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Helen Marie Hoover, a direct descendent
of Captain John McCollough and William S. and Hannah McCollough, age
88, of Concordia Lutheran Ministries, Cabot, Pennsylvania, formerly
of Milheim Drive, Butler, Pennsylvania, and R.D. #1 Chicora,
Pennsylvania, died Friday, July 11, 2008 at 4:11 a.m. in the Good
Samaritan Hospice Unit at Concordia.
Born April 8, 1920 in Chicora,
Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of the late Frederick Herbert
(Herb) and Loretta Callihan McCollough.
Mrs. Hoover 's employment included
the Butler County Agricultural Agency, the former Jay Shoppe in
Butler and also managed her own sales consultants for Fashion Two
Twenty Cosmetics in Butler. She was a member of the First English
Lutheran Church in Chicora, Pennsylvania. As a member of the Butler
Memorial Hospital's Ladies Auxiliary she volunteered as the jewelry
buyer for the Cherry Tree Gift Shop. Her love of music was expressed
as a member of the Pedal Pushers Club.
Ms. Hoover is survived by one son,
David Herbert (Herb) Frazer of Chicora, Pennsylvania; four
daughters, Marjorie Sherwin Broderick and her husband, Tom, of
Forest Hills, Pennsylvania, Mary Phaneuf and her husband, Richard,
of Sarasota, Florida, Carol L. Frazer of Carnegie, Pennsylvania, and
Susan Matthews and her husband, Terry, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
eight grandchildren and nine great grandchildren, one sister, Jean
R. Dornon of the Passavant Retirement Village, Zelienople,
Pennsylvania and by one niece, one nephew, and one great nephew.
Ms. Hoover was preceded in death by
one brother, Charles (Chuck) R. McCollough and two grandchildren.
Friends will be received at the
Thompson-Miller Funeral Home, Inc., 124 East North Street, Butler,
Pennsylvania on Sunday, July 13, 2008 from 4 to 9.
Services will be held at the Thompson
- Miller Funeral Home, Inc. on Monday, July 14, 2008 at 1:00 p.m.
with Reverend Jack Hartman, Chaplain of Concordia Lutheran
Ministries, officiating. Interment will follow in Hillview Cemetery
in Chicora, Pennsylvania.
Helen established The F. H.
McCollough and Helen M. McCollough Clinical Opthalmology Research
Fund, UPMC Health System Department of Development, 200 Lothrop
Street , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-2582. The family requests
contributions to this fund be considered as an option to flowers. |
A Life Remembered . . .