Eleanor M. Rapp
She enjoyed being outdoors and loved fishing, gardening, and tending to her flowers.
Services for Eleanor: 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 15, 2025 at the Clyde W. Kraft Funeral Home, 519 Walnut St, Columbia, PA 17512. The family will receive friends for visitation beginning at 10:00 a.m. until service time.
She will be entombed with her late husband at Laurel Hill Memorial Gardens.
Eleanor Marie Rapp, 89, of Marietta passed away on July 8, 2025. She was born in Lebanon to the late Charles and Lena Dietz and was a lifelong resident of this area.
Eleanor attended the former Marietta High School and worked most recently as a security guard with the former ITT Grinnell. She enjoyed being outdoors and loved fishing, gardening, and tending to her flowers. Eleanor was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, great great grandmother, sister, and aunt who adored her family and treasured spending time with them. She was a devoted and involved parishioner of Mary Mother of the Church in Mount Joy.
Eleanor leaves behind four children, John, husband of Lisa Rapp of Millersville, Eleanor, wife of Ronald Ault of Mount Joy, Susan, wife of the late Clair Knight of Marietta, Michael, husband of Dani Rapp of Marietta; twelve grandchildren, eighteen great grandchildren, and four great great grandchildren; one sister and numerous nieces, nephews, and a large extended family. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband John Rapp in 1992; a daughter Catherine Fredrick; two brothers, Charles and Albert Dietz.
Services for Eleanor will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 15, 2025 at the Clyde W. Kraft Funeral Home, 519 Walnut St, Columbia, PA 17512. The family will receive friends for visitation beginning at 10:00 a.m. until service time. She will be entombed with her late husband at Laurel Hill Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Pennsylvania SPCA Lancaster Center, 848 S. Prince St, Lancaster, PA 17603.
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