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William H. “Bill” Silvers, 72

William H. “Bill” Silvers, 72, of Lititz, died Wednesday, August 8, 2012, at the Essa Flory Hospice Center. Born in Clayton, NJ, he was the son of the late Stanley and Virginia Steelman Silvers. He was the husband of Lucina Miranda Silvers for 19 years.

A graduate of Albright College, Bill had been a physicist in the engineering department of RCA. He was a member of the Lancaster Canoe Club and was a SCCA race car driver. A lover of pipe organ music, he used to build pipe organs. Bill enjoyed travelling and experiencing other cultures.

Surviving in addition to his wife Lucina are 6 children, Thomas Silvers, Lititz, John, husband of Deb Silvers, Bradenton, FL, Michael, husband of Lisa Silvers, Salisbury, MD, Jeffrey, husband of Stacey Silvers, Wilmington, DE, Laura, wife of Memo Raineri, Lancaster, and Nancy, wife of Peter Wilde, Eugene, OR; 11 grandchildren, Johnny, Amanda, Jessica and  Morgan Silvers, Trinity and Clover Meyer, Anna, Gianni and Andre Raineri, Rhowan Dacotah and Henry Wilde; and his sister Phyllis Gallucci of Buena, NJ. Bill was preceded in death by his sister Caroline Haegle.

A Memorial Service will take place 6 PM Wednesday, August 15, 2012, at the Charles F. Snyder Funeral Jr. Home & Crematory, Inc., 3110 Lititz Pike, Lititz, PA 17543. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Interment will be private. Please omit flowers. Memorial Contributions may be made the American Cancer Society, “Amazing Racers”, 314 Good Drive, Lancaster, PA 17603. To send the family online condolences, please visit SnyderFuneralHome.com. Charles F. Snyder Jr. Funeral Home & Crematory 717-560-5100

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December 22, 2014

EXCELENTE PERSONA, GRAN AMIGO, SIEMPRE GUARDO GRANDES RECUERDOS Y ENSEÑANSAS DE BILL, EN BRAZIL, EN FRANCIA
POR SIEMPRE
MARTIN CARRILLO

Meus sentimentos e muita paz em seus corações. Bill era uma pessoa muito alegre e agradável de se relacionar no ambiente de trabalho, deixa muita saudade.
Egas Moniz

Hi Lucina
Miinhas sinceras condolências
Bill foi uma pessoa muito importante em minha vida pessoal e Professional.
Nunca esquecerei um dos seus principais ensinamentos:
– compartilhe todos os seus conhecimentos, não guarde nada para você, sua riqueza e sabedoria esta na capacidade de aprender coisas novas….
Muita forca para você e toda a sua família
Saúde e paz
Alexandre Domingues

Lucina and Thomas,
accept our sincerest condolences for your loss. Bill was a great friend and we will always remember the great moments we spent together.  We sure will miss him. Take comfort in knowing that he is no longer suffering.
You all are in our prayers.
With our love,
Paulo Márcio, Wanessa, Debora and Daniel

I met Bill when i was starting my career at RCA Brazil in 1986. Bill was a type of person that is one in millions, who was always a friend never to forget.
He was always worried about my development in my career and when we had a chance to see each other, i always felt that a very special friend was on my side and certainly both of us wanted to see the best for each other.
I, Laura, Luiza and Ana Maria are praying for Bill and we are very sorry about this huge loss that Lucina and Thomas and also the whole family is facing.
Our condolences to Silvers´ Family
Name = Gilberto Mascarenhas Meira

John, Sorry for your loss my friend.

Ben and Judy Byler

To Lucina,Thomas, Nancy, Laura, Jeffrey, Michael and Jonh

Please accept mine and our families deepest feelings. In this moment, I would let you know that Bill wiill be forever in our minds.

Not only due to his continuous and fruitfull work that led our "Color Gun" to be a pleasant,productive site to work.But mainly due to his friendship,joy openess and integration with our culture, feelings and summarizing with our daily life.

To me and to my daughters,he was more than a colleague, he was a brother, an uncle… I remember the local trips we did together, the Sundays mornings in Minas Tenis with my daughters, the frog he catch in my home for Mariana , the walkings around the Pampulha lake…many, many memories.

Certainly he is now in peace , probably fixing a lot of things wherever he is.

