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Ardeth H. O'Connor
loving wife, mother, and grandmother
PORTVILLE, NY - Ardeth H. O'Connor of Butternut Brook Road passed away Thursday (March 3, 2011) at Olean General Hospital.
Born in Leeper, PA, on April 19, 1921, she was a daughter of the late Edwin and Annetta McGuire Walter. On Feb. 7, 1948, in Niagara Falls, she married James M. O'Connor, who survives.
Ardeth was a resident of Butternut Brook Road since 1958. During the 1940s, she was employed at Bell Aircraft Corp.
She was a member of Sacred Heart Church and its Altar Society. Ardeth was a great bridge player. She loved reading and was an avid golfer and Yankees fan.
Surviving besides her husband are a daughter, Barbara O'Connor of Los Lunas, NM; a son, Charles O'Connor of Portville; two granddaughters, Elizabeth (Oscar) Gaines of Olean and Katherine O'Connor of Manhattan; three brothers, Lloyd Walter and James Walter, both of Erie, PA; and George Walter of Vowinkel, PA; a sister, Leah Crawford of Philadelphia, PA; and several nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by a daughter-in-law, Patricia O'Connor; and three sisters.
The family will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Guenther Funeral Home, Inc., 51 S. Main St., Portville. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 1:30 p.m. Monday (March 7, 2011) at Sacred Heart Oratory in Portville, with Father Gregory Dobson, pastor, as celebrant. Burial will be in St. Bonaventure Cemetery, Allegany.
Memorials, if desired, may be made to the Portville Free Library.
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