Times Leader
Wilkes-Barre, PA
Saturday, February 03, 1996

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Alva Kille
Feb. 1, 1996
Alva Kille, 90, of RR1 Benton, Raven Creek, died Thursday at the Bloomsburg
Hospital

Born Oct. 12, 1905, in Lopez, Sullivan County, he was the son of the
late Thomas and Minnie VanHorn Kille.  He attended Ricketts and Lopez
schools and had lived in Raven Creek since 1945.  He had been employed by
the Benton Foundry as a molder for 30 years before retiring in the early
1970s. Previously, he worked for the Lehigh Valley Railroad and later for
the Berwick American Car and Foundry Corp.  He was an avid sportsman and
enjoyed trout fishing in Columbia and Sullivan counties.  He was preceded
in death by his wife, the former Margaret A. Casselberry, on June 30, 1992;
brothers, Lewis, Noel, Lee and Charles Kille, and a sister, Helen Kille; a
son, Thomas C. Kille, on Jan. 23, 1983; a grandson, Steve B. Kocher, on April
12, 1995; a granddaughter, Deborah J. Kille, on Feb. 25, 1994.  Surviving are
his children, Mrs. Walter (Helen) Kropiewnicki, Jack D. Kille and Shirley
A. Kocher, all of RR1 Benton; 11 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren;
one great-great grandchild.  Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday from
the McMichael Funeral Home, RR2 Benton, with the Rev. Ron Walker, pastor of
the Bible Baptist Church of Benton, officiating.  Interment will be in the
Hamline Cemetery.  Friends may call from 1 p.m. until service time Monday.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Hamline
Cemetery Association, c/o Dean Hess, RR 1, Box 179, Stillwater, 17878.

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