Bollie Chen Briggs
May 20, 1968
Mrs. Bollie Chen Briggs, 58, of Meadville, died May 20, 1968, at Spencer Hospital after an illness of several years.
Mrs. Briggs was born in Canton, China, February 16, 1910. She married Zephra G. Briggs, a native of Blooming Valley, February 10, 1941. He had served in the Navy from 1919 to 1941, much of...
Ellouise M. Comstock
May 1, 1968
Mrs. Ellouise M. Comstock, 81, of Lyndhurst, OH, died Wednesday, May 1, 1968, at Euclid Manor Nursing Home, Cleveland, where she had been a patient for sin months.
Mrs. Comstock was born at Woodcock Borough March 13, 1887, a daughter of Charles O. and Hattie Rust Beige. She was the widow of Charles D. Comstock...
William P. Sipe
Apr 25, 1968
The Rev. William P. Sipe, 85, former superintendent of the Ida M. Cribbs Methodist Home at Conneautville, died Thursday, April 25, 1968, at Spencer Hospital after a long illness. He and his wife entered the Methodist Home for the Aged on Park Ave. last September.
The Rev. Mr. Sipe was superintendent of the Cribbs Home,...
Ressie Luella Clemons
Apr 25, 1968
Mrs. Ressie Luella Clemons, 84, a resident of the Methodist Home for the Aged, died Thursday, April 25, 1968, at City Hospital.
She was born in Randolph Township July 27, 1883, a daughter of O. Dexter and Lucy Jones Hanks. She was a graduate of Edinboro Normal School and taught schools in Troy, Randolph, and...
Herman A. Smith
Apr 15, 1968
Herman A. Smith, 81, of Meadville, died suddenly Monday, April 15, 1968 at Hamot Hospital, Erie.
Mr. Smith was born in Guys Mills, January 6, 1887, a son of William and Flora Davison Smith. He was married to the former Winifred Titus, who died previously.
He was owner and operator of...
Fern Applegate
Apr 13, 1968
Mrs. Fern Applegate, 78, of Guys Mills, died suddenly at home Saturday, April 13, 1968. She was born in Randolph Township August 25, 1889, a daughter of Williams S. and Della Fairbanks Cutshall. She married Ward M. Applegate December 11, 1906. He died in 1961. She was a housewife, a member of United Church of Guys Mills and its...
Fern (Cutshall) Applegate
Apr 13, 1968
Mrs. Fern Applegate, 78, of Guys Mills, died suddenly at home Saturday, April 13, 1968.
She was born in Randolph Township August 25, 1889, a daughter of Williams S. and Della Fairbanks Cutshall. She married Ward M. Applegate December 11, 1906. He died in 1961.
She was a housewife, a member...
Mildred M. Myers
Apr 10, 1968
Mrs. Mildred M. Myers, 51, of Reno, NV, died Wednesday, April 10, 1968, at St. Mary's Hospital in Reno.
She was born in Meadville September 26, 1915, a daughter of Millard E. and Edna E. Clark.
Surviving are two sons, Thomas Frederick Myers and Dennis Clark Myers, both of Reno; four...
Edna B. Hunter
Apr 8, 1968
Mrs. Edna B. Hunter, 70, of Phoenix, AZ, formerly of Meadville, died Monday, April 8, 1968, at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix, after an illness of a year.
She and her late husband, Lewis B. Hunter, operated the Crysler-Plymouth agency in Meadville from 1941 to 1948. They moved to Phoenix in 1948 where he died...
Max C. Mcgranahan
Mar 31, 1968
Max C. McGranahan, 52, of Meadville, died suddenly Sunday, March 31, 1968, at Smith Institute, Saegertown, where he had been a patient for one month.
He was born in Harmonsburg July 13, 1915, a son of Harry R. and Mabel DePue McGranahan. His mother died three weeks ago.
Mr. McGranahan attended...
Fred James Barr
Mar 23, 1968
Fred James Barr, 85, of Meadville, died March 23, 1968 at City Hospital.
He was born in Summit Township on December 18, 1882, a son of John T. and Maria Sheldon Barr. He was never married. He was a farmer near Conneautville until entering a nursing home in 1961.
He is...
Rev. Walter T. Riemann
Mar 21, 1968
The Rev. Walter T. Riemann, 76, of Aldan Clifton Heights, Philadelphia, a former Meadville resident and former minister at Harmonsburg, died Thursday, March 21, 1968, after a long illness.
The Rev. Mr. Riemann served as pastor of Harmonsburg Presbyterian Church a number of years ago prior to becoming pastor of Emmanuel Presbyterian Church at Erie....
Pearl Johnston
Mar 14, 1968
Mrs. Pearl Johnston, 80, formerly of Meadville, died after an extended illness Thursday, March 14, 1968, at the Conneautville Nursing Home where she had been a patient for the past year.
She was born March 7, 1888, in Hartstown, a daughter of James and Anna McVickers Hofias. She married Thurman W. Johnston in 1907. He...
Philip R. Duffy
Mar 13, 1968
Philip R. Duffy, 74, of Alpena, MI, formerly of Meadville, died Wednesday, March 13, 1968, at Miami, FL of a heart attack while visiting friends.
He was born in Sharon, July 3, 1893, and was employed as a machinist for the Universal Fluid Dynamics Co. of Michigan. He was a member of Masonic Lodge at...
Lora K. Dunn
Mar 12, 1968
Mrs. Lora K. Dunn, 72, of Meadville, died Tuesday, March 12, 1968, at City Hospital where she had been a patient for the past six weeks.
She was born in Ripley, WV, January 16, 1896, a daughter of Delmer E. and Laura Elizabeth Corbin Kessell. She married J.M. Dunn May 29, 1930.
...
Mabel H. Mcgranahan
Mar 10, 1968
Mrs. Mabel H. McGranahan, 83, of Meadville, died Sunday, March 10, 1968, at Overlook House, Cleveland, where she had been a patient five days.
She was born at Dicksonburg, May 16, 1884, a daughter of John and Edith Palmenteer DePue. Her husband, Harry R. McGranahan, died in 1960.
Mrs. McGranahan was...
Wade A. George
Mar 7, 1968
Wade A. George, 58, commercial supervisor for Pennsylvania Electric Co. here since May 1948, died at Spencer Hospital on Thursday, March 7, 1968, following an illness of two years.
George first went to work for Penelec as a clerk in the company's Oil City office in 1929. He was named manager of collection in 1936...
James Blaine Frazier
Mar 6, 1968
James Blaine Frazier, 76, of Venango, died shortly before midnight, Wednesday, March 6, 1968, at St. Vincent Hospital, Erie, where he had been a patient for two weeks.
He was born in Hayfield Township, April 19, 1891, a son of John and Lettie Carman Frazier. He retired in 1957 from the shipping department of the...
Leon P. Mook
Feb 29, 1968
Leon P. Mook, 72, of Guys Mills, died Thursday, February 29, 1968, at City Hospital where he had been a patient for three weeks.
He was born in Randolph Township, October 1, 1895, a son of Jesse P. and Henrietta Smock Mook. He married Elsie May Weaver on June 14, 1952. He was a farmer...
June S. Neff
Feb 28, 1968
Mrs. June S. Neff, 93, died Wednesday evening, February 28, 1968, at the Methodist Home for the Aged.
Mrs. Neff was born at Beaver Valley, Forest County, May 8, 1874, a daughter of Clinton S. and Elizabeth Siggens Smith. She entered the former Ida M. Cribbs Methodist Home at Conneautville, September 23, 1950, and came...