Harry H. Hubbard

Harry H. Hub­bard, 85 of Sun­bury, passed away Thurs­day (Sept. 8, 2011) at the home of his daugh­ter in John­stown fol­low­ing a nine-month illness.

Born in Hebron on Dec. 1, 1925, he was a son of the late James and Geor­gia (Rosen­baum) Hub­bard. A life­long res­i­dent of the Sun­bury and Galena areas, he was a US Army vet­eran of WWII and a proud mem­ber of the 66th Divi­sion and the famed Black Panthers.

For more than 35 years he worked at Galena Shale Tile & Brick Com­pany, pri­mar­ily as a fork­lift oper­a­tor. At his work­ing prime, he loaded 200,000 bricks daily on semi trucks. In fact when he would miss work it was noticed that it took two work­ers to per­form the same work load. He earned the nick­name of “Hot Meat Harry” because of his famous hot sausage and pork. The word ornery only scratches the sur­face when describ­ing his per­son­al­ity. He thought there was noth­ing bet­ter than a good bag of pork rinds and blue­grass music. Using his words and with a smile; “it’s not music if it is not bluegrass.”

Because of his friendly nature, Harry was known as Dad to many more than his own. He mar­ried the love of his life Mary Alice (Dun­can) in 1947; they shared 58 won­der­ful years and together raised a lov­ing fam­ily of whom they were most proud. Mary passed away in 2006.

He leaves behind his trea­sures and lov­ing fam­ily of sons: Phillip (Anna) of Sun­bury, Carl (Lisa) of Mar­ion, Thomas (Marla) of Eagle Rock, VA, daugh­ters: Alice (Leroy)Sheets of Cen­ter­burg, Tena (Doug) Stringer of John­stown, son-in-law: Larry Jones, daughter-in-law: Edna Hub­bard Stan­ley of Sun­bury, numer­ous grand­chil­dren and great-grandchildren, broth­ers: Carl (Patri­cia) Hub­bard of Marengo, Lawrence (Sue) Hub­bard of Card­ing­ton, sis­ters: Mary Clark of Delaware, Ruby (Everett) Hel­ton of Sun­bury, Lola (Roy) Page of Bris­tol, Tenn.

In addi­tion to his wife and par­ents he was also pre­ceded in death by son Audry Hub­bard in 2006, daugh­ter Arnetta Jones in 2002, brother Dal­las Hub­bard in 2001, and sis­ter Juanita Phillips in 2001.

Friends may call from 2 to 6 p.m. Sun­day at the DeVore-Snyder Funeral Home, Ohio 3 at 61, Sun­bury where ser­vices will be held at 11 a.m. Mon­day with Hos­pice Chap­lain Tom Myers offi­ci­at­ing. Bur­ial will fol­low in Galena Ceme­tery with mil­i­tary hon­ors pro­vided by the Delaware County Vet­er­ans Association.

Memo­r­ial con­tri­bu­tions can be made to Hos­pice of Cen­tral Ohio, P.O. Box 430, Newark, OH 43058.

Con­do­lences may be expressed at snyderfuneralhomes.com.

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