He was a retired attorney, a former Schuylkill County assistant district attorney and former senior counsel for the state Board of Claims; a graduate of Ashland High School, Gettysburg College and Dickinson School of Law; an Army veteran of World War II; a volunteer at the Anthracite Museum; a former board member of the Ashland Area Visiting Nurses Association; and a member of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, the Schuylkill County and Pennsylvania bar associations, the Ashland American Legion post and Washington Fire Company.

Surviving are his wife, Ann Hartenstein Enterline; two daughters, Joann Woodward of Ashland RD and Deborah Enterline of Jim Thorpe; a son, Richard J. of Harrisburg; four brothers, Stevenson of Matawan, N.J., Robert of Hagerstown, Md., Dr. H. Theodore of Kennett Square and William of West Chester; a sister, Elizabeth E. Adams of Doylestown; and four grandchildren.