Julie Ellen Getter, 08 May 1944 – 09 Feb 2013

GETTER, EGGERT, KAUFFMAN, IRWIN, SCHLETZBAUM

Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 2/21/2013 at 14:56:09

Julie Getter, 68

A private service for Julie E. (Eggert) Getter, 68, Carlisle, Pa., was held Sunday, Feb. 17, at Prospect Hill Cemetery, Newville, Pa. She died Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, at Harrisburg Hospital after a long series of illnesses.

Memorials may be made to the Service Dog Project Inc., 37 Boxford Rd., Ipswich, Mass. 01938 or www.servicedogproject.org. The family can be contacted by email at linda@lindaeirwin.com.

Julie Ellen Getter was born May 8, 1944, in Iowa City, the daughter of Leland G. and Lucille Kauffman Eggert. She grew up attending Ladora, Marengo and Iowa City schools, followed by the University of Kansas, where she met and married her husband.

Due to his career in higher education, the couple lived in numerous college towns including Lawrence, Kan.; Forth Worth, Texas; Cedar Rapids; Lynchburg, Va.; Oberlin, Ohio, and Hanover, N.H., before retiring to the Washington, D.C., area in 2001.

She had a long career as executive assistant and office manager for outstanding physicians in Cleveland, Ohio, retiring in 1993 after moving to New Hampshire. She was an extraordinary genealogical researcher for almost 40 years, tracing her own and her husband’s families, documenting forgotten cemeteries and homesteads and collaborating with others who shared the passion of discovery and accurate preservation of family history.

She loved her children and grandchildren and focused her later years on their interests. Her thoughtful deeds and words will stay with them forever.

Getter is survived by her husband, Michael, Carlisle; one son, Joseph and family, Middletown, Conn.; one daughter, Amy and family, Columbia, Md.; one sister, Linda Irwin, Dallas, Texas, and aunts and an uncle, Boneita Eggert, Marengo, and Isola and Durl Schletzbaum, Pleasantville.

The Gazette, 15 Feb 2013, The Williamsburg Journal Tribune, 21 Feb 2013