OBIT: Alvin James STUART, 2007, of interest in Somerset County, PA
 
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  STUART, Alvin James  06/20/07   Daily American
  
    Alvin James Stuart, 79, Wildwood, Fla., died June 17, 2007. He was born in 1927 in
  North Braddock, the son of the late Alvin L. and Mary B. Porter Stuart. He is survived by
  his wife of 59 years, Margaret Jane McAndrews Stuart; two daughters, Judith Louise
  Shipley, Allison Park; and Nancy Jane Black, South Riding, Va.; two sons, David Alvin
  Stuart, Chicago; and Robert Lee Stuart, Fort Collins, Colo. He is also survived by
  three grandsons and four granddaughters. Alvin is a graduate of Scott High School in the
  class of 1945. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps with the 9th Air Force Service
  Command in Germany. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Education degrees
  from the University of Pittsburgh, and his doctorate of philosophy degree from Ohio
  University, Athens, Ohio. He taught in the  elementary schools of Pittsburgh, and served
  as principal of the Espe and McKnight Schools in the North Allegheny School District. He
  taught on the  college level at Ohio  University, Culver-Stockton  college, Canton, Mo.,
  and  Indiana University of . Pennsylvania At IUP he served  as the last director of the
  Keith Laboratory School and as the first director of the University School. In 1972, he
  joined the Department of Elementary Education and there became the director of the
  doctoral program. He retired from the position in 1986. He was a member of the Wildwood
  United Methodist Church; Wildwood Masonic Lodge 92; PHP of William S. Daughtery Royal
  Arch Chapter, Indiana, Pa. He was a life member of PSEA; a life member and past commander
  of Indiana County VFW Post 1989 and a member of Tri-City Post 18 of the American Legion,
  Wildwood, Fla. Cremation took place in Florida. A celebration of life will be held 2 p.m.
  Aug. 25 at the chapel in Jefferson Memorial Park, Pleasant Hills Borough. Interment of his
  ashes will follow at the site of his parents' graves in the Garden of Gethsemane. In lieu
  of flowers, contributions may be made to the Wildwood United Methodist Church, 300 Main
  St., Wildwood, FL 34785 and Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, 237 Whipkey Dam Road,
  Rockwood, PA 15557.