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Robert J. Happ

Happ—Robert J. Happ, 71, on March 26, 2019, suddenly, at home in Chalfont, Pa. Bob was born on February 16,…
Student Voices Project

Growth and Learning

I used to wrestle... One time, after losing a match, I sat back down on the bench, changing my shoes… Wielond Kirby

John Felton Gibbons

Gibbons—John Felton Gibbons, 80, on April 20, 2018, peacefully, in Albuquerque, N.M. John was born on October 6, 1937, in…
Features

Jesse Stuart’s The Thread That Runs So True

A ninth-grade assigned reading foreshadows a vocation to teach. Robert Stephen Dicken

Thomas Arthur Ryan Jr.

Ryan—Thomas Arthur Ryan Jr., 77, on October 17, 2017, in State College, Pa., of pneumonia, with his wife, Lauri, holding his…
Poetry

Passages

FJ Poetry: Perhaps my death will be like Dad’s… Marsha Foss
The author with his wife and child in a tent. Features

Farm and Community

Life on a small vegetable farm. Craig Jensen

Anne Foulke

Foulke—Anne Foulke, 90, on June 1, 2016, peacefully, in her sleep at Maria Joseph Continuing Care Community in Danville, Pa.…

Mary Lou Conrad Muhlhausen

Muhlhausen—Mary Lou Conrad Muhlhausen, 88, on March 27, 2016, in Bethlehem, Pa. Mary Lou was born on June 17, 1927,…

Ethel Anna Goerlich Trefsger

Trefsger—Ethel Anna Goerlich Trefsger, 91, on July 10, 2016, at her son’s home in Auburn, Maine. Ethel was born on…
Poetry

Heart Like a Mountain

FJ Poetry: "My grandmother had a heart like a mountain." Carol Wills
Poetry

Retirement Community

FJ Poetry: "The bridge over waning years is crease with toil" Sunshine F. Branner
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