Charles Laverne "Pop-Pop" Dickey, Sr.

Charles Laverne "Pop-Pop" Dickey, Sr., 75, of Butler, PA , died at 5:15 AM on Sunday, January 1, 2006 at Veteran's Affairs Medical Center after a long illness. He was born Tuesday, September 16, 1930 in Butler, the son of the late Homer L. Dickey and Mary Alice Snyder Dickey. He attended Butler Public Schools. He entered the Army in 1947 and served until 1957, where he settled in Danbury, CT. Mr. Dickey had been a long haul trucker and retired from the Danbury Public Works Department and returned to Butler. During his 16 years in Butler, numerous children have entered his home and heart through a family daycare. They have known him as their Pop-Pop, friend, playmate and mentor. He loved each and everyone of them as his own and will take a part of each child with him in his heart. Surviving are his wife, Cheryl Juleson March Dickey ; 5 sons, Charles Laverne, Jr. of Butler, Robert Lewis of Brookfield, CT, Scott B. March of Danbury, CT, Jody N. March of West Sunbury and Kenneth A. Dickey of Arizona; 2 daughters, Shannon Elizabeth Noullet of Butler and Charlene Stone of Arizona; 5 grandsons, Charles A.L. Dickey, Brenden, Joshua, Nicholas Charles and Tyler; 2 granddaughters, his princesses, Michele and Madison Leigh; 1 sister, Mary Louise Jameson; 1 brother, David Dale Dickey of Butler; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was also survived by a son, Aldo Armstrong, a grandson, Stephen James Caraluzzi and a devoted friend, Jean Stanton, not by blood but by heartstrings. He was preceded in death by first wife, Louise Taylor Dickey, his parents, a brother, Homer L. Dickey, a sister, Dorothy L. Herritt and an infant grandson, Kenneth Allen Dickey, II. Also, preceded in death by his three best friends Brownie, Princess and Jiggers. Private services and burial at National Cemetery of the Alleghenies, Bridgeville, PA Contributions may be made to the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center Chapel, % Rev. Henry B. Hall, 325 New Castle Road, Butler, PA 16001 or the BMH Caring Angels Foundation, 911 E. Brady St., Butler, PA 16001 or the Butler County Humane Society, 1015 Evans City Rd., Renfrew, PA 16053. Arrangements by Young Funeral Home, Ltd. Butler, PA Information available at www.youngfuneralhomes.com