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Subject: [PANORTHU-L] REV. LLOYD SEILER SR.Re: My Grandmother's Family
Date: 7 May 2002 16:46:50 -0600

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I'm doing some research on some of my fathers friends from World War II in Europe. Lloyd Seiler was known to my father as Captain Seiler. Is there any chance that he could be ralated to your family? I think that my dad would like to talk to some of his survivors.


REV. LLOYD SEILER SR.
Services for the Rev. Lloyd Henderson Seiler Sr., 81, will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, 2001, at Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church with the Rev. Debra J. Boynton officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery directed by Norton Funeral Home. Visitation will be tonight, Wednesday, from 7 to 9 at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Our Shepherd Lutheran Church, 1410 W. BoBo Newsome Highway, Hartsville, S.C. 29550.

Rev. Seiler died Jan. 14. He was born in Northumberland, Pa., a son of the late Rev. George H. Seiler and Anna Yeager Seiler. He was a graduate of Gettysburg College and the Lutheran Seminary. He served four years in the U.S. Army during WWII and served as battalion commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division. He was wounded thrice and received two Purple Hearts in the Normandy and Northern France Campaigns.

He was a Lutheran pastor for over 50 years having served Lutheran parishes in Senoia, Ga., Oglethorpe, Ga., Rossille, Ga., Starkville, Miss., Silver Run, Md., Fairfield, Pa. and Boalsburg, Pa. He was a member of the Hartsville Lions Club, American Legion, 112th Infantry Regiment Association, 40/8 National Box Car Association, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Chaplain of the Pee Dee Rifles Camp 1419 S.C.V. and the 8th S.C. Vols. Inf. Reenactment Unit. He was a 32nd degree Mason Scottish Rite with membership in the Valley of Williamsport Consistory of Pennsylvania and Travelers Rest Lodge 65 of Georgia. He was vice president of the Pee Dee Fellowship Branch of the Lutheran Brotherhood.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Flora Harrell Lee Seiler of Hartsville; one son, Lloyd H. Seiler Jr. of Hartsville; one daughter and son-in-law, Wilhelmina S. and William Walton Luther Sr., of Hartsville; two grandsons, William Walton Luther III and John Roland Luther, both of Hartsville; and one sister, Mrs. Ruth Summers of Gettysburg, Pa.

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