Bernard A.
Cohenour, 81, of Mount
Union, died on Saturday,
Jan. 17, 1998 at the J.C.
Blair Memorial Hospital,
Huntingdon.
Funeral services were held
on Tuesday, Jan. 20, at the
Martin R. Brown Funeral
Home, Orbisonia, with the
Rev. Dr. Kenneth Grundon
officiating. Interment was
in the Jordan Cemetery,
Orbisonia R.D.
Born Nov. 11, 1916, in
Cromwell Township,
Huntingdon County, he was
the son of the late Samuel
and Blanche (Waite) Cohenour.
He was united in marriage to
the former Esther I. Workman
on Dec. 14, 1939, at
Orbisonia.
Surviving are his wife, at
their home, and three
children: James A. Cohenour
and Eileen C. Smith, both of
Mount Union and Richard P.
Cohenour, Three Springs,
R.D.; five grandchildren,
and one great-grandson.
Mr. Cohenour is also
survived by one sister, Tola
Cornelius, of Mount Union.
He was preceded in death by
eight brothers and five
sisters: Roy, Cecil,
Charles, Lawrence, Harry,
John, Orville, and Marvin
Cohenour (infant); Alice
Wilson, Ida Hamman, Flora
Booher, Daisy Lender, and
Charlotte Cohenour (infant).
Mr. Cohenour had been a
member of the First United
Methodist Church, Mount
Union, and was a member of
the Herman Smith Sunday
School Class. In his early
years, he was a member of
the Sugar Grove Church of
the Brethren, Three Springs
R.D.
He was also a member of the
Mount Union Lodge #688, F. &
A. M.; Harrisburg
Consistory; Jaffa Shrine,
Altoona; Tall Cedars of
Lebanon, Mifflintown; life
member of the Simpson-Hunt
Post 107, American Legion,
Mount Union; Life member of
the Huntingdon County
Firemen's Association;
member of the Mount Union
Volunteer Fire Co., life
member of the National Rifle
Association; former Boy
Scout leader for Troop #77,
Mount Union; and a former
director of the Huntingdon
County Soil Conservation
Service.
He retired in 1972 from the
Mount Union Area High School
District after 37 years of
service as a teacher. Prior
to that at the Valley Point
one room school in Blacklog
Valley. During the years,
Mr. Cohenour also operated
Cohenour's Refrigeration
Service.
Mr. Cohenour was a veteran
of World War II, serving
with the U.S. Navy in the
Seebees, in the South
Pacific, New Guinea, and the
Philippines.
