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     Charles Edwin Klinger was born on 20 May 1879, Jordan Township, Northumberland County, PA.^3,4,2 He married Tillie May Knerr, daughter of Henry S. Knerr and Sarah P. Henninger, circa 1904.⁵ Charles, who lived in Herndon, PA, was a Jury Commissioner, for Northumberland County, PA and a salesman. He ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1944, losing to incumbent Republican Ivor D. Fenton.^6,7,2
Newspaper obituary:
Charles E. Klinger, 81, Herndon, died at the Jacob's Nursing Home, Selinsgrove R. D. 1, at 11 a.m. Sunday [May 1, 1960]. He had been resident at the nursing home for 15 days. Prior to that he had been a patient in the Sunbury Community Hospital and later at Geisinger Hospital, Danville, since the middle of February.
Mr. Klinger was a son of the late Emmanuel and Elizabeth Bohner Klinger. He had been a salesman for Ginn and Company, New York Publishing firm for 35 years. He had taught in the Northumberland County schools for 17 years before that time.
He was a participating member of the Democratic party for a number of years; was a past master of Herndon Lodge 702, P. and A. M., a member of the Herndon Fire Company, and member of Zion Lutheran Church of Herndon.
Mr. Klinger had announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination, at the April 26 primaries, for Representative of the 12th Congressional District, but suffered a stroke several days before the deadline for filing petitions for the nomination.
He had served as burgess of Herndon, assessor of Jackson Township, and as jury commissioner, holding each position for two terms. In 1944 he unsuccessfully opposed incumbent Rep. Ivor D. Fenton, Republican, of Mahanoy City for the congressional post.
Surviving are one daughter, Marian, Mrs. J. R. Derrick, Wilmington, Del., and one son, Russell E., of Levittown, Pa; three grandchildren; 3 great grand­children; two brothers, John, of Phoenix, Ariz., and Henry, of
Herndon; one sister, Mrs. Joseph Bonawitz, Berrysburg.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, from the Rothermel Funeral Home, Herndon. Burial was made in the Stone Valley Cemetery, Dalmatia R. D. Rev. Mr. J. M. Singer, Herndon, officiated.
Masonic rites were observed in the funeral home Tuesday evening at 8:30.⁸
Charles Edwin Klinger died on 1 May 1960, Jacobs Nursing Home, Penn Township, Snyder County, PA, at age 80.^3,2 He was buried at Zion (Stone Valley) Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery, Hickory Corners, Lower Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, PA.³