Amos Funk, 98, farmland preservation pioneer, dies

[Patrick Drohan]

Amos H. Funk, a farm preservationist of national stature, died Sunday
at Lancaster Regional Medical Center. A Lancaster resident, he
formerly lived in Millersville. He was 98.

Funk was a member of Gov. William Scranton's Committee on Agriculture
and of Governor Raymond Shafer's Committee on the Preservation of
Agricultural Land.

He also was appointed by Govs. Scranton, Shafer, Richard Thornburgh
and Robert Casey to serve on the Pennsylvania Soil and Water
Conservation Commission.

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