Franklin, PA Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Franklin, PA, Venango County & Surrounding Areas
Marie P. Cokain
Jul 27, 2016
Marie Porter Cokain, 96 of Franklin passed away on July 27, 2016 at The Caring Place. Born June 16, 1920 in Clintonville, she was the daughter of Braden and Keith Atwell Porter. She graduated from Clintonville High School in 1937. She attended Westminster College and received a degree in business from Franklin Business School. Marie Married Harry L. Cokain on...
Ann Sberna
Jul 20, 2016
Ann Sberna, formerly of Franklin, passed peacefully on Wednesday July 20, 2016 at her home in Burbank, CA.A daughter of Harry R. and Fleta Morgan Moyer, she was born in Franklin on May 13, 1922. She was a graduate of Lakewood High School and continued her education with nurses training. A homemaker, Ann was a member of St. Patrick Church....
Rose M. Ace
Jul 14, 2016
Rose M. Ace, 75, went to be home with the Lord at 12:55 a.m. Thursday, July 14, 2016 from The Caring Place in Franklin.A daughter of Thomas E. and Freda M. Beers Stanley she was born in Franklin on February 6, 1941. Rose enjoyed crafts, sewing and crocheting and doing word search puzzles. She was thrilled to be baking cookies...
Harry V. Kidd
Jul 13, 2016
Harry V. Kidd, Jr., age 100 of Butler, passed away on Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 7:49 p.m. at Good Samaritan Hospice at Concordia in Cabot, PA.Born July 28, 1915 in Butler, PA he was the son of the late Harry V. Kidd Sr. and Jane May Slaugenhaupt Kidd.Harry graduated from Butler High School in 1934 and retired from ARMCO...
Constance D. Bailey
Jul 8, 2016
Constance D. Bailey, 84, of Franklin, died at her residence at 2:29 p.m. Friday, July 8, 2016. Connie was born in Annapolis, MD on September 24, 1931, the daughter of William Preston and Roxy Chatam Diggs. With a lifelong passion for education she earned her associate degree at Averett College in Danville, VA, in 1970 she received her bachelor's degree...
Sarah L. Ricalton
Jun 24, 2016
Sarah Lee Spackman Masters Ricalton, 86, of Franklin, daughter of William Earl and Mary Elizabeth Kissell Spackman, died June 24, 2016, after a brief illness. She was born June 11, 1930, in Jersey Shore, PA, and moved to Franklin with her family from Williamsburg, PA in 1933.Sarah (Sally) attended Franklin public schools, graduating from Franklin High in 1948. During her...
Leonard Pranevich
Jun 20, 2016
Leonard Pranevich, 64 of Polk, passed away at 4:20 A.M., Monday June 20, 2016 at Polk Center where he resided for a number of years.Born in Pittsburgh on September 26, 1951 he was a son of the late Edward and Alberta Bildstein Pranevich.Surviving is a brother, Gerard Pranevich and a step-sister, Maria Ritchey.He was preceded in death by his parents,...
Marjorie L. Mastro
Jun 16, 2016
Marjorie "Margie" Lillian (Neill) Mastro passed from this life on June 16, 2016. Margie was born in Westfield, New York, on April 11, 1936. She moved to Titusville, PA in the late 1950s with her late, first husband Raymond Bensink. She lived in Titusville from that point on. She later remarried her late, second husband Charles Mastro. Margie had four...
Marjorie Virginia Bell Kiester
Jun 16, 2016
Marjorie V. Kiester, age 95, formerly of Boyers, PA died June 16, 2016 at her daughter's home. Marjorie was born in Marion Township on Feb 13, 1921, and was the daughter of the late Herbert and Zelda Brown Bell. She was a graduate of Slippery Rock State Teachers College in 1943 and taught at Amsterdam, Mercer County: Knox: then retired...
Shirley L. Shuffstall
Jun 16, 2016
Shirley L. Shuffstall, 85, of Cooperstown, died at 4:35 p.m. Thursday June 16, 2016 at UPMC Northwest, Seneca.A daughter of Homer Wayne and Mary Boughner Beatty, she was born in Franklin on August 16, 1930.She had worked as a waitress and cafeteria cook. She and her husband had owned and operated the Wyattville Country Store.Shirley had been a member of...
