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Leslie L. "Les" Hilgar, age 83, of
Butler, Pennsylvania, died Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 9:45 a.m.
in the Good Samaritan Hospice Unit at Concordia in Cabot,
Pennsylvania. Born May 5, 1926
in Euclid, Pennsylvania, he was the son of the late Andrew Lee
Hilgar and Edith Fleeger Hilgar.
Mr. Hilgar was a Systems Analyst for
Spang Company, retiring in 1982. He also sold real estate for the
former Weldon-West Agency in Butler. He graduated from West Sunbury
Vocational High School in 1944; he then went on to graduate from
Grove City College in 1950. He loved sports, such as hunting,
fishing, and especially baseball. He played baseball for the Air
Corp in Austria in 1945-1946 while serving with the U.S. Army 10th
Airborne Squadron during World War II and for the Butler Cubs from
1946-1950. He also enjoyed woodworking. Mr. Hilgar was a member of
First Baptist Church of Butler, where he served on the First Baptist
Church School Board for many years.
Mr. Hilgar is survived by his wife,
Delores I. (Dee Dee) Hilgar, whom he married on June 2, 1948, by
five sons, Dale and his wife, Linda Hilgar of Eau Claire,
Pennsylvania, Ray and his wife, Valerie Hilgar of Chicora,
Pennsylvania, Keith Hilgar of Landrum, South Carolina, Vernon Hilgar
of Butler, Mark Hilgar and Kathy Long of Butler, and one daughter,
Laura and her husband, Randall Wyant of Rochester, New York; ten
grandchildren, Leann Covert, Erin Wampler, Scott Hilgar, Jonathan
Wyant, Cherith Shuboney, Emily Hilgar, Anna Hilgar, Christopher
Hilgar, Sara Hilgar, and Dustin Hilgar; seven great grandchildren, a
number of nieces, nephews, and cousins, and two sisters, Mrs.
Delores Glenn and Mrs. Donald (Shirley) McCandless II, both of of
West Sunbury.
In addition to his parents, Mr.
Hilgar was preceded in death by one granddaughter, Andrea Hilgar,
and one brother, John V. Hilgar.
Friends will be received at the
Thompson-Miller Funeral Home, Inc., 124 East North Street, Butler,
Pennsylvania on Sunday, February 21, 2010 from 3:00 to 5:00 and 7:00
to 9:00 p.m.
Services will be held at the First
Baptist Church on Monday, February 22, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. with
Pastor David Maitland of First Baptist Church officiating. Interment
will follow in Butler County Memorial Park.
Memorial donations may be made to
First Baptist Christian School 221 West New Castle Street, Butler,
Pennsylvania 16001. |
A Life Remembered . . .