Monday, February 16, 1998

Allen Wise

Retired PennDOT employee worked construction

Allen "Abe" Wise, 80, of Hundred, W.Va., formerly of Bristoria, died at 9:27 p.m. Saturday, February 14, 1998, in Reynolds Memorial Hospital, Glen Dale, W.Va., following a six-week illness.

He was born July 22, 1917, in Bristoria, a son of Albert Stanton and Rosa Lee Thomas Wise.

Prior to his 1995 relocation to Hundred, Mr. Wise had been a lifelong resident of the Bristoria and Richhill Township areas.

He was a member of the Claylick United Methodist Church.

He had been a farmer and had been employed in construction in his younger years. In 1979, he retired from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, where he had worked as a laborer for 22 years.

On November 6, 1939, he married Ruth Pauline Stockdale, who died September 20, 1981.

On February 7, 1983, he married Mary Lois Hull Parson, who survives.

Also surviving are two stepsons, John V. Parson Jr. of Paden City, W.Va., and Ronnie Lee Parson of Waynesburg; one sister, Gladys Hewitt of Cameron, W.Va.; three stepgrandchildren, Jason Alan Parson, Kiley Ann Parson and Kristina Jo Parson.

Deceased are two sisters, Blanche Finch and Alberta Rinehart.





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