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Charles
W. Mooney Jr., 85, of Carlton Drive, died of natural causes Thursday at
home.
Mooney was president of Buck Company Inc.
Foundry, Quarryville, from 1971 until his retirement in 1988. He
was vice president works manager of Hamilton (Ohio) Foundry Company from
1965-71 and worked for the Olney Foundry division of Link Belt Company,
Philadelphia, from 1934-65.
Mooney was a member of Highland
Presbyterian Church, Mount Moriah Lodge 155, Free & Accepted Masons,
Lancaster Kiwanis Club, Caper Club and Olde Hickory Golf Club.
He also was a member of American
Foundrymen's Association and Ductile Iron Society; past chairman of
American Foundrymen's Association, Philadelphia chapter, past national
director of Gray Iron Foundrymen's Association' past member and
chairman, Foundry Educational Foundation Advisory Committee to Penn
State University group; and past treasurer, vice president and president
of Ductile Iron Society.
Mooney received several service awards
from the foundry industry and was an active speaker at foundry industry
meetings.
He graduated from Abington (Pa.) High
School in 1934 and continued his education at Temple University Evening
School and Penn State University Extension Center.
Born in North Glenside, he was the son of
the late Charles W. Sr. and Josephine Jenkins Mooney.
He was married 35 years in March to
Phyllis R. Goodrich Mooney. His first wife, Elsie Kohler Mooney,
died in 1964.
Surviving are two daughters, Suzanne J.
Lewis, married to Steven Thiel of Cincinnati, and Barbara R. Mooney of
Salt Lake city; a son, Ted A. Schmitt of Jacksonville, Fl; and five
grandchildren.
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