Community Unites To Remember Public Servant

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The Lower Bucks County community showed their support Saturday for the Redner family after the death of 27-year-old George Redner III.

Under crisp blue skies, close to 1,000 people from all walks of life remembered the Tullytown resident who worked and volunteered in the emergency services field.

Redner – the son of longtime volunteer firefighter George Redner Jr. and Pennsbury School Board Vice President Jacqui Redner – worked at Bristol Township’s Bucks County Rescue Squad and the Six Flags Fire Department in New Jersey. He also volunteered with the Edgely Fire Company in Bristol Township. Redner was preparing to join the Philadelphia Fire Academy to continue his career of public service.

Saturday’s services came a week after Redner took his own life.

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A procession that appeared to stretch for close to a mile traveled from James J. Dougherty Funeral Home on Trenton Road in Middletown to St. Michael the Archangel Church in Tullytown under escort from local police, firefighters and medical service providers.

At the church, well-organized firefighters escorted Redner’s family and casket into the Catholic place of worship for services.

“The family has suffered a real hard blow and we’re trying to make this as easy as possible for the family,” Ken Bowman, president of Fire and Iron Motorcycle Club 139, said. He added that other motorcycle clubs, including ones from around the country, were represented along with the various emergency agencies.

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The family was surrounded by supporters after the services. Some Redner’s brothers and fellow firefighters helped carry his casket onto the back of a vintage Edgely Fire Company engine truck.

The procession, as groups of people watched from the Levittown Town Center, then made its way to Resurrection Cemetery in Bensalem, where Redner was buried.

Donations to help the Redner family pay for funeral and burial expenses can be submitted online or delivered to Tullytown Well Fargo account 7933783768.