Rev. Harold Alanzo Ahalt ^{1 2 3}

  Death Notes:

Name: Harold Ahalt
Given Name: Harold
Surname: Ahalt
Event Type: Death
Event Date: Aug 1975
Event Place: Plant City, Hillsborough, Florida
Event Place (Original): Plant City, Hillsborough, Florida
Age: 70
Birth Date: 21 Nov 1905

Citing this Record
"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JP6C-P57 : 4 December 2020), Harold Ahalt, Aug 1975; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
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  Noted events in his life were:

• He worked as a Minister. ¹

• He was buried after 24 Aug 1975 in the Zion Lutheran Cemetery in Middletown, MD.

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• His obituary was published in The Frederick Post on 26 Aug 1975 in Frederick, MD.

³ Rev. Harold A. Ahalt, retired Lutheran minister of 3731 Mainland Boulevard, North Pinellas Park, Fla., died Sunday evening, Aug. 24, at the Monroe County General Hospital, East Stroudsburg, Pa.

He was vacationing at the home of his daughter. Born in Middletown, Nov. 21, 1905, he was the son of the late Alonza J. and Hattie M. Flook Ahalt.

Rev. Ahalt graduated from Middletown High School in 1923, Gettysburg College in 1928 and the Gettysburg Theological Seminary in 1931 when he was ordained to the Lutheran ministry.

His pastorates were from 1931 to 1940 at Union Deposit, Pa.; 1040 to 1951, Watsontown, Pa.; 1951 to Port Charlotte, Fla., as a mission developer, 1961 organized the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Port Charlotte, serving there until his retirement in 1971, when he moved to Pinellas Park, Fla.

He is survived by his wife, Margaret E. Bittle Ahalt, two daughters, Mrs. Lenore Bandler, Ithaca, NY; and Dr. Janet Rodgers, New York City; two grandchildren, Steven and Robert Bandler; one brother, Edgar L. Ahalt, Hyattsville.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 27 at 11 a.m. from the Zion Lutheran Church in Middletown, with Dr. Emmanuel J. Hoover officiating, assisted by Dr. George E. Little, a classmate from York, Pa.

Interment will be in the Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Middletown.

The body may be viewed at the church one hour prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, 49th Street, Pinellas Park, Fla., 33565. Arrangements are being made by the Bittle Funeral Home of Myersville.

(Source: The Frederick Post, Frederick, MD, 26 Aug 1975)
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Harold married Margaret Lenore Bittle, daughter of Lawson Franklin Bittle and Loulie Asbelan Wachtel, on 14 May 1931.¹ (Margaret Lenore Bittle was born on 12 Jun 1905 in Myersville, MD,^{1 4 5} died on 3 May 1979 in Newfield, NY ^{4 5} and was buried after 3 May 1979 in Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Middletown, MD ⁵.)