OBIT: Cleo A. Bortner, 2005, New Oxford, Adams County, PA

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York Daily Record: February 2, 2005 
 
Cleo A. Bortner NEW OXFORD 
 
Cleo A. Bortner, 83, formerly of York, died Monday, January 31, 2005, at the  Brethren Home 
Community in New Oxford. He was the husband of Hazel M. (Bell) Zumbrum Bortner who he married 
on June 11, 1988, and Anna Margaret (Crist) Bortner who died in 1985.  Funeral service will be 
held Thursday at Irwin Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Spring Grove, with his pastor, the 
Rev. Mervin L. Wunderlich, officiating. He will be laid to rest at St. Paul's (Wolf's) Church 
Cemetery in West Manchester Township.   
Born November 27, 1921, in Glen Rock, he was a son of the late Allen Rohrbaugh and Lanta Marie 
(Shearer) Bortner.   He was a 1938 graduate of the former Codorus Township High School. Mr. 
Bortner retired as a chemist at P.H. Glatfelter Company.  He proudly served his country during 
WW II as a Corporal with the U.S.  Army Air Corps, and was stationed in England.   
In addition to his wife, Hazel, Mr. Bortner leaves four stepchildren, C. Scott Zumbrum of York, 
Randy C. Zumbrum of Shrewsbury, Gregg E. Zumbrum of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and Debra L. 
Shermeyer of Dover; four step grandchildren; three step  great-grandchildren; a sister,  
Madeline L. Harbold of York; a  stepbrother, Laverne Bortner  of Spring Grove; two stepsisters, 
Ardella Schuchart and  Anna Mae Case, both of York;  and many nieces and nephews.  He was 
preceded in death by a stepsister, Geraldine Cosgrove.