Virginia M. Lewis Gorby, 65, formerly of 311 60th St., Altoona, died early Sunday morning, Jan. 2, 2005 at Valley View Home, Altoona after a lengthy illness.
\nShe was born Aug. 21, 1939 in Tyrone, a daughter of the late Samuel W. and Edna C. (McNeal) Lewis, Sr.
\nShe is survived by five children: Jody Lynn Lewis-Gebhart and her husband Jody, Walter K. Noel, Candy Lee Noel and (Francis), Cindy Ann Taddy and husband Mike, all of Altoona and Barbara Ann Kirby and her husband Craig of Duncansville.
\nAnd, special friend Bob of Altoona.
\nAlso surviving are 14 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
\nA sister, Mina L. Yaudes, Tyrone and a brother Samuel W. Lewis, Jr., RD 1, Tyrone.
\nShe was preceded in death by a son Samuel W. Gorby, two grandchildren, a brother, William C. Lewis and an infant sister, Mary Ellen Lewis.
\nShe was a graduate of Tyrone Area High School in 1957 and a graduate of the Altoona School of Commerce in 1977.
\nShe was retired on disability as an invoice and payroll clerk from Ames Department Store, Tyrone after 10 years service.
\nFuneral services will be held Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2005 at 11 a.m., at the Derman Funeral Home, Inc., Tyrone.
\nInterment will be in the Grandview Cemetery, Snyder Township.
\nFriends will be received at the funeral home on Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. before the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Virginia M. Lewis Gorby, 65, formerly of 311 60th St., Altoona, died early Sunday morning, Jan. 2, 2005 at Valley View Home, Altoona after a lengthy illness. She was born Aug. 21, 1939 in Tyrone, a daughter of the late Samuel W. and Edna C. (McNeal) Lewis, Sr. She is survived by five children: Jody […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}