Abigail A. Urick
Jan 1, 1753
Miss Abigail A. Urick, of Meadville, died Sunday at the Crawford County Infirmary following a long illness.
Miss Urick was bookkeeper for the Meadville Telephone Co. from 1921 to 1946, when she retired. She was secretary to the president of Joseph Horne Co. in Pittsburgh for 20 years.
Miss Urick was...
Alma Yokes
Jan 1, 1753
Miss Alma Yokes, 85, died at the Ida M. Cribbs Methodist Home Thursday morning after a year's illness.
Born near Conneautville, she had lived in Crawford County all her life, a number of years being spent at Harmonsburg. Following the deaths of her parents, she entered Cribbs Home April 18, 1947.
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George P. Theuret
Jan 1, 1753
George P. Theuret, 70, died Saturday morning at the home of a sister, Mrs. R. B. Doubet, Wayne Township, where he had made his home for several years.
Mr. Theuret was a member of St. Hippolyte's R. C. Church, Frenchtown.
He is survived by a second sister, Miss Elizabeth Theuret, both...
Xavier F. Brown
Jan 1, 1753
Xavier F. Brown, 77, of Randolph Township, died Monday, evening after a long illness. He was a former resident of East Mead Township.
Mr. Brown is survived by his widow; a son, Melvin of Randolph; a daughter, Mrs. Howard Stearns of Hysetown; one grandchild; and a sister, Mrs. Charles Alzingre of Meadville; and two brothers,...
Benn E. Nelson
Jan 1, 1753
Benn E. Nelson, 51, died suddenly Thursday night at his Meadville home.
He was born in New Castle and has lived in Meadville for the past 25 years. He was a graduate of Allegheny College, Class of 1916, and was formerly a teacher in the high schools in New Castle, Salamanca, NY and Saegertown. He...
Dr. Armen Kalfayan
Jan 1, 1753
Dr. Armen Kalfayan, 60, of Meadville, died Sunday at City Hospital where he had been a patient two weeks. He was professor of modern languages at Allegheny College.
Although ill about a year, he continued part-time teaching through most of the first semester of the 1953-54 school year.
A native of...
Helen Huson Hanks
Jan 1, 1753
Helen Huson Hanks, wife of J. Edgar Hanks, of Richmond Township, died Monday morning at Meadville City Hospital after a long illness.
Mrs. Hanks spent most of her life in Richmond Township. Besides her husband, she is survived by her mother, Mrs. Theodore Spaid of Woodcock Township, and two brothers, Lee Huson of Saegertown and...
George L. Williams
Jan 1, 1753
George L. Williams, 68, of Meadville, who for the past 23 years had been on the maintenance staff at Allegheny College, died early Thursday morning at the Crawford County Infirmary. He had been ill the past three weeks.
Mr. Williams was a member of the F. O. Eagles, LOO Moose, and Italian Civic Club.
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Thomas F. Thornton
Jan 1, 1753
Thomas F. Thornton, 68, died Tuesday morning at Spencer Hospital after an illness of two weeks.
Mr. Thornton was a member of the Sacred Heart R. C. Church in Youngstown, OH. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, Fort Pitt Division and of the McKeesport Lodge of the L. O. O. Moose....
Elizabeth Echnoz
Jan 1, 1753
Elizabeth Echnoz, wife of Edward Echnoz, died Monday morning at Spencer Hospital where she had been a patient for a week. She had resided her entire life in Randolph Township, where she was well known and had a host of friends, and was a member of St. Hippolyte's RC Church.
Besides her husband, she is...
Violet E. Drake
Jan 1, 1753
Mrs. Violet E. Drake, 83, died early Monday at the Meadville Children's Aid Society and Home for the Aged, where she had resided for 12 years.
She was the widow of C. Judd Drake and a daughter of the late Sam and Nancy Winans, former residents of Lyona. She was a member of the Cambridge...
James J. Pitt
Jan 1, 1753
James J. Pitt, a former Crawford Countian, died Tuesday at his home at Clyde, NY, where he had lived for the past 11 years.
He was born April 1, 1891, in Randolph Township, a son of Peter and Anna Monnin Pitt. He was a veteran of World War I.
Surviving are...
John H. Niles
Jan 1, 1753
John H. Niles, 63, formerly of Kerrtown, died Saturday morning at Warren State Hospital after an illness of five years.
A machinist, he was employed at Phoenix Iron Works and later by Pennsylvania State Highway Department and Allegheny College maintenance department.
He was a son of the late Fred and Louisa...
Rush Shafer
Jan 1, 1753
Rush Shafer, 68, maintenance man at Daniel Cozy Court for many years, died yesterday morning at Spencer Hospital from injuries received in a fall Friday.
Before moving to Meadville seven years ago, Mr. Shafer operated a farm in Union Township for many years.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Ray Miller of...
Lynn H. Wygant
Jan 1, 1753
Lynn H. Wygant, 68, of Guys Mills, died early Saturday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Bernice Miller, of Meadville, following an illness of several weeks.
He had resided in Meadville for many years until last fall, when he and Mrs. Wygant moved to Guys Mills where they had lived at one time. ...
William Britton Trace
Jan 1, 1753
A son born to Mr. and Mrs. William F. Trace at City Hospital Saturday morning died at the hospital Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Trace is a member of the army signal corps stationed in Honolulu and Mrs. Trace resides with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Britton of Meadville.
Surviving, in...
Sherman Grove
Jan 1, 1753
Sherman Grove, 83, well-known resident of the Black Ash vicinity, died Tuesday morning at Spencer Hospital, following a long illness.
He was the last of eight children of Hayes and Amanda Archer Grove. He spent his early life in Plum Township, Venango County, and later became a drilling contractor in oil fields in several states....
Theodore J. Gunn
Jan 1, 1753
Mrs. Sarah Beck Gunn, 66, wife of Theodore J. Gunn, of Meadville, died at her home yesterday following a long period of ill health.
She spent her early life in Pittsburgh and was the daughter of the late George and Clara Barr Beck. After moving to Crawford County in 1919, she lived in Guys Mills...
Elena Marie Lazzaro
Jan 1, 1753
Elena Marie Lazzaro, 18, of Meadville, was killed Wednesday, October 14, 1992, in an automobile accident in Evansville, IN.
She was born in Greenville, August 30, 1974, a daughter of Gerald A. and Susan M. Duelfer Lazzaro of Meadville.
She was a 1992 graduate of Meadville Area Senior High School.
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Edna L. Vanmarter
Jan 1, 1753
Miss Edna L. VanMarter, 73, of Meadville, died Wednesday afternoon at City Hospital after a brief illness.
A daughter of the late Isaac N. and Elizabeth Bunting VanMarter, she spent her early life in Woodcock Township. She taught school in this area for 28 years, about 25 of them in Meadville City Schools.
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