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John E. Nydegger, age 100, of Hill Street passed away on Thursday, July 3, 2014 at the Wellsville Manor Care Center. He was born in Wellsville on February 15, 1914 to Ernest and Susie Deschler Nydegger. On June 24, 1940 in Wellsville he married Virginia A. Ennis who predeceased him on February 16, 2002.
John was a lifelong resident of Wellsville who graduated from Wellsville High School in 1932. He entered the US Navy in 1942 and served throughout World War II and was honorably discharged in 1946. After the war John went to work for the former Scoville Brown Whole Sale Grocery Company in Wellsville. He was the store’s treasurer and worked for them for 22 years. He then went to work for the Former First Trust Union Bank in Wellsville from where he retired from in 1979 after 12 years of service. John was a lifelong member of the First Trinity Lutheran Church in Wellsville. He was a very active member of his church serving on the finance board, a member of the Men’s Club, Senior Citizens and sang in the men’s chorus and choir. John was a member and past treasurer of the Wellsville Rod and Gun Club and also sang in the Apollo Club.
Survivors include 2 sons, John E. Nydegger of Estes Park, Colorado and Richard (Darlene) Nydegger of Wellsville; 2 daughters, Suzanne Nydegger of Wellsville and Mary Kay (Tom) Schrider of Columbus, Ohio; 9 grandchildren and 10 great grand children; several nieces and nephews.
John was predeceased by his parents, his wife and a sister, Doris Lehman.
Friends are invited to attend a memorial service on Saturday, July 5, 2014, at 11 am in the First Trinity Lutheran Church of Wellsville with Pastor Robert Morris presiding. Memorials in John’s name may be given to the First Trinity Lutheran Church of Wellsville. To leave online condolences please visit www.embserfuneralhome.com.

