Melvin
H. Youndt
"Jake"
November
23, 1919 April
12, 2005 
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Remembering
"Jake" with Love...
Melvin
H. “Jake” Youndt, 85, formerly of
Denver
,
Lancaster
County
, died Tuesday afternoon, April 12, 2005, at 2:20 PM in
Fairmount Homes, Farmersville,
Lancaster
County
, where he resided since June 1999.
Born November 23, 1919, in Fivepointville,
Lancaster
County
, he was a son of the late Raymond and Susie (Good) Youndt.
His wife, Esther M. (Leinbach) Youndt, died May 29,
1999. He had
retired from Good’s Potato Chips, Adamstown, and had worked
earlier for Elmer Brendle Masonry, Fivepointville and Bollman
Hat Company, Adamstown. Jake
was an Army veteran of World War II, a member of the Adamstown
VFW, enjoyed fishing, hunting, wood burning and visiting his
cabin in
Lycoming
County
. Surviving:
son, Clifford L., (Audrey Reddig) Youndt, Reamstown;
daughter, Joanne F. (Clarence Lynn) Gantz, Ephrata; 6
grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren; sisters, Hazel Martin,
Lititz; Erla (Eugene) Beiler, Lela (Henry) Horning, &
Lillian Weber, all Mohnton; Ruth Ann (Lamar) Hollinger,
Myerstown; Harriet (Paul) Brackbill, Lancaster; Grace (Irvin)
Horning, Ephrata & Irene Horst, Millersville; brothers,
Samuel (Janet Hurst) Weber, Denver; Richard (Barbara Martin)
Weber, Wellsboro; & George Weber, Ephrata.
He was predeceased by brothers, Carl, Clair & Leon
Youndt.
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