Isabell "Bell" Gregory Arndt, 95 a resident of Pleasant Ridge Manor, died there on Wednesday July 29, 2009.
She was born on January 26, 1914 in Winterburn, WV, a daughter of the late Ray and Blanche Pelky Gregory.
Bell moved to Bitumen, PA as a young girl with her family and walked the proverbial three miles down the mountain road to attend the Westport School. Following her marriage to Myrt Arndt in 1930 she moved to the Pittsburgh area in 1941 where she took care of her family and maintained their home. In 1954, she went to work for the Penn-Hill School District, where she drove a school bus for 22 years before retiring from there in 1976. She was also employed by Home Health Care in Slippery Rock and Grove City.
Bell was preceded in death by her husband Myrt Arndt ; her children Allen W. Arndt, Sharon E. Arndt, Ronald R. Arndt, Myrt E. Arndt, Theodore M. Arndt, Richard R. Arndt, Roger D. Arndt; a grandaughter Renee Arndt; also by seven brothers Raymond Gregory, Russell Gregory, Norman Gregory, Arthur Gregory,Max Gregory, Eugene Gregory, Larry Gregory and one sister Edith B. Casper.
She will be greatly missed by her family which includes her son, James L. Arndt of Greenwood, LA; a brother, Grant D. Gregory and his wife Jean of Erie; four sisters Ann L. Cramer and her husband Claude "Kirt" of Alliance,OH, Eileen Causeman and her husband Jay of Clearwater,FL, Sylvia M. Thompson and her husband Richard of Wattsburg,PA, and Ruth L. "Dolly" Judice and her husband Leno of DuBois,PA.; 20 grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren; 2 great great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
Friends may call on Sunday from 2PM to 5PM at Daniel R. Edder Funeral Home, 309 Main St. East, Girard. Further calling will be held at the North Bend United Methodist Church, North Bend, PA on Monday from 11AM until the time of the service there at 1PM.
Burial will be in the North Bend Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the Gregory Family Homestead, C/O Renee Adamowicz 590 Walbridge Rd, Erie, PA 16511