Cleora Alice McCandless

Cleora Alice McCandless, age 91, of Butler, PA, died at 8:12 AM on Friday, November 16, 2007 at Meadville Medical Center. She was born Monday, January 3, 1916 in Butler, PA, the daughter of the late Paul Renick and Dora Hockenberry Renick. She had been a member of First English Lutheran Church for 65 years and a former member of Rider Lutheran Church for 19 years. She was a 1933 Butler High School graduate. She and her husband had owned and operated Hillvale Dairy Farm in Center Township for 65 years. She had been on the Butler Memorial Hospital Auxiliary for more than 40 years. Cleora was inducted into the 1998 Pennsylvania Voter Hall of Fame for voting in every general election for more than 50 consecutive years. She had been an avid bridge player and gardener. Surviving are 2 daughters, Mrs. Robert (Doris J.) Habel of Meadville and Mrs. William (Kay) Houston of White Bear Lake, MN; 2 sons, J. Thomas McCandless of Severna Park, MD and Paul Richard McCandless, Jr. of Winter Park, FL; 10 grandchildren, Robert Habel, Cindy (Habel) Schwab, James T. McCandless, Jeffrey C. McCandless, Robert Paul McCandless, Shanen (Houston) Hoke, Brecke (Houston) Plourde, William Houston, Kelly (McCandless) Robertson, and Richard T. McCandless; 13 great grandchildren; Rockey Habel, Jacob Habel, Cara Jane Schwab, Molly Kay Schwab, Claudia McCandless, Sarah McCandless, Robert James McCandless, Matthew S. McCandless, Elliott Hoke, Quinn Hoke, Jacob Plourde, Owen Plourde and Tessa Patricia Kay Plourde; a sister, Sarah Jane Biehl of Silver Springs, MD and 1 brother, Arthur J. Renick of West Sunbury, PA. She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul R. McCandless who she married June 6, 1935 and who died January 9, 2001, a daughter, Dorothy Jean McCandless and 4 brothers, Homer Renick, Bertram Renick, Horace Renick and Dr. Raymond P. Renick. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 PM on Friday, November 23 at the Young Funeral Home, Ltd., Butler, PA. Services will be held at First English Lutheran Church, 214 N. Main St. on Saturday, November 24, 2007 at 11 AM with Rev. James W. Dollhopf officiating. Interment in the Greenlawn Burial Estates.