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Richard A. Dickison was born on 21 June 1932 in Dingman Ferry, Pike, Pennsylvania.¹ He died on 27 November 1970, at age 38, in Dingmans Ferry, Pike, Pennsylvania.¹ He was buried in Sand Hill Cemetery, Shoemakers, Monroe, Pennsylvania.¹

US Army- Korea.¹ He was killed by a 4,300 high voltage transmission line in Dingman's Ferry while clearing a fire lane with a bulldozer. He was veteran in the U.S. Army and served in the Korean War.

Source: Article published in the Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, PA, November 28, 1970, page 11.

Boyd K. Dickison was born in 1963.² He died in 1983, at age ~20.^1,2 He was buried in Sand Hill Cemetery, Shoemakers, Monroe, Pennsylvania.²

Ruth Jane Howey was born on 6 November 1917 in Pike County, Pennsylvania.^1,2 She died in August 1982, at age 64, in Bushkill, Pike, Pennsylvania.^1,2 She was buried in Sand Hill Cemetery, Shoemakers, Monroe, Pennsylvania.¹

Lilliam H. (Peg) Schuppe was born on 21 May 1918.² She died on 23 December 1991, at age 73, in Bushkill, Pike, Pennsylvania.² She was buried in Sand Hill Cemetery, Shoemakers, Monroe, Pennsylvania.²

Maude Helen Bosler was born on 20 July 1928 in West Albany, Albany, New York.² She was married on 27 September 1947 in Rensselaer, Rensselaer, New York.³ She and Stewart Eli Schoonover were married on 22 August 1992.¹ She died on 20 January 2009, at age 80, in Stroudsburg, Monroe, Pennsylvania.² She was buried in Sand Hill Cemetery, Shoemakers, Monroe, Pennsylvania.²

Maude Helen Bosler Schoonover was born in West Albany, New York on July 20, 1928. She attended schools in the Rensselaer School District. She married Emmett Bensley, Jr., a native of Dingmans Ferry, Pike county Pennsylvania, on September 27, 1947. The couple took up residency in Bushkill in 1947. They owned their own business and were active volunteers in the Bushkill community. Emmett 'Ben' died suddenly in 1988. Maude continuied working until 1991 when she retired from Sparkamatic. She was a member of the American Legion Newman Smith Post No. 514, Bushkill Ladies Auxillary, where she served as a past president. She was a volunteer in the Bushkill Emergency Corps and a a long time member of the Reformed Church of Bushkill.

While recuperating from breast cancer surgery, Stuart Schoonover began courting her. They were married in the Reformed Church of Bushkill on August 22, 1992. They lived their retirement years in Bushkill. Stuart preceded her in death in 2008. Although Maude did not have any children of her own, she loved her numerous nieces and nephews very much.

Services were held on Monday, January 26th in the Reformed Church of Bushkill. Interment was in the Sand Hill Cemetery, Shoemakers. She was buried next to Emmett Bensley, her first husband.

Jeanette (Jeanne) Elizabeth Schoonover was born on 25 October 1925 in Pennsylvania.² She died on 20 January 2011, at age 85, in Novato, Marin, California.