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HARRY RICHARD BONIKER PHYLLIS VIVIAN CROSSLAND
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NAME(S) ON TILE:                 HARRY RICHARD BONIKER

                                                    PHYLLIS VIVIAN CROSSLAND

 

DONOR NAME(S):                   BARB, RICH AND RAY BONIKER

 

 

With this tile

we honor the memory of our parents,

Harry Richard Boniker and Phyllis Vivian Crossland,

and our entire family tree.

Celebrating 200+ years in Pennsylvania.

 

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From Germany, England and Eire they sailed

across the restless sea.

Dreamers, paupers, sons and daughters,

folks like you and me.

 

They farmed the land, they worked the rails,

the factories and the mills.

On battlegrounds they fought our wars;

Blood, sweat, and tears they spilled.

 

Brick by brick they built our house;

Leaf by leaf, our family tree.

Day by day, unknown to them,

they left a legacy.

 

For drop by drop they gave the blood

that flows within our veins.

Because they lived, we stand today

to celebrate their names:

 

 

Barnhart, Boniker, Crossland, Frankhouse, McMahon

Geller, Keller, Owens, Rice, Ringler,

Sleesman, Wright, Zeilman

 

 

Barb, Rich and Ray Boniker

May 7, 2000