Wallace Dale "Mike" Snyder
Jun 14, 2016
Wallace Dale "Mike" Snyder, 92, passed away peacefully Tuesday morning, June 14, 2016 at Sugar Creek Station, where he had resided briefly.A son of Raymond and Etta Shower Snyder, he was born in Franklin on September 7, 1923. Mike was a graduate of Rocky Grove High School and attended Penn State and the University of Cincinnati. On December 26, 1946...
Laura M. Sires
Jun 7, 2016
Laura M. Sires, 96 of Franklin passed away early Tuesday morning, June 7, 2016 at Sugar Creek Station where she has resided for the past several months.Born March 3, 1920, she was a daughter of the late James and Anna Hazlett Urey.Mrs. Sires was a homemaker. She had previously worked for a period of time in the dietary department of...
Betty J. George
Jun 6, 2016
Betty J. George, 50 of Franklin passed away unexpectedly at 10:00 A.M. Monday June 6, 2016 at a friend's home in Rouseville.Born June 11, 1965 in Butler she was a daughter of Barbara Schulter Cress and the late Clifford R. George Sr.Betty was a homemaker who loved to travel and spend time with her grandkids. In addition to her mother,...
Barbara A Lowers
May 28, 2016
Barbara A. Lowers, 80 of Harrisville, passed away Saturday May 28, 2016 at Grove City Medical Center following a brief illness. Barbara was born in Grove City on December 15, 1935 and was the daughter of the late William Hoffman and Olive Cora Gould Hoffman. Barbara was a 1953 graduate of Harrisville High School and married her husband, Paul J....
Betty Jean Hoffman
May 23, 2016
Betty Jean Hoffman, 82 of Harrisville passed away on Monday, May 23, 2016, at Select Specialty Hospital in Warren, Ohio after an extended illness.She was born on February 4, 1934 in Harrisville and was the daughter of the late Stephen Hogue and Mildred Graham Hogue.Betty was a 1952 graduate of Harrisville High School and married her husband Frederick M. Hoffman...
Lois Irene Daubenspeck
May 18, 2016
Lois Irene Daubenspeck, 88 of Boyers passed away at 4:30 A.M. Wednesday May 18, 2016 at her son's home in Jamestown, PA.Born August 12, 1927 in Boyers, she was a daughter of the late Ralph and Edith Neely Weiss.She attended the former Harrisville High School.In her earlier years, she enjoyed camping and fishing and more recently she enjoyed planting flowers...
Francis W. Fry
May 15, 2016
Francis William Fry, Jr., 76 of Franklin, PA, died on Sunday, May 15, 2016, at the Golden Living Center in Oil City, PA after an extended period of ill health.He was born on August 2, 1939, and was the only child of the late Francis William Fry, Sr., and Beatrice Schwabenbauer Fry.He married Judith Ann Blair on May 16, 1958,...
Joan R. Loeffler
May 5, 2016
Joan R. Loeffler, 92 of Franklin passed away at 8:40 P.M. Thursday May 5, 2016 at her residence. Born July 16, 1923 in Pittsburgh she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Hilda Young Rigby.Joan graduated from the University of Pittsburgh.She was involved in many organizations, including the Venango County Humane Society, Franklin Housing Authority, Franklin Civic Operetta Association,...
Carole A. Shull
May 5, 2016
Carole A. Shull, 77 of Franklin passed away at 9:15 P.M. Thursday May 5, 2016 at The Caring Place.Born December 24, 1938 in Oil City, she was a daughter of the late Kenneth R. McMillen and Bertha Swarthout Etzel.She was a graduate of Franklin High School.Carole formerly worked as a Lab Secretary at UPMC Northwest.She was an avid reader and...
Ronald Dean Sopher
May 3, 2016
Mr. Ronald Dean Sopher, 56, of River Hills Ct., Taylorsville,NC passed away Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at Frye Regional Medical Center. Mr. Sopher was born May 11, 1959 in Mercer County, PA to Dessie Marie Fix Sopher of Taylorsville and the late Jack Blaine Sopher. He attended Grace Baptist Church in the Bethlehem Community. After completion of high school, Ronald...
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