Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Firestone, Ernest H.  December 31, 2011
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  Published in Lebanon Daily News on January 3, 2012 
  Ernest H. Firestone 
  
  CORNWALL Ernest H. Firestone, 75, died Saturday, December 31, 2011, from 
  injuries sustained in an automobile accident on Rte. 22, East Hanover Twp. He 
  was the husband of Shirley A. (Buchter) Firestone, who died on January 1, 
  2012. Born in Lebanon, on July 28, 1936, he was the son of the late Ernest W. 
  and Lillian N. (Keller) Firestone. A 1954 graduate of Lebanon High School, he 
  was a 1958 graduate of Albright College, Reading, and a graduate of Temple 
  University, where he earned a master's degree in education. A star athlete in 
  basketball, tennis, and cross country at Lebanon High School, he was recently 
  inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame. He began his career with the 
  Cornwall-Lebanon School District in 1958, first teaching at Cornwall High 
  School and later Cedar Crest High School. Over a period of 28 years at Cedar 
  Crest High School, he served as the head coach of boys and girls basketball 
  and tennis and served as Athletic Director. In 1981, he was inducted into the 
  Central Chapter of PA Sports Hall of Fame in recognition of his coaching 
  accomplishments. He led the girls basketball team to the 1990-1991 District 
  III AAAA championship and advanced to the Eastern semi-finals of the state. He 
  was a member of the United Methodist Church of the Good Shepherd, Lebanon. He 
  taught Sundau School for many years at First Evangelical Congregational 
  Church. Ernie enjoyed spending time with his family and enjoyed meeting his 
  friends over coffee at McDonald's every morning. He is survived by daughters, 
  Wendy, wife of Doug Wisehaupt of Mechanicsburg, and Marta, wife of Patrick 
  O'Brien of Schwenksville; grandchildren, Grant and Paige Wisehaupt, and 
  Patrick and Kelly O'Brien; sister, Susan, wife of Richard L. Kline, Sr. of 
  Lebanon; brother, Ronald, husband of JoAnn Firestone of Palmyra; and several 
  nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held Friday at 11 a.m. from the 
  United Methodist Church of the Good Shepherd, Lebanon. There will be no 
  viewing. A visitation will be held Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Friday at 10 
  a.m. at the church. Interment at Christ Lutheran Cemetery, Stouchsburg.  Grose 
  Funeral Home, Myerstown, is entrusted with the arrangements. 
   
  Published in Lebanon Daily News on January 3, 2012 
   
  
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