Aleta Zuck

Aleta Zuck, 88, a former Erie resident and a resident of Wesbury United Methodist Community, Meadville since January 1999, died there Saturday Dec. 9, 2006 following a one-week illness.

She was born in Conneautville Nov. 9, 1918, a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Wilbur J. and Agnes Wygant Baldwin.  She married Clark F. Zuck Dec. 21, 1939.

Aleta was a 1936 graduate of Meadville High School, and had assisted her husband in their turkey and greenhouse businesses in Erie for many years and also operated Zuck’s Townhouse for 7 years.

She was active in the United Methodist Church for many years and more recently has been affiliated with the Religious Society of Friends of Pittsburgh.

In Erie, Aleta had been a member of the Board of Directors of the Florence Crittendon Home, the Community Shelter Services, the League of Women Voters, and the Edmund Thomas Detention Center.  She had also been a volunteer with the Regional Cancer Center for 10 years and had been a member of the Erie Symphonic Singers under Obed Grender and later Jean Verdecchia.

Survivors, in addition to her husband, include 2 sons, Martin Zuck and his wife Joyce,  Fairview and Todd Zuck and his wife Tamara, Fairview; 2 daughters, Sally McBain and her husband Kenneth, Madoc, Ontario and Christine Jacobson, Fredonia, NY; 9 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren; and also nieces and nephews.  She was preceded in death by 3 sisters, Ethel Polliard, Margaret Laughlin, and Esther Steele and 2 brothers, Morris Baldwin and the Rev. Clarence Baldwin.

A visitation and memorial service will be held next spring at a time and date to be announced.

Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery, Fairview.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Religious Society of Friends, 4836 Ellsworth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213 or Wesbury United Methodist Community, 31 N. Park Ave., Meadville, PA 16335.

Robert W. Waid Funeral Home, Inc., 581 Chestnut St., Meadville is in charge of arrangements.