We prayed for him and may God bless all of you.
Luiz Carlos, Christina and families

Dad just wrote above some amazing memories we have of uncle Bill. he was truly an inspiration to me in many ways. Wish you all love and support one could get in this such difficult time. And, from experience (mainly to Thomas), time helps to heal but as all injuries, some scars remains. And don’t worry or be scared – scars are beautiful -a sign of growth and a reminder that we can always move forward.

LOVE from
Raquel, Sebastian, Jasmin and Antonieta.

Querida Lucina,
Meus mais sinceros sentimentos pela perda do Bill.
Das pessoas que conheci, ele certamente será uma daquelas que não esquecerei.
Um grande profissional, um excelente amigo,alegre, íntegro e sincero.
A sua ausência nos causa profunda tristeza, mas relembrar as alegrias que ele nos proporcionou com sua convivência, certamente amenizará a saudade que sentiremos…
Que Deus conforte você e toda sua família neste momento.
Vocês estarão em meus pensamentos e orações.

Fátima Vasconcelos Multari

Lucina and Family,

So sorry to hear about Bill. May God bless you during this difficult time. You will be in my thoughts and prayers.

Cathy Luhring

À Lucina, Thomas e toda a família de Bill Sempre me lembrarei com carinho de sua dificuldade com os idiomas, e sua enorme paciência com nosso inglês "more or less", quando frequentemente apelávamos para um pouco de mímica,ou para o tradutor mais próximo. E ele lá, todo atenção e sorriso. Peço a Deus que lhes dê forças nesse momento tão difícil. Compartilhamos com vocês esse sentimento de perda de uma pessoa tão querida.

Kátia Silva.

Vamos todos nos lembrar sempre da sua cordialidade, cortesia trabalhando com o Bill em Contagem, na Thomson.. nosso respeito, nosso abraço.. Lucina, nossas sinceras condolências e carinho por esta grande perda.

Ione Vieira

To Lucina and family

Please accept my sincere condolences in this very difficult moment.

Bill stays in my mind as a very talented professional,a dedicated and helpful member of our team. I remember he liked very much Brazil and our Belo factory,and was highly appreciated by the whole team.

We all miss him very much
Robert Finck

Dear Children of Bill Silvers,
   I had the privilege to know and spend lots of time with Bill, Pat and their children during the first 20 years of their marriage. While things changed in both of our family lives after that time, I have many great memories of the good times our families spent together. I especially remember the many years we shared New Year’s Eve together. We had many family picnics together and several canoe trips. Your parents were lots of fun and they lived good lives. While Bill had many trips with RCA, he still spent lots of time with his children.
   I hope you can share this message with your mother Pat. I have now retired from public education where I was a Superintendent of Schools in 5 different communities in PA and NJ. My email is dlwitmer@hotmail.com
   God Bless each of you, my family extends our sincere sympathy to each of you for the loss of a great man, your FATHER Bill.

Dave Witmer

I just find out your message Lucinda, thank you, I am in S.C. and was not opening facebook, I am really sorry Bill past away, I will miss him, but keep him in my memories.

with all ma sympathy,
renee daguise

Lucina and family,
I am so sorry for your loss.  I am thinking of you and praying for your family.
Sincerely,
Allyn Veazey

Nossa familia ora por você e Thomas,nosso Bill Silvers foi exemplo de honestidade e proficionalismo,o mundo ficou mais pobre com sua e nossa perda.

George W. Silva

Dear Lucina

Sudhakar and I are very saddened by this great loss that you and your family have incurred. It is a pleasure knowing Bill and he will be greatly missed. You are in our thoughts and prayers.

With heartfelt sympathy,
Archana and Sudhakar

Meus sentimentos pela perda de Bill. Só o conhecia por fotos mas sei que minha amiga Lucina foi feliz ao seu lado.

De Jerusa Maria

Lucina, thinking of you and Thomas at this difficult time. My sympathies. –John Murray

I met Bill in 2004 if memory does not fail. At the time as a nurse took care of the father of Lucina Silvers, Mr. Joseph was in the month of Jullho they came to Brazil, and we stay for a month in the city city of Juiz de Fora.

At the exit from Belo Horizonte to Juiz de Fora, as the BR 040, I felt butterflies in my belly, because Bill came to put 130 to 140 KM / H in the small fiat uno Mr. Joseph Green, my God to all thought it would arrive alive in Juiz de Fora, rsrsrsr.

We stopped in a town to eat the famous potato bread that Mr. Joseph has always liked, and Mr. Joseph worried because of the speed, it had asked me to drive the car until I tried to see if he could rest, but with a knack Lucina asked him to reduce speed slightly.

It was a trip that I’ll never forget.

