| MARY B. BRIGGS BREESE Grove City Homemaker, church member was college retiree Mary B. Breese, 217 Harvard Street, Grove City, died at 4:31 p.m. Tuesday May 2, 2000 in United Community Hospital, Pine Township, following a five month illness. She was 104. Mary Breese was born Jan.12, to C. S. and Anna Millsop Briggs. She retired in 1972 after more than 15 years as a receptionist for Grove City College. A homemaker, Mrs. Breese was the oldest member of Covenant Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Grove City, where she belonged to the church Missionary Society. Her husband , John H. "Happy" Breese, whom she married Feb. 4, 1915, died November 7, 1972. Surviving are: Three daughters, Mrs. Robert H. [Anna Jane] Daugherty and Mrs. George [Emma L.] Scharsu, both of Youngstown, Ohio; and Mrs. Albert L. [Elizabeth "Scottie"] Ferguson, Lititz, Pa.; a son, Paul D., Grove City, Pennsylvania; 15 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren; and several great-great-grandchildren. Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by a daughter Isabelle [Isabel] Alma Coast; a son, William M.; six brothers, William, John, George, James, Paul, and Clarence Briggs; and two sisters, Helen Raybould; and a twin, Belle Stubb. [Mary's middle name --Balentine] Source: Submitted by Anna Mae Heller, granddaughter |