Biography

02/23/1928 - 01/07/2012

DAIKELER, Ethelbert Charles, a Representative from Montgomery County; born in Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, February 23, 1928; graduated, Lower Marion High School; graduated, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, 1952; signalman, petty officer third class, United States Coast Guard (1945-1946, World War II); partner, Daikeler Associates (1952-1978); manufacturing representative; theatre owner; township supervisor, Montgomery Township (1965-1972); board member and chairman, North Penn Hospital (1976-2002); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1980; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1982); member, East Rockhill Township Planning Committee; employed, Doylestown Intelligencer; died, January 7, 2012 in Doylestown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; interred, Washington Crossing National Cemetery, Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.