Beatrice M. Ritchey Vance
Beatrice M. Ritchey Vance, age 84, of Uniontown, Pa., died Friday, January 19, 2007, in the Uniontown Hospital. She was born February 19, 1922, in Coal Brook, Pa., the daughter of Albert Ritchey and Hazel Trader Ritchey.
Beatrice graduated from the now former Redstone High School with the Class of 1940.
She was a member of Trinity United Presbyterian Church.
She had been employed by the former Union Supply Company and also Metzler’s Department Store, Uniontown.
Beatrice was a homemaker who was devoted to her family and her church.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her brother, Harold “H. D.” Ritchey, and her sister, Jacqueline Ritchey Breakiron.
Beatrice is survived by her husband of 63 years, William E. Vance; two daughters: Nancy Jones and her husband, Daniel, of Camp Hill, Pa., and Billie Jane Kelley and her husband, Rod, of Morgantown, West Virginia; four grandchildren: Jennifer Barouch and her husband, Nat, Daniel Jones Jr. and his wife, Kate, Susannah Jones Lucas and her husband, Brian, and Aaron Jones; and three great-granddaughters: Isadora Jones, Estelle Jones and Hope Barouch.
Arrangements have been entrusted to the ANDREW D. FERGUSON FUNERAL HOME INC., 80 Morgantown Street, Uniontown, Pa.
The family received friends in the funeral on Monday, January 22, 2007, from 2 until 4 and 7 until 9 p.m.
Visitation will continue today (Tuesday, January 23, 2007) in TRINITY UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Uniontown, from 10 until 11 a.m. followed by a celebration of her life at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Michael I. Orstead officiating.
Interment will follow in LaFayette Memorial Park, Brier Hill, Pa.
Memorial donations can be made to Trinity United Presbyterian Church, corner of Morgantown and Fayette streets, Uniontown, PA 15401.
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