Lloyd E. Hawk

Lloyd Evan Hawk of Easton, MD died on Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at Genesis Elder Care-The Pines, Easton, MD. He was 93. Born October 25, 1909 on a dairy farm in Wawa, PA, where, according to family lore the great pacer Dan Patch was briefly owned by the Hawk family, he was the son of the late William E. and Alberta Bruner Hawk. After leaving high school, he worked on an Amish farm, in silk mills in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and with a pipeline crew in southeastern Pennsylvania. He retired in 1972 after thirty years with the Radio Corporation of America in Lancaster, PA as foreman of the RCA Development Shop. He was married for fifty-one years to Kathryn Baney Hawk. Mrs. Hawk died in 1989. In 1996 he moved to Easton to live with his daughter and son-in-law, Jean and Jacques Baker. A member of the New Holland, PA town baseball team, he was also an above average bowler and enjoyed playing bridge, pinochle and gin rummy. He was widely traveled, an excellent mechanic, craftsman and gardener. He made furniture, carved folk figures, maintained large vegetable and flower gardens and grew hundreds of varieties of iris, some of which are now at Mt. Vernon, VA. He was a longtime member of the St. Andrews United Church of Christ in Lancaster, PA, a member of the Lancaster, PA and Easton, MD Elks Lodges, a 32nd Degree Mason, a member of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon and the Shrine, and the recipient of a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellowship. In addition to his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. Hawk is survived by three granddaughters, Susan Galanek and her husband, Paul of Trappe, MD, Elizabeth Walter of Easton, MD and Kay Baker-Huband and her husband, Neal of Mechanicsville, VA; seven great grandchildren, Michael Galanek and Benjamin Galenek of Trappe, MD, Tyler Walter and Emily Walter of Easton, MD, Hannah Huband, Anderson Huband and Del Huband all of Mechanicsville, VA; and many nieces and nephews. Two sisters, Lola Weaver and Mildred Grubb are deceased. A graveside service will be held on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 at 1:00 PM at Conestoga Memorial Park, Lancaster, PA. In lieu of flowers, contributions in his memory may be made to St. Andrews United Church of Christ, 701 N. Lime St., Lancaster, PA 17602 or Home Run Baker Little League, c/o Mrs. Susan Galanek, PO Box 355, Trape, MD 21673. Arrangements are by Fellows, Helfenbein & Newnam Funeral Home, P.A., Easton, MD 21601.