HarrisburgJoseph Randall Sleek, 69, of Harrisburg, joined the Lord on May 11, 2021, surrounded by his loving family.
Joseph was born June 6, 1951, in New Paris, to the late Joseph Riley Sleek and Doris Sleek.
After graduating from Chestnut Ridge High School, Joe attended Lycoming College, where he obtained a degree in accounting. Joe worked as a board of appeals member for the PA Department of Revenue for 35 years.
After retirement, he volunteered for Meals on Wheels, the Central PA Food Bank and the Mission trip with his church to Tennessee. Joe enjoyed playing golf and poker with friends. An avid traveler, he had the opportunity to visit many countries after retirement. He was a lifelong Steelers and Pirates fan. In his younger years, he took pleasure in helping to coach his sonâs various sports activities.
May 12, 2021
CANFIELD With great sadness, his family announces that David E. Fisher, 83, crossed over to be with the Lord on Saturday, May 8, 2021, after a sudden illness. He was surrounded by love.
David was born April 10, 1938, in Youngstown, the son of Cliff and Loretta Summers Fisher.
He received his bachelor’s degree in finance from Youngstown State University and retired in 2012 from a lifelong career as a Realtor and developer in the area. Dave served his country in the U.S. Army before working in the banking industry and later joining his father in the family business.
He loved his family, friends and his country.
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Long, long ago, in the moss-encrusted year of 1967 when Shakespeare was still on high school reading lists and most of the population was capable of recognizing simple literary allusions an obscure left-wing writer named Barbara Garson enjoyed her fifteen minutes of fame by attacking President Lyndon Johnson and his long-suffering wife in a lightweight but heavy-handed parody of “Macbeth.”
She called it “MacBird” and the cast of characters was headed by Lord and Lady MacBird, a thinly-disguised homicidal duo based on Lyndon and “Ladybird” Johnson, then at the height of their unpopularity. It was rude, crude and not particularly funny, but the liberal media, most of which had turned on LBJ by then, lapped it up. Casting the Johnsons as the Macbeths in 1967 was stretching it. But 26 years later, a gruesome twosome moved into the White House that came a lot closer. Bill and Hillary Clinton really could pass for a dumbed-down, updated version of the Sh
by Jayantha Gunasekera, PC
November 22, 1963 is a day of sad remembrance for the Americans because it was on that fateful day that their beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK), was shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald who concealed himself in the Texas School Book Depository to carry out this dastardly act.
President Kennedy, with his wife, Jackie, and Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie, were in a motorcade, traveling in an open hooded presidential limousine (a Ford Lincoln Continental Convertible) driven by Agent Bill Greer of the Secret Service when Oswald, a superb sniper fired at the back of Kennedy’s head. There was no reason for the President’s Security Officers to even dream that Kennedy’s life would be in danger as he was a very popular President, ushering in a peaceful and prosperous era reminiscent of the legendary Camelot.