OBIT: Beulah L. (GARNER) FELTON, 2007, Hesston, Huntingdon County, PA

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Beulah Lorraine (Garner) Felton 

  Beulah Lorraine (Garner) Felton, 72, of Box 238, Hesston, R.R. 1, 
died at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007, at her residence in Penn 
Township.
  Born Dec. 1, 1934, in her family home in Penn Township, Hesston, she 
was a daughter of the late Melvin Clyde and Olive Elizabeth (Norris) 
Garner. She was united in marriage to John Elwood Felton June 18, 1953, 
in Mansfield, Ohio. Mr. Felton survives at their Penn Township 
residence.
  Mrs. Felton is also survived by three sons, Dennis E. Felton and 
wife, Janie, James Creek; Kenneth E. Tucker and wife, Sandy, Mapleton; 
and Thomas E. Felton and wife, Connie, DuBois; a granddaughter, Cindy 
Felton, DuBois; five stepgrandchildren and three stepgreat-
grandchildren.
  She is also survived by a sister and brother, Helen M. Myers and 
husband, Casper, Huntingdon; and Melvin R. Garner and wife, Jean, 
Carlisle; and a former daughter-in-law, Karen J. Ponish, Huntingdon.
  She was preceded in death by a sister, Catherine E. Myers.
  Mrs. Felton was an active member of Jacob's White Church, Hesston, 
where she joined as a teenager and remained active in various church 
organizations and groups through the years, including serving as the 
organist for over 20 years.
  She attended the former Upper Corner School House, Penn Township, 
Hesston.
  Primarily a homemaker, Mrs. Felton also worked for a number of years 
at the Arrow Shirt Factory, Huntingdon, and later at the G.C. Murphy 
Store, Huntingdon. Except for six and one-half years when her husband 
worked at the Westinghouse Plant in Ohio, she was a lifetime resident 
of Penn Township. She returned to Penn Township in 1956.
  Mrs. Felton particularly enjoyed playing both the organ and the piano 
for services and functions not only in church, but also at home. She 
was an avid bingo player, enjoyed vegetable and flower gardening and 
did needlework and crochet work as well. Mrs. Felton and her husband 
also opened their home to and cared for foster children for a number of 
years.
  Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 21, at the 
Cutright Funeral Homes - Smithfield Chapel, 313 Fairgrounds Road, 
Huntingdon, with the Rev. Dr. Theodore E. Kiffer, Hospice chaplain, 
officiating, and assisted by the Rev. H. Lloy Blattenberger. Interment 
will be made in Jacob's White Church Cemetery, Penn Township.
  Memorial contributions may be made to the Home Nursing Agency 
Hospice, 900 Bryan St., Suite 7, Huntingdon, PA 16652.  

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., September 21, 2007