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2/23/1990 The Intelligencer,Doylestown, Pa. newspaper:
Florence M Reichert.
Florence M. Reichert of Villas, N. J., formerly of Line Lexington, died Wednesday at Grand
View Hospital, West Rockhill. She was 73.
She was the wife of Theodore Reichert, Jr., of Lansdale, who died in 1969.
Born in Ravine, Schuylkill County, she was a daughter of the late Andrew and Carrie Yorty
Zimmerman.
Mrs. Reichert was a seamstress in the clothing industry all her life and was employed by
many clothing manufacturers in the North Penn area. She was a member of the Amalgamsted
Clothing Workers of America of Allentown.
She retired in 1970 from Goldsmith Clothing Manufacturer of Souderton.
She had been a resident of Cape May County, N. J., since 1968, but spent winters with her
children in the North Penn area. She was a member of the Cape Island Baptist Church and
was active in the choir and as a deaconess.
She is survived by two daughters, Florence Raab of Silverdale and Joan Shade of Chalfont;
a son, Theodore, Jr., of Lansdale; four grandchildren, four great-grandchildren; three
brothers, Andrew Zimmerman, Roy Zimmerman, and Warren Zimmerman, all of Pine Grove,
Schuylkill County; and four sisters, Lucy Beach and Miriam Beach, both of Llewellyn,
Schuylkill County, Anna Heffner of Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County, and Jenny Ross of
Cammal, Lycoming County.
Services will be at 11 a. m. Monday at the Larry L. Anders Funeral Home, 130 E. Broad St.,
Souderton.