![]() She especially enjoyed the hours spent with The Covenant Café Alzheimer’s Support Group, Ross Library, Susque View Nursing Home, the Rotary Club, and her daughter-in-law’s third grade classrooms. She was also very proud to have delivered a summer commencement address at her beloved Mansfield.Įleanor has been a volunteer for several organizations in Lock Haven. She belonged to the Immaculate Conception Church in Lock Haven where she was choir member and Eucharistic Minister for many years.Įleanor was a member of the Belles Springs Golf Club where she and her husband played for over 30 years.ĭuring her years as an educator, Eleanor was honored by being presented with the Outstanding Educator Award from Mansfield University, where she also served two terms as a member of the Alumni Board. She was proud of her many years as a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, an honorary organization for women educators. She was on the board of directors for The Friends of the Ross Library. Twenty-seven wonderful years were spent in the beloved Avis Elementary School, as a classroom teacher and later as principal of the school.Įleanor was a lifetime member of the Avis PTO, AARP, and the Ross Library in Lock Haven. She taught one year in Corning, NY, before being married, and in 1954 began a teaching career in the Jersey Shore School District, where she worked until retirement in 1981. She earned a master’s degree in Elementary Administration from Penn State in 1973. She graduated from Mansfield State Teachers College, as it was known then, in 1947, with a degree in Elementary Education. Kodish, who passed away on March 14, 2012.Įleanor attended a one-room schoolhouse for eight years in Middletown Center, PA, graduating from Rush High School in Rush, PA, in 1943. She was married for 64 years to her college sweetheart, Raymond A. November 5, 1925, to Stephen Douglas Jones and Clara Melissa (Anderson) Jones. Eleanor Evangeline Jones Kodish was born in Johnson City, NY. Online condolences at kader-neff.Eleanor Kodish, 95, from Lock Haven, PA, passed peacefully away in her home, on October 11. Singer-Kader-Neff Funeral Home has charge of the arrangements. Friends and family will be received starting at 10 a.m. She will be missed beyond words.Ī Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, July 22, at the Flemington First Church of Christ, Canal Street, Mill Hall. She was an avid Grange Fair camper with her sister for many years. Shirley loved spending time with her family and sewing with her sister. Prior to that she was the first female Deputy Sheriff in Clinton County. She worked for almost 30 years as a legal secretary for the Miller, Kistler and Campbell Law Firm in State College. She was a beautiful quilter and was a member of the Clinton Piecemakers Quilting Guild. She was a member of the Prayer Shawl Group in Mill Hall. Shirley was an active member of the Liberty Baptist Church in Blanchard, serving as Deacon, teaching Women’s Bible Study, singing in the choir, leading the Ladies Crafters, the church’s prayer group after services and the Ladies Missionary Circle. She was preceded in death by a grandson, Kyle Gaines, and her beloved beagles, Buck and Max. (Kim) a step-brother, Ted Hunter (Nancy) and nieces and nephews, James Bottorf, Jr., Katy Bottorf Albert, Shane Reeder, Leonard Weber III, Megan Weber, Greg Hunter and Kim Laird. Shirley is also survived by a sister, Brenda Weber Bottorf (Jim) a brother, Leonard Weber, Jr. She is survived by one son, Brad Gaines (Jaimi) as well as grandchildren, Gage and Hunter Gaines and Kyle Brown and great-grandchildren, Brayden Furry, Tyson Brown, Wyatt Gaines and Baylee Brown. Shirley married Milford (Joe) Gaines, Jr. She was the daughter of the late Annabelle Young Conklin and the late Leonard Weber, Sr. Shirley was born in Lock Haven on June 4, 1951. ![]() Shirley Jean Weber Gaines, 72, of Howard, passed away on July 8, 2023. ![]()
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