Anna Mary Loope, 67, of State College, PA, passed away on Thursday, September 1st. Born January 3, 1955 in Huntingdon PA, she was the daughter of the late Stella McKinnis Loope and John Loope. Anna Mary graduated in the class of 1972 from Mount Union Area High School and obtained her Associates Degree from the Central Penn School for...
Faye A. Winkelblech passed away peacefully on August 25, 2022 at the age of 90. Born in Spring Mills on April 22, 1932 she was the daughter of the late Randall Detwiler and Florence Smith and was raised by the late Merrill J. and Florence (Smith) Walker. She graduated from Gregg Township High School in 1950 and the Altoona...
Leda Henrietta Smeltzer, 98, a resident of Center Care Nursing Home, died peacefully on Friday, August 5, 2022. Born September 21, 1923 in Bigler, PA she was the daughter of Mitchell Rinehart and Verda Hubler Rinehart. On June 22nd 1943, in Conway SC, 3 days before his WWII deployment to Europe, she married, Russell E. Smeltzer, her high school...
Hubert Lloyd Barnes (94) of State College, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geochemistry at the Pennsylvania State University, died August 3, 2022, at Windy Hill Village, Philipsburg, Pennsylvania. His daughter Catherine was at his bedside. Professor Barnes was a scientist, a scholar, a loving husband, father, and grandfather; and a generous and loyal friend. He was proud of his family...
Gladys Rachau Sprankle, a resident of Wynwood House in Boalsburg, PA, passed away on Sunday, July 24, 2022. She was born on July 31, 1931, in Madisonburg, PA to Grace (Hosterman) and Miles Rachau. She is survived by a daughter, Suzanne (Edward) Grieb, of Boalsburg; a son, Michael (Galina) Sprankle, of Phoenix, AZ; a sister, Judy (Jospeh) Gentzel, of...
Mary A. Hardy, age 101, died peacefully on July 18, 2022. Mary is survived by stepdaughters, Katherine Kellogg, Nancy Schriner, and stepson, George A. Hardy, Jr. of MI, nieces and nephews, Marc Edmonston and Elisabeth Edmonston of PA, Pam Edmonston of CA, and Shirley Bishop of NC. She is predeceased by her father, Ralph W. Taylor, mother, Nettie Viola...
Glenn H. Johnstonbaugh, Jr., 94, of Port Matilda, passed away on Sunday, July 17, 2022 at Wynwood House at Greenhills in State College, after a brief battle with cancer. Glenn was born in a farmhouse near Matternville on December 7, 1927. He was the oldest of seven children born to Glenn and Margaret (Beher) Johnstonbaugh. His siblings include Jane...
Forrest W. "Frosty" Long of Boalsburg, PA passed July 16, 2022 at the age of 90. He was born in Lehighton, PA November 3, 1931 to the late John and Estella Long.
Frosty was a 1949 graduate of Lehighton High School and went on to earn his Bachelors of Science in Agriculture in 1954 and his Masters...
Nancy Luella Poust of Pine Grove Mills passed away at the age of 74 on July 8, 2022 at Mount Nittany Medical Center. Born on August 24, 1947 in DuBois, PA she was the daughter of Eugene and Mary (Longwell) Stuart.
Nancy is preceded in death by both parents and her two brothers William Stuart and Robert...
Early in the morning, on Friday, July 8th, Earl William Mann, Jr., aged 90, passed away at his home in State College surrounded by members of his family. He was born on September 6th, 1931 in York, Pennsylvania and was preceded in death by his parents, Earl, Sr. & Hazel (nee Swartz) Mann; as well as his brothers, Harry...