Walter B. Shine

October 10, 1914 ~ June 2, 2005

Genevieve Martin-Perry

May 9, 1916 ~ February 7, 2011

Rosamond Clark

Esther Bierman-Sinkey

1919 ~ August 30, 1992

Mildred Teller-Cleveland

March 3, 1913 ~ November 21, 2008

June Roehler-Dye

December 26, 1915 ~ July 5, 1998

Alice Colby-Burger

1913 ~ June 8, 2000

Alfred Carl Gent

November 11, 1914 ~ July 2, 1994

James Richard Farley

May 14, 1912 ~ March 28, 2002

Mary Costello-Winans

Lawrence Corwin

August 8, 1912 ~ September 8, 1991

Helen Irene Cornwell-Shear

September 1, 1914 ~ February 25, 2009

Yvonne Stannard

May 22, 1913 ~ 1962

Marjorie Steenwerth-Ruoff-Hanneman

September 5, 1912 ~ November 24, 2009

Marian Austin-Ager

August 28, 1912 ~ June 2, 1989

Marian O’Connor-McGinnis

December 13, 1914 ~ April 15, 2003

Helena O’Hara-Sawyer

February 24, 1915 ~ December 17, 2008

Ormand J. Brundage

January 18, 1913 ~ June 6, 1996

Lena Cornelius-Cummings

February 2, 1915 ~ May 13, 1996

Carlos Starr

May 26, 1910 ~ February 14, 2004

Martha Prior-McIntyre

December 12, 1914 ~ September 11, 1995

Paul Sullivan

Iva Elizabeth Sadler-Saunders

August 18, 1913 ~ September 12, 2002

Letitia Debarbieri-Parron

December 1, 1913 ~ October 23, 2006

Kenneth Chalker

Francis Clare “Frank” Fagan

March 2, 1914 ~ April 1, 1988

Cameron Howell

Mona Cochran-Tompkins

August 2, 1914 ~ April 22, 1995

Sherman Cross

May 18, 1912 ~ January 3, 1980

Shirley Horn-Ambroselli

January 2, 1914 ~ August 17, 2000

Anne Wormley-Ahl

February 6, 1914 ~ August 1985

Edward McLaughlin

July 28, 1914 ~ May 1979

Florence Sawyer-Evans-Teater

June 21, 1912 ~ March 29, 2004

Mary Daley-Lynch

February 11, 1914 ~ February 13, 2008

Gladys Carlin-McBride

December 31, 1911 ~ March 5, 2000

Roberta Callaghan

April 20, 1917 ~ December 26, 1983

Helena Ives-Euken

April 12, 1915 ~ April 1995

Barbara Elizabeth Miller-Arnold

December 21, 1912 ~ November 2, 1985

Charles Hylan

Barbara Whitford-Underwood

May 9, 1914 ~ October 5, 2000

Claude Durban

Edith Beverly Walther-Lake

February 13, 1916 ~ January 9, 1997

Mary Ryan-Cunningham

1913 ~ 1996

Howard Everett Piper Jr.

September 9, 1913 ~ July 6, 1978

Theodore Engelder

October 2, 1912 ~ May 11, 1999

Anne Rita Ryan-Scanlon

Rita Scanlan, Born in Port Allegany, PA on Aug. 27, 1915. Departed on Mar. 17, 2010 and resided in Ambler, PA. Visitation: Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010 09:00 am – 10:00 am. Funeral Mass: Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010
10:00 am Funeral Mass: Thursday, Mar. 25, 2010, 10:00 am Cemetery: St. Elizabeth Cemetery. Anne Rita Ryan Scanlan, 94, a long time resident of Colegrove, McKean County, Pennsylvania, passed away
peacefully at her daughter Rosemary’s home in Ambler, PA on March 17, 2010. She was preceeded in death by her husband Nicholas William Scanlan. Rita was born in Port Allegany, PA on August 27, 1915, the daughter of the late William Patrick and Bridgid Josephine Fitzstephens Ryan, the second of their three children. Her father was a professional baseball player, a catcher in the minor leagues, and a hotelier. He introduced her to many early baseball legends and entertainment stars of the era. Her mother immigrated to the United States from Foxford, County Mayo, Ireland by ship as a child in 1900. Rita was an exceptional student and in her years of elementary and secondary education in Olean and Wellsville, New York, respectively, skipped grades and, upon high school graduation, attained the highest scores ever recorded on the New York State Regents Exams. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Villa Maria College in Erie, PA with a double major degree in French and mathematics. While in college she met Nick Scanlan, also a student in Erie at Gannon College. He was an accomplished amateur pugilist and aviator. They were married July 1, 1940 in Wellsville, NY. During WWII the young couple resided at various air bases across the U.S. where her now Army Air Corps Captain husband had been assigned as a flight instructor to new cadets. After the war they returned to the home in Colegrove where they raised their family. Nick operated the Smethport Garage Company , an automobile dealership, in Smethport, PA until his death in 1972. Rita was a substitute teacher at the Smethport Area Jr.-Sr. High School often teaching French and Latin for 17 years until her retirement at age 78.
She enjoyed portrait sketching, her yard full of perennial flowers and shrubs, and the many cats and dogs she loved over the years. She was politically astute and an obstinate life-long Democrat in a county overwhelmed with Republicans, including her husband. She was strong-willed and did not hesitate to voice her opinion. Rita did a great deal of community outreach, helping the elderly and needy. She was proud of her Irish heritage and often exhibited her great wit and gift for gab. She was fortunate enough to make a pilgrimage to her parent’s homeland In her later years and even kiss the Blarney Stone. And as the luck of the Irish would have it, she passed away on St. Patrick’s Day. She was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Ambler, PA, St. Elizabeths of Hungary in Smethport, PA, Catholic Daughters of America, McKean County Historical Society where she served as Vice President, and was
also a CCD Teacher at St. Elizabeth Church in Smethport, PA. She is survived by her seven children: Colleen Anne McClay (William) of Drexel Hill, PA; Michael James Scanlan (Margaret) of Golden, CO; Dennis Eugene Scanlan of Boise, Idaho; Marie Louise Anderson (Samuel) of Wallingford, PA; Brian Christopher Scanlan of Drexel Hill, PA; Rosemary Jacob (Neil) of Ambler, PA; Jane Rita Scanlan of
Melbourne, FL; nine grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren. She was pre-deceased by her brother William Stephen Ryan and her sister Mary Frances Cunningham. In lieu of flowers donations may be made in her name to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000 Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148