Joseph L. Moschera Sr.

   NORTH HANOVER — Joseph L. Moschera Sr., 85, died Friday at Virtua Memorial Hospital in Mount Holly.
   Born Aug. 26, 1922 in Lawrence, N.Y., he was a lifetime area resident. Mr. Moschera’s family moved to the Moschera Farm when he was 4 years old, where he learned to hunt and fish. He married his childhood sweetheart, Pearl Sager Moschera. He joined the U.S. Navy during World War II and served in the Pacific and later transferred to NAS Lakehurst where he was a flight engineer on the blimps. He also worked for the Navy Jet Propulsion Lab at Willow Grove, Trenton and Lakehurst. He was a retired senior chief petty officer.
   He was a member and past master of the Pyramid Masonic Lodge 92 of the F&AM in New Egypt, a member and past commander of the American Legion Post 455 in New Egypt and had also served on the North Hanover Township Planning Board. He was one of the founders of the Lakehurst Hunting & Fishing Conservation Club and the Fort Dix Conservation Club.
   Son of the late August and Anna (O’Neil) Moschera, stepfather of the late Larry Johnson and brother of the late Margaret Halliwell, and Thomas, August and Larry Moschera, he is survived by his wife of 60 years, Pearl (nee Sager) Moschera; his children and their spouses, Nancy and Murrell Worth of Paulden, Ariz., Joseph and Shirley Moschera Jr. of Tucson, Ariz., Linda and Eddie Vaughan of Little Rock, Ariz., Mark D. and Terri Moschera of North Hanover Township and Shawn T. and Diana Moschera of North Hanover Township; two brothers and sisters-in-law, James and Barbara Moschera of North Hanover Township and Alden and Gladys Moschera of Jupiter, Fla.; four sisters, Kay Worth and husband Jim, Alice Trapani, Irene Walden and Marion Halliwell all of Jupiter; 14 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
   Funeral services were held Tuesday at the Tilghman Funeral Home, 52 Main St. in New Egypt, with burial following at the Jacobstown Baptist Cemetery in Jacobstown. Masonic services were held Monday at the funeral home.