Poetic Obituaries: [John Stangler] dealt with his large family

with some hollering but mostly with humor, and treated everyone individually, his son said.

Mr. Stangler was an amateur poet, ace crossword-puzzle solver and avid reader, his son said, and was still playing an excellent game of pinochle a week before he died.

from The Philadelphia Inquirer: John Stangler, 85, decorated veteran

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