L. Mervin Leicht, Former Body
Shop Owner, Dies at 60
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L. Mervin Leicht, the owner of Leicht Paint and Body Shop, Elizabethtown, for 23 years, died Monday night in the Baily Nursing Home, here, following a long illness.
He was 60 years old. The husband of Elizabeth McGraw Leicht, he was born in Elizabethtown, a son of the late Lewis S. and Ada Lehman Leicht. He resided at 1015 Turnpike Road.
He assumed the operation of Leicht Paint and Body Shop, 311 South Market Street in 1948. Ill health forced him to retire in 1971. The business was founded by his great grandfather in 1868 as a wagon and carriage shop.
Leicht was a member of Emanual Baptist Church, Elizabethtown, the BPOE of Middletown, and a life member of the Elizabethtown Friendship Fire Company.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by two children, Miss Mary Leicht, Lancaster, and Peter L. Leicht, at home; two sisters: Ada, wife of Merle Keilholtz, Emmittsburg, Md., and Ruth, wife of Albert Dettinger, Marietta, and a brother, Dr. Paul F. Leicht, Elizabethtown.
Funeral services will be held from the Miller Funeral Home, North Market Street, Elizabthtown, on Friday at 10:30 a.m. with the Rev. Kenneth A. Estep officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday evening. The Middletown BPOE will conduct services at 9 p.m. Thursday. Interment will be in Mount Tunnel Cemetery.
[Elizabethtown Chronicle - September 14, 1972]
Shop Owner, Dies at 60
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L. Mervin Leicht, the owner of Leicht Paint and Body Shop, Elizabethtown, for 23 years, died Monday night in the Baily Nursing Home, here, following a long illness.
He was 60 years old. The husband of Elizabeth McGraw Leicht, he was born in Elizabethtown, a son of the late Lewis S. and Ada Lehman Leicht. He resided at 1015 Turnpike Road.
He assumed the operation of Leicht Paint and Body Shop, 311 South Market Street in 1948. Ill health forced him to retire in 1971. The business was founded by his great grandfather in 1868 as a wagon and carriage shop.
Leicht was a member of Emanual Baptist Church, Elizabethtown, the BPOE of Middletown, and a life member of the Elizabethtown Friendship Fire Company.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by two children, Miss Mary Leicht, Lancaster, and Peter L. Leicht, at home; two sisters: Ada, wife of Merle Keilholtz, Emmittsburg, Md., and Ruth, wife of Albert Dettinger, Marietta, and a brother, Dr. Paul F. Leicht, Elizabethtown.
Funeral services will be held from the Miller Funeral Home, North Market Street, Elizabthtown, on Friday at 10:30 a.m. with the Rev. Kenneth A. Estep officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday evening. The Middletown BPOE will conduct services at 9 p.m. Thursday. Interment will be in Mount Tunnel Cemetery.
[Elizabethtown Chronicle - September 14, 1972]
L. Mervin Leicht, Former Body
Shop Owner, Dies at 60
******************************
L. Mervin Leicht, the owner of Leicht Paint and Body Shop, Elizabethtown, for 23 years, died Monday night in the Baily Nursing Home, here, following a long illness.
He was 60 years old. The husband of Elizabeth McGraw Leicht, he was born in Elizabethtown, a son of the late Lewis S. and Ada Lehman Leicht. He resided at 1015 Turnpike Road.
He assumed the operation of Leicht Paint and Body Shop, 311 South Market Street in 1948. Ill health forced him to retire in 1971. The business was founded by his great grandfather in 1868 as a wagon and carriage shop.
Leicht was a member of Emanual Baptist Church, Elizabethtown, the BPOE of Middletown, and a life member of the Elizabethtown Friendship Fire Company.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by two children, Miss Mary Leicht, Lancaster, and Peter L. Leicht, at home; two sisters: Ada, wife of Merle Keilholtz, Emmittsburg, Md., and Ruth, wife of Albert Dettinger, Marietta, and a brother, Dr. Paul F. Leicht, Elizabethtown.
Funeral services will be held from the Miller Funeral Home, North Market Street, Elizabthtown, on Friday at 10:30 a.m. with the Rev. Kenneth A. Estep officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday evening. The Middletown BPOE will conduct services at 9 p.m. Thursday. Interment will be in Mount Tunnel Cemetery.
[Elizabethtown Chronicle - September 14, 1972]
Shop Owner, Dies at 60
******************************
L. Mervin Leicht, the owner of Leicht Paint and Body Shop, Elizabethtown, for 23 years, died Monday night in the Baily Nursing Home, here, following a long illness.
He was 60 years old. The husband of Elizabeth McGraw Leicht, he was born in Elizabethtown, a son of the late Lewis S. and Ada Lehman Leicht. He resided at 1015 Turnpike Road.
He assumed the operation of Leicht Paint and Body Shop, 311 South Market Street in 1948. Ill health forced him to retire in 1971. The business was founded by his great grandfather in 1868 as a wagon and carriage shop.
Leicht was a member of Emanual Baptist Church, Elizabethtown, the BPOE of Middletown, and a life member of the Elizabethtown Friendship Fire Company.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by two children, Miss Mary Leicht, Lancaster, and Peter L. Leicht, at home; two sisters: Ada, wife of Merle Keilholtz, Emmittsburg, Md., and Ruth, wife of Albert Dettinger, Marietta, and a brother, Dr. Paul F. Leicht, Elizabethtown.
Funeral services will be held from the Miller Funeral Home, North Market Street, Elizabthtown, on Friday at 10:30 a.m. with the Rev. Kenneth A. Estep officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday evening. The Middletown BPOE will conduct services at 9 p.m. Thursday. Interment will be in Mount Tunnel Cemetery.
[Elizabethtown Chronicle - September 14, 1972]
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