OBIT: Mabel A. (DIXON) PATTERSON, 1978, Alexandria, Huntingdon County, PA

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Mabel A. Patterson

  Mrs. Mabel A. Patterson, 56, of Main st., Alexandria., died Thursday 
at 4 a.m. at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, where she had been a 
patient since Tuesday.  Prior to that, she had been a patient at J. C. 
Blair Memorial Hospital, Huntingdon, since Nov. 28.
  She was born Feb. 18, 1921, at Petersburg, a daughter of Nelson and 
Mary Campbell Dixon.  She was married to Arthur W. Patterson Sr., at 
Tyrone, on June 12, 1937 by the Rev. John S. Colledge.
  She is survived by her husband; six sons and three daughters: Mrs. 
Betty Wilson, Arthur Jr., Richard, Kermit, Mrs. Helen Morningstar, 
William, Kenneth and Joseph, all of Alexandria; and Mrs. Norma Ormsby, 
of State College; and 19 grandchildren.  One son and two grandchildren 
preceded her in death.
  She is also survived by five brothers and four sisters:  Leroy Dixon, 
of Oregon; David, Allen, and James Dixon, of Indiana; Malvin Dixon and 
Mrs. Catherine Fitzgerald, of Vermont; Mrs. Dorothy Dixon, of Altoona; 
and Mrs. Ethel Walk and Mrs. Mary Bonsell, both of Tyrone.
  She  was a member  of the Free Methodist Church, Huntingdon, and of 
the Auxiliary to the Alexandria Volunteer Fire Co.
  She had been employed at Moser Poultry Farm, Spruce Creek, until its 
closing, and had worked as a cook at the Petersburg Transformer Co. for 
several years.
  Funeral service will be held Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the Free 
Methodist Church, Shadyside ave., Huntingdon, with the Rev. Joan Houck 
officiating.  Interment will be at Burket Cemetery, Warriors Mark.  
Friends will be received at the Grove Funeral Home, Alexandria, on 
Saturday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. and at the church in Huntingdon on 
Sunday from 12:30 p.m. until the hour of service.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., January 13, 1978, page 2