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Jeannette Isabel Bouch Andre
Jeannette Isabel Andre, 94, formerly of Chicora, died Thursday, January 19,
2017
at Oakmont Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation.
She was born June 12, 1922 in Worthington, daughter of Clarence and Nellie J.
(Barr) Bouch. She was a descendant of James Barr, one of the first Associate
Judges ofArmstrong County.
She was a 1940 graduate of Worthington West-Franklin High School and the former
Kittanning Business School.
She was employed by Henry Shaffer Lumber in Kittanning, the office of Roy A.
House, Justice of the Peace in Kittanning, Aerial Surveys of Pittsburgh, the
Russell P.Hay Cessna Airplane Co. at the Butler Airport, and as office manager
at the Boy Scouts office in Butler.
She was a Notary Public from 1967 to 2003 and a correspondent for the Butler
Eagle for 25 years.
She was a member of St. John's Reformed Church in Chicora.
She had been a member of the Rebekah Lodge of Chicora, Chicora American Legion
Auxiliary, Chicora Volunteer Firemen's Auxiliary, Rotary Ann's of Chicora, the
Bradys Bend Historical Society, the reunion committee for the 101st Cavalry
Pennsylvania World War II reunions in Butler and Kittanning, the Ladies Aid
Society of St. John's Reformed Church,and several area craft clubs.
On August 5, 1944 she married the late Leroy B. Andre of Chicora, who died July
13, 2008.
Jeannette is survived by a daughter, Larilyn Andre of Centreville, Virginia; a
son Thomas (Fay) Andre of Penn Hills: grandchildren Kyle A. Reitnauer (Tracy)
of Fernley, NV; Nathaniel Andre-Erwin of Centreville, VA; Rachel (Collin)
Krepps of Catonsville, MD; Nathan Andre of Penn Hills; Joshua Andre of
Wooster, OH; and Christopher Andre of Penn Hills; great-grandchildren Delaney
Paige Reitnauer of Fernley, NV and Wyatt Lewis Krepps of Catonsville, MD, and
step- great-grandchildren Kelsie (Isaac)Niemeyer of Reno, NV and Hannah
(Stephen) Barraclough of Woodbridge, VA. She is alsosurvived by two
sisters-in-law Sondra Andre of Seven
Fields, PA and Shirley Andre of Saxonburg, PA, and numerous nieces, nephews,
grandnieces and grandnephews.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by infant
brother Clarence Bouch, Jr., and brother Dwight E. Bouch.
Friends of Jeannette I. Andre, who died Thursday, January 19, 2017, will be
received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday January 27, 2017 at the Steighner
Funeral Home, 111 E. Slippery Rock and Main Streets, Chicora and from 10 a.m. to
time of service at 11 a.m. Saturday January 28, 2017 at St. John's Reformed
Church, Chicora, PA with Rev. John Pistorius officiating.
Burial will follow in the St. John's Reformed Church Cemetery, Chicora, Pa.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the Special Olympics in
Jeannette's name.
Arrangements by Steighner Funeral Home, Chicora, Pa. |
