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Obituary: Tony Brock,
Dave Hultberg (dave.hultberg@PAONLINE.COM)
Thu, 5 Nov 1998 15:04:00 -0600
The Harrisburg Patriot News Wednesday, November 4, 1998
Anthony C. Brock Sr., regional Boy Scout Leader, dies
Keystone Council executive helped promote the movement
By LES POWELL
OF THE PATRIOT-NEWS
Anthony C. Brock Sr., a midstate leader in the Boy Scout movement, died
Monday at home.
Brock, 56, of Mechanicsburg, was Scout executive for the Keystone Area,
Council, Boy Scouts of America, and a certified fund-raising executive. He
was a Navy veteran, attended Temple University, and was a member of St.
Joseph Catholic Church, Mechanicsburg, the East Shore Rotary Club and the
Tuesday Club.
Keystone Area Council President James B. Pannebaker said the council "is
deeply saddened" by Brock's death.
"Tony was a dedicated Scouter who devoted most of his adult life to the Boy
Scout movement," Pannebaker said. "He will be greatly missed by the youth
and volunteers of the Keystone Area Council. Our thoughts and prayers are
with his family."
John B. Turo, chairman of the council's High Adventure program, worked
closely with Brock on that program, designed to provide additional outdoors
experiences and leadership training.
"He was very knowledgeable on all aspects of Scouting," Turo said, "knew
how to promote it, was very good at explaining what Scouting was all about,
what it did
for boys and adults."
Turo said he and Brock "did several TV promos on 'Values of Men and Boys in
America", a research study for the Boy Scouts of America, which expounded
upon the benefits of Scouting. "Tony could just rattle off the material in
that report ... he just made [the TV spots] look easy."
The Rev. William King of the Catholic Church's Harrisburg diocesan office
and an executive board member of the Scout council, Worked closely with
Brock on various Scouting issues.
"I admired his integrity," said King, also a voting member of the Boy
Scouts' national council, who will officiate at Brock's funeral service.
"He was a person of deep convictions and very high ' moral standards,"
At national Scout council meetings, he added, "I saw, how highly esteemed
he was by his colleagues."
"He was a very devoted Scouter," said Terry Bush, a former president of the
Keystone Area council. "He dedicated his life to scouting, loved the
scouting program. We'll miss him."
Harrisburg Mayor Stephen R. Reed, whom Brock named an honorary Eagle Scout,
said Brock "devoted his life to helping 'and serving people."
Surviving Brock are his wife, Janet Wilson Brock; a daughter, Jacqueline
M., at home; two sons, Anthony C. Jr. of Elizabethtown and Michael A. of
Philadelphia; two brothers, Paul of Alabama and Joseph of Philadelphia; and
a sister,
Catherine Zinn of New Jersey.
Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Thursday in his
church. Burial will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Upper Allen Twp.
Viewing will be from 6 to 9 tonight in Myers Funeral Home, Mechanicsburg.
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