Lucina at this time God will give you all comfort,

Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God.

Psalms 146:5

Sincerely;
Wesley Fabiano

Meus sentimentos. Que Deus os ampare sempre, Luiz  otavio

Dear Lucina
I am so sorry for your loss.  My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. 
Katie Vedyshev

Lucina,

I know this is the most difficult time for you.  But remember that your friends and family are there to lean on.  But most of all God will carry you and strengthen you during this time, lean on him he will provide all your needs.   You and your family will be in my thoughts and prayers. 

Phyllis Redmond

March 2007 was the first time I came to Pennsylvania. I hopped on a train coming from New Jersey’s Penn Station. Bill and Lucina picked me up at the train station in Harrisburg. I stayed at Bill and Lucina’s house. They were living in Harrisburg at that time. I can still remember Bill driving me to Sam’s Club, Giant and other places. As I recall shopping wasn’t one of his things. Yet every morning he would ask what I and the others wanted for breakfast and he would take the car and 10 – 15 minutes later he would be back. 

But if you ask me what I remember most fondly were the dinner conversations we had every night, his stories of Mexico, Ireland where the food sucks but the people are very nice, of places he and Lucina had visited, France, friends all around the world, his love and passion for pipe organs and of course his racing and race cars.

Years later when I visited Bill and Lucina in Lititz we went to this little bagel shop and he would talk to strangers just like old time friends.

That is how I will always remember Bill Silvers, a great person, human being, excellent story teller, kind, warm, honest, bright, enjoyable, funny, charismatic.

My condolences to all the family.
Joseph Pacheco

Lucina,
Please accept my condolences, I am very sorry for you loss.
Susan Ivey

I met Bill when I was a teenager, since he was one of my father’s best friend. Over time he became a dear friend of mine as well. Although we had few opportunities to see each other (only when he came to Brazil), we used to communicate through e-mails. He would describe the landscape when walking Roxie, giving details about the trees, birds and flowers… I just loved it!!!
Now I know that he is in a place even more beautiful than the ones he described. For Lucina, Thomas and all Bill’s family, my sincere condolences. God will give you strength to go through this.

Soraya

O Bill foi um exemplo de pessoa que cultivava a alegria e a amizade em todos os lugares que frequentava. Era uma pessoa da qual podia se confiar cegamente. Em minha convivência com o Bill nunca houve nada que colocasse a sua honestidade, integridade e amizade em dúvida. Ele preocupava com os maus hábitos que os amigos tinham e os aconselhava a mudar de atitude. Anualmente, recebíamos o Bill, sua família e amigos em nossa casa para que eles pudessem reencontrar todos os amigos brasileiros em sua breve passagem país. Eram sempre reuniões muito agradáveis e divertidas. Sentiremos muita falta deste convívio anual.

Lucina, Thomas and all Biil´s family,

we are sad about the Bill´s death. Accept our deep condolences.

He was a good friend of ours at work and at our family life. Our children always remember the time he visit us at our home and they called him "uncle Bill" and ask him to hold them in his back. We will always keep in our minds the good memories we had together.

We pray to God for his soul in heaven and to give the comfort to all the family members.

Cornélio, Dóia, Débora, Lívia and Lucas

Lucina, Thomas, John, Mike, Laura, Jeff and Nancy and families:

David and I want to express our deepest sympathies in Bill’s death. He was a strong man. So wonderful that you all got together recently,could share memories. Please accept our thoughts and prayers.

Robyn and David Alspach

Lucina,
        I got to know Bill in 1979 when we started working together. A great professional and excellent friend with a heart of gold. An American citizen with a Brazilian heart. Be sure Bill survives in my memory as well as my family´s memory. May God comfort you all at this very hard moment.
Mauro Lana

Let me share one of my "Uncle Bill" moments.

As a 7 year old I loved watching Uncle Bill fly his gas powered model airplanes (which he built himself from scratch). One day as I watched him build his latest plane, he noticed my curiosity over a bottle of liquid he was using. "Would you like to take a sniff?", he asked holding the bottle out for me. So I took a nice big "sniff". I shuttered like a baby tasting lemon for the first time! It was the nastiest smell EVER! Uncle Bill chuckled and with that grin of his, offered some advice, "Never take a deep breath when you’re sniffing something new!".

In the grand scheme of things it was a minor event but I remember him and his words to this very day every time I take a sniff of something new! So a little bit of Uncle Bill still lives on in me…

I’m very sorry for your loss. He’ll be missed.

Paul Gallucci

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