Harold Anspach, the National AAU Middleweight Champion from Turbotville

 

On May 17th 1948 - Harold Anspach, professional boxer, left Turbotville for training in N.J.

Anspach, a marine, and dairy farmer, was the 1946 National AAU middleweight champion.

A veteran of World War II, Anspach served in the Marines from 1944 to 1946, and was stationed at Cherry Point North Carolina, home of the "Flying Leathernecks".  

While in the Marines, Anspach won the Amateur Boxing Championship. 

In 1946 Anspach won the National AAU Championship, winning 216 bouts and losing just three. 

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MILTON - Harold A. Anspach, 85, of Laidacker Road, formerly of rural Turbotville, passed away on Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at Geisinger Medical Center, where he had been admitted Thursday.
He was born Oct. 5, 1923, in Watsontown, a son of the late Emery L. and Edna G. (Buss) Anspach. On April 29, 1944, he married the former Leilla R. Bower, and they celebrated 65 years of marriage last month.
A veteran of World War II, he served in the Marines from 1944 to 1946. While in the Marines, he won the Amateur Boxing Championship and in 1946 won the National AAU Championship, winning 216 bouts and losing only three. Following his military service, he continued professional boxing for a few years, mainly with Stillman's Gym in New York.
Harold retired from ACF Industries, Milton, where he worked for 35 years. He also was a dairy farmer in Delaware Township for 20 years.
He was a faithful member of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Turbotville, a member of Watsontown Lodge 401, Free & Accepted Masons, the Williamsport Consistory and California Grange 941 and a longtime member of the Elk Run Hunting Club, Sullivan County.
Harold enjoyed watching sports programs and earlier in life loved hunting.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by three sons and daughters-in-law, Martin L. and Sharon and Gary L. and Carol, all of Danville, and Chris D. and Dorothy of Lewisburg; two daughters and sons-in-law, Alice M. and Walter "Chubb" Laidacker of Milton and Diane D. and Charles Dillman of Frackville; 16 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; one brother, Nevin C. Anspach of rural Turbotville; and three sisters, Irene A. Sechler of Turbotville, Shirley M. Whitman of Milton and Nancy D. Quintin of York.
He was preceded in death by one grandson, Daniel J. Dillman, in 1983, and two brothers, Lee and Bernard Anspach.
Friends are invited to call from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday at Zion Lutheran Church, Paradise Street, Turbotville, where the funeral will follow at 11 with his pastor, the Rev. Erwin C. Roux, officiating.
Burial will follow in Twin Hills Memorial Park.