Ichter was born as one of two sons to Harold Lester Ichter and the former Harriet Ellen Tremayne in Nanticoke, a small [[coal]]-mining community near Reading, [[Pennsylvania]].<ref name=familysearch/> Harold Ichter was an employee of the [[United States Postal Service]] and the Pennsylvania [[National Guard]]; the family was hardly impacted by the [[Great Depression]] because of the father's two paychecks. With the attack on [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, the senior Ichter was sent to [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], [[Louisiana]], to be an umpire for the war games at nearby [[United States Army]] camps. As a result of this move, the younger Ichter came into contact with Southern Baptists. He graduated a semester early in 1943 from Bolton High School in Alexandria.<ref name=familysearch/> | Ichter was born as one of two sons to Harold Lester Ichter and the former Harriet Ellen Tremayne in Nanticoke, a small [[coal]]-mining community near Reading, [[Pennsylvania]].<ref name=familysearch/> Harold Ichter was an employee of the [[United States Postal Service]] and the Pennsylvania [[National Guard]]; the family was hardly impacted by the [[Great Depression]] because of the father's two paychecks. With the attack on [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, the senior Ichter was sent to [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], [[Louisiana]], to be an umpire for the war games at nearby [[United States Army]] camps. As a result of this move, the younger Ichter came into contact with Southern Baptists. He graduated a semester early in 1943 from Bolton High School in Alexandria.<ref name=familysearch/> |