Verna (Mickel) Bush, 84, of Bellwood died Fri., Jan. 28, 2011 at Altoona Hospital. She was born in Blair County to George & Bertha (Lingenfelter) Mickel. She was orphaned at age 12 and then raised by her mother's sister, Martha (Lingenfelter) Reigh. She married Robert L. Bush on July 13, 1946, at the Logan's Valley Baptist Church parsonage, Bellwood. Survived by husband; sister, Idabelle Baggott, of Niger, Africa; brother, Ralph Mickel, of Chambersburg; sisters in-law: Irene Turnbaugh and Faye McCracken, both of Bellwood, and Ann Bush, of Altoona; brother-in-law, Clifford Rhodes, in Ohio; and extended family. Predeceased by 8 brothers: George, William, Earnest, Ralph, Robert and Frank Mickel and Ray and Calvin Lingenfelter and 5 sisters: Rosella, Irene and Ethel Mickel, Alice Osborn and Gladys Grabill. Verna was a 1944 graduate of Altoona High School. She was the bookkeeper at Cornmesser Hardware Store, Bellwood, for nearly 50 years and was owner of Bush's House of Ceramics, Bellwood. Verna attended Faith Bible Church, Antis Township. Russin Funeral Home, Bellwood. Interment, Blair Memorial Park.
Altoona Mirror, Sun., 1/30/11
Verna (Mickel) Bush, 84, of Bellwood died Fri., Jan. 28, 2011 at Altoona Hospital. She was born in Blair County to George & Bertha (Lingenfelter) Mickel. She was orphaned at age 12 and then raised by her mother's sister, Martha (Lingenfelter) Reigh. She married Robert L. Bush on July 13, 1946, at the Logan's Valley Baptist Church parsonage, Bellwood. Survived by husband; sister, Idabelle Baggott, of Niger, Africa; brother, Ralph Mickel, of Chambersburg; sisters in-law: Irene Turnbaugh and Faye McCracken, both of Bellwood, and Ann Bush, of Altoona; brother-in-law, Clifford Rhodes, in Ohio; and extended family. Predeceased by 8 brothers: George, William, Earnest, Ralph, Robert and Frank Mickel and Ray and Calvin Lingenfelter and 5 sisters: Rosella, Irene and Ethel Mickel, Alice Osborn and Gladys Grabill. Verna was a 1944 graduate of Altoona High School. She was the bookkeeper at Cornmesser Hardware Store, Bellwood, for nearly 50 years and was owner of Bush's House of Ceramics, Bellwood. Verna attended Faith Bible Church, Antis Township. Russin Funeral Home, Bellwood. Interment, Blair Memorial Park.
Altoona Mirror, Sun., 1/30/11
Family Members
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Ernest Lamborn Mickel
1909–1959
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Rev Ralph Andrew Mickel
1910–2015
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Rosella Mickel
1912–1987
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Robert Isaac "Bob" Mickel
1913–2002
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Anna Alice Mickel Osborn
1914–2006
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Irene May Mickel Musselman
1915–1998
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Frank Walter Mickel
1917–1970
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Ethel Frances Mickel
1919–1920
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Eliel Ray Dively
1921–1983
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Infant Son Mickel
1922–1922
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Infant Mickel
1922–1922
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Idabelle Lingenfelter Baggett
1923–2011
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