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YNC(SS) Guss G. Pappas • 1934 – 2017

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April 22, 1934 - November 8, 2017

East Manchester Twp.

Guss G. Pappas, 83, died at 9:45 p.m. Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at his residence. He was the husband of Elnora J. (Updegraff) Pappas.

Born April 22, 1934 in Scranton, the son of the late George K. and Kalleope M. (Athas) Pappas, he was retired from Caterpillar, Inc., and served in the U.S. Navy for more than 21 years. He was a member of Valley View Alliance Church, Shiloh American Legion Post 791, the Fleet Reserve Association Branch 20, and also attended Community Cornerstone Church, York.

guss pappas early fall 2018 2In addition to his wife of 63 years, Mr. Pappas, is survived by two sons, Steven S. Pappas and his wife, Robin, and Matthew E. Pappas, all of York; a daughter, Jennifer E. Snyder and her husband, Scott, of Dover; six grandchildren, Jeremy, Kristen, Joshua, KateLynne, Brady and Jesse; three great-grandchildren, Noel, Aeryn, and Rey; and a brother, Loui Pappas of Columbia, SC.

Funeral services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday, November 13, 2017 at Valley View Alliance Church, 200 Alliance Avenue, York with The Rev. Ross Dunk, officiating. Viewings will be 1-3 p.m. Sunday at William E. Little Funeral Homes, Inc., 60 South Main Street, Manchester, and 10-11 a.m. Monday at the Church. Graveside services are scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at Fort Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, with full military rites.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, P.O. Box 96105, Washington, DC 20090-6105 or to Truth for Israel, PO Box 156, Ephrata PA 17522.

Courtesy of KuhnerAssociates.com

Published in York Daily Record & York Dispatch on Nov. 10, 2017

 

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Our shipmate has passed on before us.

Whether by enemy action, the remorseless sea, or the ravages of time and age,
we must accept that God has called you to where we cannot yet follow.

We commend your body to the deep, and your soul to God Almighty.

May God grant you fair winds and following seas.

 

Godspeed, shipmate.

 

We will miss you...

 

 

 

"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another...

"No man is an island, entire of itself, every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

John Donne

Meditation XVII
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions
Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris.
Now this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die.
1572 - 1631

 

 

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