McCune, Joseph Carl - 8/20/1954

Services are Held for J. Carl McCune

Local Man Dies of Heart Attack White at Work on Friday

Was Well Known

Funerla services were held Monday at 3 p.m., at the Van Scyoe funeral home in Shipensburg ,for Joseph Carl McCune, 51, who died unexpectedly Friday while at work at the Valley Baking compnay plant on South Penn st., Shippensburg. Death was casued by a coronary occlusion.

Mr. McCune, who lived at 59 West King st., Shippensburg, had been helping at the plant for several weeks, while regular employees were on vacation.

He was the son of the late Joseph Calvin and Mary Margaret Foust McCune and was born near Greenvillage on Nov. 9, 1902.

He was a member of the Cumberland Valley Hose company of Shippensburg, the Cumberland County Firemen's Association, the Shippensburg Fish and Game association, the Loyal Order of the Moose of Carlisle, the Minnequa club of Shippensburg, the American Legion home association and of the F. and M. 338 of New Albany, Ind.

Mr. McCune atended the Shippensburg public schools and at the time of his death was Democratic committeeman fpr the West Ward

He is survived by three siters; Miss Laura B. McCune of 59 West King st., Shippensburg; Mrs. Charles E. McClary of Chambersburg R.R. 5, and Mrs. Grace McCune Greeger of Havertown, PA.

Rev. John F. Sammel, pastor of the memorial Lutheran church of Shippensburg, offic iated at the services Monday afternoonn. Burial was in Spring Hill cemetery.

On teh maternal side Mr. McCune was a descendant of the Beetham family of Cumberland county an on the paternal side of the Chambers family of Chambersburg.1

• 1. The News Chronicle (Shippensburg), 8/24/1954