Hilderbrand

Pearl R. Hilderbrand, 90, of the Chicora area died Wednesday morning at the home of her daughter, where she had been cared for.

She was born in Carbon Center on April 29, 1922, and was a daughter of Linus and Clara Waltman Geibel.

Pearl was a 1940 graduate of Butler High School and became an excellent homemaker for her family.

During World War II she was employed by the Department of Labor and Industry in Harrisburg, and she served as a junior hostess for the U.S.O. there. She also had worked in Butler for the Commercial Credit Corp. before her marriage.

She was a member of the St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church of Coylesville, Fenelton. She enjoyed traveling, and with her late husband had visited every state except Alaska.

She was the widow of Adolph C. Hilderbrand. They married at the St. Peter Catholic Church in Butler on Oct. 27, 1947, and he passed away Nov. 27, 2010.

Surviving are five children and their spouses, Sandra and Joseph Cetti and Karen Hilderbrand of Butler, Nadine and John Harding of West Sunbury, Larry A. and Janice Hilderbrand of Fenelton and Lori and Tim Welter of Butler; one brother, Ernest S. Geibel of Butler; two sisters, Doris “DeDe” Snyder and Shirley (Eugene) Widenhofer, all of Butler; 15 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.

HILDERBRAND — Friends of Pearl R. Hilderbrand, who died Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, will be received at the Geibel Funeral Home, 201 E. Cunningham St., Butler, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday.

A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday at the St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church-Coylesville, 668 Clearfield Road, Fenelton. Interment will follow in the parish cemetery.

Information also is available at www.geibelfuneralhome.com.