Many people called her "Ma'am" Pugh, but my side of the family always called her Minnie. I really don't know why.
Her most famous line was spoken one Christmas morning at my parents' house (Dale and Bette Allison). She and her sister Alice had come up to see what we all had received from Santa. After about half an hour, she had seen enough and said, "Well, let's get goin'. Chicki's a cookin'!" She meant that she and Alice had prepared a chicken for Christmas dinner at Alice's house and they needed to quickly return to tend to the browning poultry. Because that morning back in the mid-1960s was taped on a recorder, her line has become a family classic.
Obituary:
From an unknown newspaper.
Services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Arner Funeral Chapel in Chester for Mrs. Helen K. Pugh, 82, of 442 Indiana Ave., Chester, widow of G. C. Pugh.
Mrs. Pugh died Thursday at 4:25 p.m. at City Hospital after a lingering illness.
She was born in Wellsville Sept. 10, 1891, a daughter of Thomas Kessel and Mary Martin Kessel. She had resided most of her life in the Chester and New Manchester area.
Mrs. Pugh, a retired employe [sic] of D. M. Ogilvie & Co., was a member of the Westminster United Presbyterian Church of Chester and its Queen Esther Class. Her husband died in 1934.
Survivors include two sons, J. Richard Pugh of Chester and Greer C. Pugh of Wilmington, Del., a brother Kenneth Kessel of Steubenville; a sister, Mrs. Alice Allison of Chester, two grandchildren and one great grandchild.
The Rev. George Espy will conduct the Saturday morning services. Burial will be in Union Cemetery, New Manchester.
Friends may call at the chapel today from 22 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m
Her most famous line was spoken one Christmas morning at my parents' house (Dale and Bette Allison). She and her sister Alice had come up to see what we all had received from Santa. After about half an hour, she had seen enough and said, "Well, let's get goin'. Chicki's a cookin'!" She meant that she and Alice had prepared a chicken for Christmas dinner at Alice's house and they needed to quickly return to tend to the browning poultry. Because that morning back in the mid-1960s was taped on a recorder, her line has become a family classic.
Obituary:
From an unknown newspaper.
Services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Arner Funeral Chapel in Chester for Mrs. Helen K. Pugh, 82, of 442 Indiana Ave., Chester, widow of G. C. Pugh.
Mrs. Pugh died Thursday at 4:25 p.m. at City Hospital after a lingering illness.
She was born in Wellsville Sept. 10, 1891, a daughter of Thomas Kessel and Mary Martin Kessel. She had resided most of her life in the Chester and New Manchester area.
Mrs. Pugh, a retired employe [sic] of D. M. Ogilvie & Co., was a member of the Westminster United Presbyterian Church of Chester and its Queen Esther Class. Her husband died in 1934.
Survivors include two sons, J. Richard Pugh of Chester and Greer C. Pugh of Wilmington, Del., a brother Kenneth Kessel of Steubenville; a sister, Mrs. Alice Allison of Chester, two grandchildren and one great grandchild.
The Rev. George Espy will conduct the Saturday morning services. Burial will be in Union Cemetery, New Manchester.
Friends may call at the chapel today from 22 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m
Many people called her "Ma'am" Pugh, but my side of the family always called her Minnie. I really don't know why.
Her most famous line was spoken one Christmas morning at my parents' house (Dale and Bette Allison). She and her sister Alice had come up to see what we all had received from Santa. After about half an hour, she had seen enough and said, "Well, let's get goin'. Chicki's a cookin'!" She meant that she and Alice had prepared a chicken for Christmas dinner at Alice's house and they needed to quickly return to tend to the browning poultry. Because that morning back in the mid-1960s was taped on a recorder, her line has become a family classic.
Obituary:
From an unknown newspaper.
Services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Arner Funeral Chapel in Chester for Mrs. Helen K. Pugh, 82, of 442 Indiana Ave., Chester, widow of G. C. Pugh.
Mrs. Pugh died Thursday at 4:25 p.m. at City Hospital after a lingering illness.
She was born in Wellsville Sept. 10, 1891, a daughter of Thomas Kessel and Mary Martin Kessel. She had resided most of her life in the Chester and New Manchester area.
Mrs. Pugh, a retired employe [sic] of D. M. Ogilvie & Co., was a member of the Westminster United Presbyterian Church of Chester and its Queen Esther Class. Her husband died in 1934.
Survivors include two sons, J. Richard Pugh of Chester and Greer C. Pugh of Wilmington, Del., a brother Kenneth Kessel of Steubenville; a sister, Mrs. Alice Allison of Chester, two grandchildren and one great grandchild.
The Rev. George Espy will conduct the Saturday morning services. Burial will be in Union Cemetery, New Manchester.
Friends may call at the chapel today from 22 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m
Her most famous line was spoken one Christmas morning at my parents' house (Dale and Bette Allison). She and her sister Alice had come up to see what we all had received from Santa. After about half an hour, she had seen enough and said, "Well, let's get goin'. Chicki's a cookin'!" She meant that she and Alice had prepared a chicken for Christmas dinner at Alice's house and they needed to quickly return to tend to the browning poultry. Because that morning back in the mid-1960s was taped on a recorder, her line has become a family classic.
Obituary:
From an unknown newspaper.
Services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Arner Funeral Chapel in Chester for Mrs. Helen K. Pugh, 82, of 442 Indiana Ave., Chester, widow of G. C. Pugh.
Mrs. Pugh died Thursday at 4:25 p.m. at City Hospital after a lingering illness.
She was born in Wellsville Sept. 10, 1891, a daughter of Thomas Kessel and Mary Martin Kessel. She had resided most of her life in the Chester and New Manchester area.
Mrs. Pugh, a retired employe [sic] of D. M. Ogilvie & Co., was a member of the Westminster United Presbyterian Church of Chester and its Queen Esther Class. Her husband died in 1934.
Survivors include two sons, J. Richard Pugh of Chester and Greer C. Pugh of Wilmington, Del., a brother Kenneth Kessel of Steubenville; a sister, Mrs. Alice Allison of Chester, two grandchildren and one great grandchild.
The Rev. George Espy will conduct the Saturday morning services. Burial will be in Union Cemetery, New Manchester.
Friends may call at the chapel today from 22 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m
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