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Alice Marie Daley
beloved wife, mother and grandmother
SMETHPORT, PA - Alice Marie Daley died in her home in McKean County on Friday (March 6, 2009).
In her final years she got to know her great-granddaughter, Violet, do some traveling, participate in the Smethport Garden Club, watch birds at her feeders, sing and play hymns on her piano.
Alice was born to Eunice Lee and James Wesley Van Hoose in New Castle, Ind. on March 31, 1921. After graduating from New Castle High School, she attended Anderson College and Theological Seminary in Anderson, Ind. to "find a preacher to marry." She found Virgil Weldon Daley of Ellington, NY, who later became a Church of God minister and Army chaplain, attaining the rank of colonel. The couple was married at Park Place Church of God in Anderson on Dec. 2, 1943. She did not graduate from college because her first son, Larry Eugene, was born. After college she and Virgil pastored a church in Gambrels, Md., where their second son, Jerry Weldon, was born. After five years at Gambrels, Virgil was commissioned in the Army. Twenty-two years and many homes in several counties later they retired from the Army and moved permanently to McKean County. In retirement they were either full time or part time pastors at churches in Punxsutawney, Kane or Eldred.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Lulu Mae; and a brother, Clyde.
She leaves her husband, Virgil, in McKean County; son, Larry, and his wife Barbara, in Amherst, Ohio; grandson, Michael and his wife, Theresa, in Orlando, Fla., grandson, Jason and his wife, Holly; great-granddaughter, Violet in Loraine, Ohio; son, Jerry, and his wife Helen in Saint Marys, Pa; and Helen's daughter, Heather Holzer (maiden name Dreier) in Altoona, Pa.
Friends may call at the Frame Funeral Home in Eldred on Monday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday (March 10, 2009) at 11 a.m. at the First Church of God, Eldred, with the Rev. James Kazimer, pastor, officiating. Committal services will be held at Clermont Cemetery.
The family requests memorials be made to the First Church of God.
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