Background
Amos Funk was born on his family"s farm in Millersville, Pennsylvania, to parents, A. Herr and Nellie Eshleman Funk.
Amos Funk was born on his family"s farm in Millersville, Pennsylvania, to parents, A. Herr and Nellie Eshleman Funk.
Pennsylvania State University.
He served on several national, state and local advisory committees designed to preserve farmland in Pennsylvania and the United States. He majored in economics at Pennsylvania State University. He was appointed to the Pennsylvania Soil and Water Conservation Commission by former Pennsylvania Governors William Scranton, Raymond P. Shafer, Richard Thornburgh and Robert Casey.
Former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton also appointed Funk to the state"s Committee on Agriculture, while former Governor Raymond Shafer placed him onto the Committee on the Preservation of Agricultural Land.
United States. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz appointed Funk to the eighteen-member National Advisory Committee to the United States. Soil Conservation Service in 1974. Funk is credited with the creation of the Lancaster Farmland Trust, which he co-founded with three other individuals in 1975, and served as a trustee for twelve years.
Funk also served as the president of the Conestoga Valley Watershed Conservation District for seventeen years, president of the Pennsylvania Soil and Water Conservation District Directors, Incorporated., and president of the Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Association. Amos Funk died on February 14, 2010, at Lancaster Regional Medical Center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at the age of 98.
He was a resident of Lancaster at the time of his death.