H. Willard Good, born September 13, 1919 in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, was the son of Harper Allen and Ramona Mae Reichard. He had two sisters, Frances P. Kuhn and Lillian R. Good, and one brother, Charles E. Good, who served in World War II as a hospital electrician. Willard himself was a passive objector of the war, and he spent the years his brother was abroad working at Civilian Public Service Camps.
Before World War II, Willard graduated from Waynesboro High School in 1937, and then he attended Juniata College, specializing in mechanical engineering. He also graduated from the Journeyman machinist Trade School of Landis Tool Co. in Waynesboro.
From 1940 to 1944, he worked in the engineering department at Landis Tool Co. On June 17, 1944, Willard married his wife, Mary Pauline McKenzie, who was from Fayetteville, Pennsylvania. At the height of World War II, from 1944 to 1946, Willard spent his time working at Civilian Public Service Camps at Bedford, Virginia and Bloomville, New York. From 1946 until 1959, Willard returned to the Landis Tool Co. and worked in their Die Head Engineering Department. Then from 1959 until his retirement in 1985, Willard worked for Pangborn Division in Hagerstown.
Both Willard and his wife, Pauline, were devoted members of the Waynesboro Church of the Brethren. Willard served as a deacon, a teacher of Sunday School Classes, and served on several church committees including the Finance and Christian Education committees. Pauline also served the Church of the Brethren for many years. She was a deaconess from 1952 until her death in 1997, and she was the pianist for the Sunday school classes.
Pauline was outlived by her husband, who died a few years later on March 25, 2002 at Waynesboro Hospital. Pauline and Willard had one son, Darwin E. Good.
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