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David V. Wise of
Butler, the founder and former president of Wise Business Forms,
died Thursday, September 22, 2005.
He was 74 years
old. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Vernon L. Wise, Sr. of
Butler
Wise is survived by
his wife, Karen Patterson Wise, who he married on September 6,
1986.
Wise bought the
Eagle Printery in 1965 and started Wise Business Forms in Butler in
1969 after working at Harmony Drilling Co., Anderson Gas Co. and
Hardwood Corp.
For many years, Wise
was treasurer of the Eagle Printing Co., which published the Butler
Eagle.
Wise graduated from
Allegheny College in 1953 with a degree in economics and he
continued to be a vital part of the school's development.
He served in the
U.S. Army in Europe from 1953 to 1955.
He was a member of
the Nixon United Methodist Church and the Glade Run United
Presbyterian Church. He also was a member of the Butler Country
Club and the Der Sitzmark Ski Club.
He is also survived
by his brother, Vernon L. Wise, Jr. of Butler, and his sister,
Virginia Wise Prettyman of Atlanta, Georgia. Wise is survived by
his two nieces, Jamie Wise Lanier and Mary Lou McIllwraith of
Cincinnati, Ohio, and three nephews, Vernon L. Wise, III of Butler,
and William and Jeffrey Prettyman, both of Atlanta, Georgia;
in-laws, Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Patterson of Butler, and a
brother-in-law, Alan C. Patterson of Pittsburgh.
Friends will be
received at the Thompson-Miller Funeral Home, Inc., 124 East North
Street, Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, September 24, 2005 from 7
to 9 p.m. and Sunday, September 25, 2005 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9
p.m.
Services will be
held at the Glade Run United Presbyterian Church on Monday,
September 26, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. with Dr. Chris Marshall and the
Reverend Greg Weist officiating. Burial will be at the North Side
Cemetery. |
A Life Remembered . . .