Mar 25, 2002

June E. Kough, 71, of 8787 Hemlock Drive, Meadville, died Monday March 25, 2002, at Meadville Medical Center.

She was born in Morgantown, WV, December 12, 1930, a daughter of William E. & Effie Walters Shank.  She married William F. Kough, December 25, 1948, and he preceded her in death Nov. 28, 1995.

She was...

Mar 22, 2002

Carole M. Burford, 65, of Jamestown, died Friday, March 22, 2002 at her home.

Born in Sabinsville, October 20, 1936, she was a daughter of Ralph Loren and Agnes Onalee Roberts Lovell.

She was a 1954 graduate of Cowanesque High School, Westfield.  She worked as a waitress and bartender at various...

Mar 21, 2002

Helen R. Lepley, 83, formerly of Meadville, and a resident of 809 Forest Drive, Oxon Hill, MD, died Thursday March 21, 2002, at Villa Rosa Nursing Home, Mitchellville, MD, where she has lived since Nov. 1994.

She was born in Meadville, April 17, 1918, a daughter of Edward & Anna Marhofer Reuter.  She married Edward C. Lepley...

Mar 21, 2002

Dollie Irene Heffern, 86, of 21171 Blooming Valley Road, Meadville died Thursday, March 21, 2002 at the Meadville Medical Center, after a period of failing health.

She was born December 2, 1915 in Meadville a daughter of Henry A. and Myrtle I. Minnis Cornell.  She married Ralph L. Heffern April 26, 1939 and he survives.

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Mar 21, 2002

Howard James Shafer, 89, of 20775 Blooming Valley Rd., Meadville and formerly of RD#1, Cambridge Springs, died Thursday, March 21, 2002 at Meadville Medical Center.

He was born June 25, 1912 in Union Township, Crawford County, a son of the late Rush George and Elsie Caroline Brown Shafer.  He married I. Jean Seaman April 4, 1940 and...

Mar 19, 2002

Harriette M. Williams, 87, of State College, formerly of Meadville, died Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at Centre Community Hospital, State College.

She was born May 25, 1914 in Meadville, a daughter of the late Edgar H. and Frances Spitler Leberman.  On June 19, 1937, she married John J. Williams, who survives at Brookline Village, State...

Mar 14, 2002

Frances (Fran) Dempsey, 84, formerly of 218 Chestnut St., Meadville and a resident of Wesbury United Methodist Retirement Community since January 2, 2002, died there Thursday, March 14, 2002 following a period of declining health. She was born May 15, 1917 in Sunville, Venango, County, a daughter of the late Lewis and Rachel Duplain Ribb. She married Charles D....

Mar 14, 2002

Frances (Fran) Dempsey, 84, formerly of 218 Chestnut St., Meadville and a resident of Wesbury United Methodist Retirement Community since January 2, 2002, died there Thursday, March 14, 2002 following a period of declining health.

She was born May 15, 1917 in Sunville, Venango, County, a daughter of the late Lewis and Rachel Duplain Ribb.  She married...

Mar 12, 2002

Miss Naomi R. Steadman, formerly of New York City, Diamond, and Titusville, a resident of Holland Towers, Meadville and a patient at Wesbury United Methodist Community since Dec. 2000, died at Meadville Medical Center, Tuesday, March 12, 2002.

She was born in Conneaut, Ohio, a daughter of George & Florence Proper Steadman.  She was a graduate of...

Mar 8, 2002

Robert Edward Polk, 19, of 111 Asbury Manor, East, Meadville, died Friday, March 8, 2002, near Harrisburg, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.

He was born in Tampa, Fla., Jan. 2, 1983, a son of Alberta Eccles & Robert M. Polk.  He was engaged to marry Kimberly Sue Peterson who also died in the accident.

Mar 8, 2002

Kimberly Sue Peterson, 17, of 22 N. Forest St., Halifax, PA and formerly of Meadville, died Friday, March 8, 2002 of injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Harrisburg.

She was born June 3, 1984 in Meadville, a daughter of Walter and Tammy Crawford Peterson, Jr.  She had been engaged to marry Robert Edward Polk who also...

Mar 7, 2002

Leora M. Getty, 85, a Woodcock Twp. Resident for many years, and a resident of Crawford County Care Center since May 1991, died there Thursday March 7, 2002, after a period of declining health.

She was born in Meadville, April 2, 1916, a daughter of the late Orville & Alice Mabel Reichel Maloney. ...

Mar 6, 2002

Ann E. Watson, 56, of Hereford, PA and formerly of the Meadville area, died Wednesday, March 6, 2002 at her residence following a lengthy illness.

She was born December 4, 1945 in Meadville, a daughter of the late Joseph A. and Ruby Johnston Eells.  She married William James (Jim) Watson September 15, 1964 and he survives.

Mar 4, 2002

Eva Mae Olsen, 98, formerly of Cochranton, a resident of Wesbury United Methodist Retirement Community from July 1982 to December 1996, and a resident of the Masonic Homes, Elizabethtown since December 1996, died there Monday, March 4, 2002.

She was born October 20, 1903 in Hadley, a daughter of the late Russell F. and Albertina Dean Beal. ...

Mar 4, 2002

John H.P. “Johnny” Shafer, 20, of 21299 Ball Road, Venango, PA died Monday, March 4, 2002 at the Meadville Medical Center following complications due to pneumonia.

He was born in Meadville September 1, 1981 a son of John R. and Constance Pattin Shafer.

He attended schools through U.C.I.P. (United Community Independence Programs), special classes at...

Mar 2, 2002

Theodore Michael Johnson, 22, of 213 Wood Street, Meadville died at home March 2, 2002.

He was born in Meadville July 20, 1979 a son of Lance A. and Diane M. Chmura Johnson.

He was a graduate of Meadville High School and a member of St. Brigid Roman Catholic Church.  He was an avid hiker,...

Mar 1, 2002

Beverly Ann Stein, 70, of 11686 Oakview Road, Conneaut Lake, died Friday March 1, 2002, at Crawford County Care Center, Saegertown, where she had been a patient since January 24, 2002.

She was born in Meadville August 11, 1931, a daughter of the late Kenneth and Helen Johnston Rupp.  She married Richard F. Stein March 3, 1962,...

Mar 1, 2002

Helen Mae Wescott, 86, a resident of Meadville, died Friday, March 1, 2002 at the Meadville Medical Center after a lengthy illness.

Born in Tidioute, PA December 2, 1915, she was the daughter of William Robert and Ina Ellen Thompsett Jenkins.  She married Norman Louis Wescott in Meadville on September 17, 1938 and he preceded her in...

Feb 23, 2002

Florence Marie Wilson, 87, a resident for most of her life in Western PA and Northeastern Ohio, died Saturday February 23, 2002, at Ashtabula County Medical Center, Ashtabula, Ohio.

She was born in West Albion, Erie County, PA, February 21, 1915, a daughter of Charles and Althea Shauberger Peck.  She married Lt. Commander, James E. Wilson, USN...

Feb 22, 2002

John H. Bailey, II, M.D., 86 of 393 Hamilton Ave., Meadville, and a summer resident of Conneaut Lake died Saturday, February 22, 2002 at Wesbury United Methodist Retirement Community. He was born in Philadelphia Aug. 11, 1916, a son of the late John H. and Martha MacConnell Bailey, Sr. He married Elizabeth J. (Betty) Henderson May 3, 1944 and...