Angus LeRoy Lightner^[1]

1885 - 1955  (69 years)

• Name	Angus LeRoy Lightner
  Birth	6 Dec 1885	Cuba. Jefferson Co, , , . Missouri
  Gender	Male
  AFN	19WL-CP5
  Death	25 Apr 1955	Orlando, Orange County, Florida, United States
  Person ID	I19WL-CP	Our Family History
  Last Modified	24 Mar 2024

  
  

  Father	Zachariah Franklin Lightner,   b. 26 Apr 1861, Tulpehocken Township, , Pennsylvania, USA d. 07 Nov 1933, Manoa, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Hannah Gertrude Muir,   b. 27 Jan 1850, Frankford, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States d. 27 Dec 1945, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 95 years)
  Marriage	10 Oct 1882
  Family ID	F8997958	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Grace Darling Thompson,   b. 24 May 1893, Gibraltar, , Berks, Pa d. 23 Sep 1993, Elgin, Kane County, Illinois, United States (Age 100 years)
  Marriage	14 Jun 1916	Thompson Home South 6th Street. Reading, , Berks Co., Pennsylvania
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth May Lightner,   b. 17 May 1917, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States d. 20 Jun 2007, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, United States (Age 90 years) + 2. Hannah Margaret Lightner,   b. 24 Oct 1918, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States d. 12 Nov 2001, Monongahela, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 83 years)   3. Angus LeRoy Lightner, Jr,   b. 26 Apr 1921, Wyomissing, Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States d. 08 May 2017, Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, United States (Age 96 years) + 4. Barbara Anne Lightner,   b. 28 Jun 1927, East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States d. 02 Sep 2011, Woodstock, McHenry County, Illinois, United States (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F8997957	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Dec 2007

  
  

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  Death - 25 Apr 1955 - Orlando, Orange County, Florida, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  Angus LeRoy Lightner 1885-1955

  
  

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  ANGUS LeROY LIGHTNER was born 6 December 1885 in Cuba, Crawford County, Missouri to Zachariah Franklin Lightner and Hannah Gertrude Muir and was baptized at Mount Zion Methodist Church, Darby, Pennsylvania 1 October 1893. His parents moved the family to Lancaster, Pennsylvania so he could live at home while attending Franklin and Marshall College - he was just 15 when he began. Roy was a member of that college's first basketball team when it was introduced there in 1903 and he was graduated from F & M with the class of 1904. After graduation, Roy engaged in teaching for about 14 years. During that time he served variously as a member of the faculties of Massanutton Academy, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Lancaster Boys High School and the former Reading Boys High School. From 1914 to 1918, he coached Reading High School's basketball teams, and about 1916 organized the Central Pennsylvania Basketball League. Between 1915 and 1920, he won several county tennis championships in Berks and Dauphin counties. It was during this period that he met GRACE DARLING THOMPSON whom he married 14 June 1916 at Reading, Pennsylvania. With a growing family to support, Roy left teaching and in 1919 entered the employ of the Narrow Fabric Company. During the years prior to his retirement in 1951, he served successively as manager of the company's New York office from 1922 to 1932, and then as vice president in charge of sales. While working in New York, he made his home in East Orange, New Jersey and later while working in Reading, he made his home at 1524 Cleveland Avenue, Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Chairman for many years of the finance committee of St. Peter's Methodist Church in Reading, he also served both on its official board and as co-chairman of hte board of trustees. In addition, he was a member of the church's Brotherhood, and for a time was superintendent of it's Sunday school. Roy was widely known as a bridge player and was a frequent participant in contract bridge tournaments. He was a member of the Reading Rotary Club, Reading Lodge No. 549 F&AM; Rajah Temple of the Mystic Shrine; Reading Consistory, Scotish Rite Masons, and the Temple Club. Roy died 25 April 1955 in Orange Memorial Hospital, Orlando, Florida. He had been spending the winter months in that city. He was buried in Forest Hills Memorial Park, Reading. [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S01] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998). [S14] Paul Whitehouse, Ancestry.com. ANGUS LeROY LIGHTNER was born 6 December 1885 in Cuba, Crawford County, Missouri to Zachariah Franklin Lightner and Hannah Gertrude Muir and was baptized at Mount Zion Methodist Church, Darby, Pennsylvania 1 October 1893. His parents moved the family to Lancaster, Pennsylvania so he could live at home while attending Franklin and Marshall College - he was just 15 when he began. Roy was a member of that college's first basketball team when it was introduced there in 1903 and he was graduated from F & M with the class of 1904. After graduation, Roy engaged in teaching for about 14 years. During that time he served variously as a member of the faculties of Massanaoys High School and the former Reading Boys High School. From 1914 to 1918, he coached Reading High School's basketball teams, and about 1916 organized the Central Pennsylvania Basketball League. Between 1915 and 1920, he won several county tennis championships in Berks and Dauphin counties. It was during this period that he met GRACE DARLING THOMPSON whom he married 14 June 1916 at Reading, Pennsylvania. With a growing family to support, Roy left teaching and in 1919 entered the employ of the Narrow Fabric Company. During the years prior to his retirement in 1951, he served successively as manager of the company's New York office from 1922 to 1932, and then as vice president in charge of sales. While working in New York, he made his home in East Orange, New Jersey and later while working in Reading, he made his home at 1524 Cleveland Avenue, Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Chairman for many years of the finance committee of St. Peter's Methodist Church in Reading, he also served both on its official board and as co-chairman of hte board of trustees. In addition, he was a member of the church's Brotherhood, and for a time was superintendent of it's Sunday school. Roy was widely known as a bridge player and was a frequent participant in contract bridge tournaments. He was a member of the Reading Rotary Club, Reading Lodge No. 549 F&AM; Rajah Temple of the Mystic Shrine; Reading Consistory, Scotish Rite Masons, and the Temple Club. Roy died 25 April 1955 in Orange Memorial Hospital, Orlando, Florida. He had been spending the winter months in that city. He was buried in Forest Hills Memorial Park, Reading.