Norman Dewitt Wagner

Norman DeWitt Wagner, 84, Pennside, a retired educator, died Oct. 29 in Reading Hospital.

He was the husband of Mary Elizabeth (Salzmann) Wagner.

Born in Cape May Court House, N.J., he was a son of the late Norman P. and Emma F. (Shellhamer) Wagner.

Wagner had been last employed for 14 years as a Pennsylvania state vocational educational field consultant, retiring in 1984. He previously served as the first principal of the Berks Career and Technology Center West Campus, Bern Township.

He also held positions as a machinist for the Reading Railroad and Textile Machine Works, Wyomissing; served as a maintenance machinist at Metropolitan Edison Co., Muhlenberg Township; and was a machine shop teacher for the Abington School District Vo-Tech school, Montgomery County.

Wagner was a member of Trinity United Church of Christ, Mount Penn, where he served as deacon, elder and vice president of the consistory.

He was a 1937 graduate of Allentown High School, received a bachelor's degree in education from Kutztown State Teachers College in 1947, and his master's degree from Temple University, Philadelphia, in 1968.

Wagner was a Navy veteran of World War II.

He is also survived by a daughter, Robin L. (Wagner) Henschel, Sinking Spring, and one granddaughter.

Memorial services will be Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Trinity UCC. Private burial will be in Spies (Zion) Cemetery, Alsace Township. Edward J. Kuhn Funeral Home Inc., West Reading, is in charge of arrangements.