Clarence R. “Curly” “CR” Bacher, age 90, of Butler, passed away on Friday, October 27, 2017, at Newhaven Court at Clearview.
Born in Butler on July 8, 1927, he was a son of the late John L. and Cora Bowers Bacher.
A veteran of World War II, he served in the United States Navy Air Corps as an air traffic controller.
He graduated from the Robert Morris School of Business with an accounting degree.
CR was a self-employed accountant with great entrepreneurial spirit. In 1953 he founded Bacher and Associates Accounting. Nine years later he established Bacher Electronics. In January of 1967 he purchased Butler Ambulance Service, and in 1985 he acquired Sedan Service, a company that provides hearse service to local funeral homes. He also founded Butler Assist Coach, a transport service for wheelchair patients, in 1995, and Bacher Automotive Service in 1998.
He was a member of Saint Paul Roman Catholic Church.
Surviving are his wife, Dolores “Dee” Marcus Bacher, whom he married July 9, 1949; two sons, Dennis R. Bacher and his wife, Penny, of Cabot, and Robin L. Bacher, of Mars; one sister, Cleora Black and her husband, Donald, of Chicora; and four grandchildren, David Bacher and his wife, Feather, Alicia Haas and her husband, Jesse, Amy Vernon and her husband, Cory, and Nathan Bacher and his wife, Elizabeth.
Also surviving are nine great-grandchildren, Jacob Bacher, Jayson Haas, Evan Haas, Jonah Bacher, Grayson Bacher, Joseph Vernon, Keegan Bacher, Mya Vernon, and Emma Vernon; two step-grandchildren, Kelly Kimsey and Kayla Gugino; and a number of nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by three brothers, Cecil, Cliff and John; one sister, Evelyn Elliott; and one step-granddaughter, Megan Dietz.
Friends will be received in the Martin Funeral Home, Inc., 429 Center Avenue, Butler, on Sunday from 6–8 p.m. and on Monday from 1-3 p.m. and 6–8 p.m.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Tuesday at 10 a.m. from Saint Paul Roman Catholic Church.
Entombment will be in Calvary Cemetery Mausoleum.
Members of Saint Paul Catholic Women and Christian Mothers will meet at the church on Tuesday at 9:35 a.m. to recite the rosary.
The family requests memorial donations to Parkinson Foundation of Western Pennsylvania, 575 Lincoln Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15202 or to Dementia Society of America, P.O. Box 600, Doylestown, PA. 18901.
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