Delna Ruth Sawdy, 92, formerly of Cherry Hill Road, Albion, died Thursday, June 7, 2001, at Pleasant Ridge Manor West, Fairview Township, after a lengthy illness.
She was born July 24, 1908, in Verona, Allegheny County, a daughter of the late William Jack Davis and Lula Mae Milliken Davis.
Delna was a member of Grace United Methodist Church and the Lincoln Club of Albion. She graduated from Albion High School and Edinboro Normal School and retired as a kindergarten teacher for the Northwestern and Conneaut Township school districts.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Merl Sawdy, in 1997; two sisters, Helen Estelle Davis and Martha Elmira Shannon, and three brothers, Harold Nathaniel, Earl Kier and Frank Lloyd Davis.
Survivors include five children; William, of Cransville, Charles of Conneaut, Ohio, Larry and Joanne Strasser of Erie and Marjorie Lawrence of Albion: a sister, Margaret Ada Beery of Albion; 24 grandchildren, 41 great grandchildren; three great-great grandchildren.
Friends called at Samuel J Steff Funeral Home with services there.
Burial at Albion cemetery.
She was born July 24, 1908, in Verona, Allegheny County, a daughter of the late William Jack Davis and Lula Mae Milliken Davis.
Delna was a member of Grace United Methodist Church and the Lincoln Club of Albion. She graduated from Albion High School and Edinboro Normal School and retired as a kindergarten teacher for the Northwestern and Conneaut Township school districts.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Merl Sawdy, in 1997; two sisters, Helen Estelle Davis and Martha Elmira Shannon, and three brothers, Harold Nathaniel, Earl Kier and Frank Lloyd Davis.
Survivors include five children; William, of Cransville, Charles of Conneaut, Ohio, Larry and Joanne Strasser of Erie and Marjorie Lawrence of Albion: a sister, Margaret Ada Beery of Albion; 24 grandchildren, 41 great grandchildren; three great-great grandchildren.
Friends called at Samuel J Steff Funeral Home with services there.
Burial at Albion cemetery.
Delna Ruth Sawdy, 92, formerly of Cherry Hill Road, Albion, died Thursday, June 7, 2001, at Pleasant Ridge Manor West, Fairview Township, after a lengthy illness.
She was born July 24, 1908, in Verona, Allegheny County, a daughter of the late William Jack Davis and Lula Mae Milliken Davis.
Delna was a member of Grace United Methodist Church and the Lincoln Club of Albion. She graduated from Albion High School and Edinboro Normal School and retired as a kindergarten teacher for the Northwestern and Conneaut Township school districts.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Merl Sawdy, in 1997; two sisters, Helen Estelle Davis and Martha Elmira Shannon, and three brothers, Harold Nathaniel, Earl Kier and Frank Lloyd Davis.
Survivors include five children; William, of Cransville, Charles of Conneaut, Ohio, Larry and Joanne Strasser of Erie and Marjorie Lawrence of Albion: a sister, Margaret Ada Beery of Albion; 24 grandchildren, 41 great grandchildren; three great-great grandchildren.
Friends called at Samuel J Steff Funeral Home with services there.
Burial at Albion cemetery.
She was born July 24, 1908, in Verona, Allegheny County, a daughter of the late William Jack Davis and Lula Mae Milliken Davis.
Delna was a member of Grace United Methodist Church and the Lincoln Club of Albion. She graduated from Albion High School and Edinboro Normal School and retired as a kindergarten teacher for the Northwestern and Conneaut Township school districts.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Merl Sawdy, in 1997; two sisters, Helen Estelle Davis and Martha Elmira Shannon, and three brothers, Harold Nathaniel, Earl Kier and Frank Lloyd Davis.
Survivors include five children; William, of Cransville, Charles of Conneaut, Ohio, Larry and Joanne Strasser of Erie and Marjorie Lawrence of Albion: a sister, Margaret Ada Beery of Albion; 24 grandchildren, 41 great grandchildren; three great-great grandchildren.
Friends called at Samuel J Steff Funeral Home with services there.
Burial at Albion cemetery.
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