{"id":55053,"date":"2025-01-10T09:18:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=55053"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:18:47","slug":"obituaries-kristine-a-lestourgeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=55053","title":{"rendered":"Obituaries: Kristine A. LeStourgeon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kristine A. LeStourgeon<\/p><\/div>\n

LANDENBERG \u2013 Kristine A. (Lingg) LeStourgeon, 58, passed away peacefully on January 6, 2025, after a battle with pancreatic cancer.\u00a0 She was the beloved wife of Frederick \u201cChip\u201d LeStourgeon, Jr.<\/p>\n

Kristine was born July 2, 1966, in York and was the daughter of David Lingg, Jr. and Linda (Forry) Lingg.<\/p>\n

She graduated from Central York High School and later Millersville University where she earned a BS in accounting.\u00a0\u00a0 She developed lifelong friends at college and would celebrate an annual Thanksgiving feast (Turkey Day) with them. After college, Kris began her career at Friedman Associates as an auditor.\u00a0 She later moved to Graham Capital as a tax accountant.\u00a0 At Graham she met her future husband on a blind date initiated by a mutual friend.\u00a0 After an engagement, marriage, and a honeymoon to New Zealand, Kris relocated to Landenberg, PA and priorities shifted to building a family.\u00a0 She worked briefly at Thorn EMI Records as a tax accountant but moved on from accounting to become a full time stay at home Mom with the birth of her first child.<\/p>\n

As a full time Mom, Kris\u2019s family was her pride and joy.\u00a0 With a young family, Kris often volunteered as a teacher aide, participated in school bus trips, organized events, fundraisers and championed many activities.\u00a0 As her family grew up, Kris took a part time job at a preschool, then later at the school cafeteria allowing her schedule to match the kids school schedules.\u00a0 Kris wanted to be home every day when her kids got home from school.\u00a0 With four active children, Kris encouraged her children\u2019s academic, social and sporting activities.\u00a0 She was often a full-time taxi service.\u00a0 Whether it was basketball, baseball, softball, gymnastics or any other activity, Kris loved watching her kids activities and could be found as a spectator at almost every event.\u00a0 Kris was also an avid walker, frequenting the local trails.<\/p>\n

In addition to her husband and parents, Kris is the loving mother of Benjamin, Rebecca, Michelle, and Jonathan; her brothers, Mike Lingg (Tammy), Kevin Lingg, and cousins Dave Miller, Keith Miller, Jill (Forry) Schoener, Diane (Bear) Estep, Jen (Bear) Bonawitz, Greg Bear, and Kellie (Rode) Bly.\u00a0 Kris was preceded in death by her cousin, Doug Forry.\u00a0 Growing up Kris spent lots of time at the family egg business where she grew close with her cousins.\u00a0 She considers her cousin Jill as a sister.<\/p>\n

Her funeral service will begin at 2:30 PM, Saturday, January 11, 2025, at Quickel Lutheran Church, 60 Canal Road, York, PA.\u00a0 Her viewing will be from 1:00 to 2:30 PM Saturday at the church.\u00a0 Her burial will be in Quickel Cemetery.\u00a0 Officiating at the service will be her pastor, Reverend Roy Stetler.\u00a0 Arrangements have been entrusted to Diehl Funeral Home & Cremation Center of Mount Wolf.<\/p>\n

In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to Project Purple supporting Pancreatic Cancer research and awareness.<\/p>\n

To share memories of Kris, please visit www.diehlfuneralhome.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LANDENBERG \u2013 Kristine A. (Lingg) LeStourgeon, 58, passed away peacefully on January 6, 2025, after a battle with pancreatic cancer.\u00a0 She was the beloved wife of Frederick \u201cChip\u201d LeStourgeon, Jr. Kristine was born July 2, 1966, in York and was the daughter of David Lingg, Jr. and Linda (Forry) Lingg. She graduated from Central York […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4586],"tags":[15916,7435],"class_list":["post-55053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-kristine-a-lestourgeon","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55054,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55053\/revisions\/55054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}