Ruth Irene Whetsel Groppi Kirkpatrick
Ruth Irene Whetsel Groppi Kirkpatrick, 88 of Uniontown, PA died Tuesday June 29, 2010 in the Uniontown Hospital. She was born October 11, 1921 in Waltersburg, PA. Preceding her in death were her parents Earl Charles Whetsel and Edna I. Hagar Whetsel, her husband Tito (Ted) Groppi, four brothers, Harry, William, Earl and Charles Whetsel and two sisters, Dorothy Young and Alice Minehart.
Ruth was a member of the Uniontown Free Methodist Church and previously worked as a seamstress at the Michael Berkowitz Company.
Surviving are three sisters, Betty Coughenour of Niagara Falls, NY, Garnet L. Malinzak and Walter Smith of Oliver, PA and Patricia Slack of West Palm Beach, FL and many nieces and nephews.
Friends will be received in the JEROME W. SHELL FUNERAL HOME 164 S. Mt. Vernon Ave. Uniontown, PA on Friday from 6 to 8 PM and on Saturday until 11 AM the hour of service with the Rev. E.W. Cowsert officiating.
Interment will follow in Oak Lawn Cemetery.