Obituary of Charles A. Ross

Charles A. Ross died June 21, 2010, at Greenhills Village, State College. Born July 23, 1909, in Morrisdale, he was a son of Alexander Mutter Ross and Alice Richardson Ross, one of nine children.

On June 19, 1935, he married a young school teacher, Sarah Belle Myers, who died July 24, 1981. She taught school in Moshannon and Snow Shoe, and in a one-room school in German Settlement. Mr. Ross was a graduate of Morrisdale High School and Beckley College in Harrisburg. He worked for 41 years managing A&P grocery stores in Bedford, Bellefonte, Snow Shoe, St. Marys, Clearfield, and State College, retiring in 1971.

He was a school board member in Snow Shoe, scout master and member of the Order of the Arrow, and a charter member of the Snow Shoe Lions Club. A member of St. Paul's Methodist Church, he delivered tapes for many years to those unable to attend church services. He served his country in Hawaii in World War II as Yeoman 3rd Class in the headquarters of Admiral Nimitz, Chief of the Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Area. At the end of the war he sailed home on a memorable trip through the Panama Canal.

He is survived by his three children and their spouses, Charles R. Ross and June, of Boise, Idaho, Margaret R. and George D. Kraft, of Naperville, Ill., Nancy R. and Ralph A. Long, of State College; and also by a special friend, Virginia Kozak. His grandchildren are Shyrle Ross, of Mukilteo, Wash., Emmett Ross, of Bristow, Va., Raymond Ross, of Redmond, Wash., William and Sean Ross, of Boise, Idaho, Anna Marie Ross, of Salt Lake City, Utah, Stephen and Michael Kraft, of New Kensinqton, Md., Mark Kraft, of Chicago, Nancy A. Long, of Bellefonte, and Lesley Bausch-Ward, of Harrisburg. His great-grandchildren number 15.

Visitation will be at the Koch Funeral Home Wednesday evening, June 23, 2010, from 6-8. The funeral service will be Thursday at 1:30 p.m., at the funeral home, with Pastor Zeiders officiating. Burial will follow in Philipsburg.