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- EDGAR CROUSE DIES SUDDENLY HERE SATURDAY
Edgar A. Crouse, 71, manager of the Gettysburg office of the Pennsylvania Bureu of Employment Security, and former cashier of the First National Bank, died suddenly at 2:10 o;clock Saturday afternoon at his home 140 Seminary Avenue of a heart attack.
Mr. Crouse had been in usual health and had been up town in the morning, at 2 o'clock he went to his room to lie down as was his custom on Saturday afternoons. He was stricken and died with in a few minutes.
Born in Littlestown, Mr. Crouse was a son of the late Charles and Sarah Schwartz Crouse. He attended schools in Littlestown, the Gettysburg Academy and Gettysburg College, graduating from the later with the calss of 1903.
He was employed by the Littlestown Savings Institution for a year and then came to the First National here, retiring in 1925 as cashier after 21 years' services.
Mr. Crouse was then associated with a bank in Haarrisburg for two years before accepting a position in the department of revenue and later the Bureau of Employment Security.
He was transferred to the Gettysburg office in 1940 and was made it's manager in 1944.
He waas a member of Christ Lutheran Church where he was active in Sunday School work: a member of Good Samartan Lodge No. 336 F and AM of which he was a past master, member of the Shrine and Consistory, Harrisburg, the Gettysburg Rotary Club; Adams County Historical Society and Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity.
He is survived by his wife Mary J Sieber Crouse, to whom he was married 46 years: one daughter, Mrs. Laqurence P. Parish, Taneytown, and two grandchildren, Mary Linda and Bradey Parish, Taneytown.
Funeral services at the Bender Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock Rev. Wallace E. Fisher, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, officiating. Interment with grave side masonic rites in Evergreen Cemetery.
Obit in the Gettysburg Times, Monday, March 17, 1952.
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1880 - 1952 (71 years)
Henry Crouse, b. 1 Jan 1775, d. 1 Dec 1817 (Age 42 years) (Great Grandfather)
Charles Crouse, b. 23 Feb 1833, Maryland 
, d. 29 Nov 1908 (Age 75 years) 