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Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) giving as a retiree

We are seeing this email from OPM about how to continue donating through CFC as a retiree. Check the link at the end of this article

Dear Federal Annuitant:

Prior to you or your family member completing a career in public service, you may have become familiar with the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) as a way to support charities locally, nationally and internationally. However, at the time you left public service it may not have been possible to easily contribute to charities through the CFC program. Now as a Federal Retiree, you can easily support the charity or charities of your choice.

Last year, we introduced important changes to modernize the CFC program. One of those changes gave retirees and survivors the opportunity to have convenient options of contributing directly through the CFC, including through monthly annuities!

This year’s campaign theme, is Show Some Love. Federal retirees and survivors are able to support any number of the almost 8,000 charities vetted and approved to participate in the CFC campaign. Last year, Federal employees and retirees pledged more than $100 million in monetary pledges. These pledges help people and communities in need and are a reflection of the generous nature of the Federal community.

To help those in need by making a pledge, please visit the CFC’s Online Donor Pledging System.

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Philip Heine

Phil Heine passed away Monday, June 25, 2018.  He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Ilse, a son, David and wife Rebecca (Kleinfelter) of Palmyra and a daughter Lisa Landsberg and husband Rodney of Atlanta, granddaughters Alexis and Alexandra Heine and Jessica and Megan Landsberg.  Also surviving is a sister, Sharon Breen of Lansdale.  He was predeceased by his parents Howard and Helen (Smaglinski).

Phil was a member of the 193rd for 40 years and retired in 2009 having worked in Aircraft Maintenance, Secure Comm/Video shop.

There will be a Mass of Christian Burial 11:00 AM Friday, June 29, 2018 at Holy Spirit Catholic Church, 245 West Pine Street, Palmyra, PA with a celebration of life following.  Interment, with military honors, will be held 2:30 PM Friday at Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville.

You can find the full obituary at: https://www.busefuneralhome.com/notices/PhilipHoward-Heine

 

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MSgt (retired) John “Jack” Schmidt

Announcing the passing of Master Sgt (retired) John “Jack” Schmidt. Jack retired from the 193rd in 2000, he was a Graphic Artist in the Audio-Visual section. For those that remember going through the lines during our exercises and training Jack was one of the guys who made all the signs, charts and graphs. He helped make the overhead slides we used to track all the numbers and also helped with the layout of the Scope in the old days before computers.

http://obits.pennlive.com/obituaries/pennlive/obituary.aspx?n=john-j-schmidt&pid=184746626

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Lt Col Robert Martin

Sad to post of the passing of Lt Col Robert “Bob” Martin.

Robert E. Martin, 74, died Sunday, December 18, 2016 at home. He was the husband of Carole L. (Moyer) Martin. Mr. and Mrs. Martin were married for 51 years on August 21, 2016.
Born April 18, 1942 in York, he was the son of the late Robert C. and Mable I. (Plymire) Martin.
Bob retired from federal civil service (Department of Defense) after 35 years of service in January 1999. He is also a retired U.S.A.F. Lt. Colonel by virtue of serving more than 36 years in the Pennsylvania Air National Guard. At his retirement from the Air National Guard, he was Commander of the 193rd Mission Support Squadron, based in Middletown. Bob is a member of the NMRA (since 1972), PRRT&HS, Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, Friends of the East Broad Top, NMRA, and the York County Heritage Trust.
An accomplished modeler, Bob’s freelance HO scale Central Pennsylvania Railroad (with a slight PRR &WM flavor) is known throughout central Pennsylvania, Maryland, northern Virginia, and West Virginia. The CPRR has been on many model railroad layout tours including PRRT&HS national conventions and NMRA division, region and national conventions. He held open operating sessions on the CPRR every month at his home.
Bob was a 1960 graduate of William Penn Senior High School. He was a member of Calvary United Methodist Church.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, James R. and his wife, Tammy Martin of York; a grandson, Derek Martin of York; and two granddaughters, Kaitlyn and Sarah Martin, both of York. He is also survived by his brother, Ronald and his wife, Hope Martin of Zephyrhills, FL.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 11 a.m. at the Etzweiler Funeral Homes and Cremation Service, 1111 E. Market St., York, with Chaplain Richard E. Denison officiating. Burial will be in Greenmount Cemetery with graveside military rites conducted by the York County Veterans Honor Guard. A visitation will be held Thursday from 10 to 11 a.m. at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association , 610 Community Way, Lancaster, PA 17603.
Arrangements by the Etzweiler Funeral Homes and Cremation Service, York. – See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/york/obituary.aspx?n=robert-martin&pid=183164548
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Connie Aungst Obituary

Col (retired) Constance L. Aungst “Connie” was a flight nurse with the 140th Air Transport Squadron starting in 1965. She was the Chief Flight Nurse during 1968 when the 140th Aero Medical Airlift Group was mobilized to speed seriously sick or wounded service personnel to hospitals around the world during the Vietnam War. Her group flew 510 missions, and airlifted 11,947 patients in seven months. Connie accumulated 4,204 hours of flight time in 16 types of military aircraft. She was one our heroines and was elected to the Pennsylvania Air National Guard Hall of Fame in 2009.
Rest in peace Col Aungst!

Obituary for Connie Aungst