TITLE:  Clara E. Challenger

SOURCE: The New and Reporter, June 27, 2001

SUBMITTED: The News and Reporter

FORMATTED: Kim Grissom, June 2001

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Mrs. Clara E. Challenger
CHESTER – Memorial services for Mrs. Clara E. Challenger of 815 
Pleasant Grove Road will be conducted at 3 p.m. today, Wednesday, 
June 27, 2001, at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Sylvester 
Mayfield will deliver the discourse and burial will follow in Benson 
Cemetery, Old York Road. Mrs. Challeger died Saturday, June 23, 2001, 
at Chester County Hospital. Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., she was a daughter 
of the late Gertrude Johnson Thompson and the late Melvin Thompson. 
She was baptized as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses on April 1, 1948.
Survivors include two sons, Ormando Challenger of Brooklyn, N.Y. and 
Paul Charles Challenger of Chester; three daughters, Lenora Challenger,
Claudia Rouse and Shirley Febin, all of Chester; a brother, Paul 
Thompson of Bronx, N.Y.; 14 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her husband, Charles Buchanan Challenger.
The family will receive friends at the home. Christopher King’s Funeral
Home, 703 Old York Road, is in charge of arrangements.
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