OBIT: Janet (WAGNER) MARTHOUSE, 2005, Tyrone, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Sharon Miller Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _______________________________________________ JANET W. MARTHOUSE Janet W. Marthouse, age 80, of 700 5th Street, Tyrone and a guest at Epworth Manor died Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 1:40 a.m. at Tyrone Hospital. She was born May 9, 1925 in Tyrone, the daughter of Hugh T. and Sara McClellan Wagner. On June 15, 1945 at St. Matthew's Rectory she was married to Walter S. Marthouse who survives. Also surviving are four sisters and one brother: Peg Dickson, Newark, DE; Mary, wife of William Westbrook, Newark, DE; Donna, wife of Thomas Ferguson, Newark, DE; Jane, wife of Herbert Houck, Spruce Creek and Hugh and wife Nancy, Long Neck Beach, DE. She was preceded in death by two brothers and one sisters: Kenneth and Donald Wagner and Ann Forcey. Also surviving are a number of nieces and nephews and grand nieces and nephews. She was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church and had served on the church Administrative Council. She had been a member of the Women's Society of Christian Service which she served as treasurer and was a member of the Gertrude Black Sunday School class. She had been responsible for the training and overseeing of the church acolytes. Mrs. Marthouse was retired from Westvaco after a number of years service where she had been employed as Personnel Assistant. She was a graduate of Tyrone High School Class of 1943. She was an avid bowler and had participated in may state and national tournaments. Funeral service for Janet W. Marthouse will be Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 11 a.m. at Wesley Methodist Church with Reverend Dr. Dennis R. Gable officiating. Interment will follow in Blair Memorial Park. Friends may call at the Richard H. Searer Funeral Home Inc. on Friday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Contributions in her memory are requested to the Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation, 22512 Gateway Center Drive, P.O. Box 1950, Clarksburg, MD 20871-1950. Tyrone Daily Herald, June 23, 2005