Reading Times/Reading Eagle
25 May 2005
Reading, PA


Lawrence R. Sittler, 89, formerly of New Tripoli, Lehigh County, died May 22 in Laurel Center Genesis Elder Care, Tilden Township, where he had been a resident.

Born in New Tripoli, he was a son of the late Charles and Helen (Fister) Sittler.

Sittler had been employed for 22 years as an assembly-line worker in the ice cream department of Lehigh Valley Dairy, retiring in 1978.

He was a member of New Life Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Tripoli.

Sittler was an Army veteran of World War II.

He is survived by a brother, George, Trexlertown, and a sister, Marion (Sittler) Miller, Bernville.

Services will be Thursday at 11 a.m. in Keller Funeral Homes Inc., New Tripoli.