Neff

Averil M. Neff, 92, of the Village of North Oakland, Chicora, died at 3:37 p.m. Monday in Butler Memorial Hospital.

Born Sept. 24, 1918, in Clearfield Township, she was the daughter of the late Leo Black and the late Clare F. O'Donnell Black.

Averil was a 1936 graduate of Butler High School and was a 1939 graduate of the Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Beaver Falls, where she completed studies and became a registered nurse.

She was a member of the St. Wendelin Roman Catholic Church, Carbon Center, and a member of the Christian Mothers of the church.

She worked with the blood bank in Chicora for more than 20 years.

She was a member of the AARP, a life member of the Tanglewood Center in Lyndora and a member of the Chicora Senior Center.

Surviving are her husband, Regis P. Neff, who she married Jan. 16, 1943; two daughters, Ruth Ann Douthett and her husband, David, of Butler, and Jeanne Aubrey and her husband, John, of Butler; two sons, David Neff and his wife, Deborah, of Chicora, and Ronald Neff and his wife, Martha, of Chicora; 11 grandchildren; four great-granddaughters; four great-grandsons; a step-great-granddaughter; a step-great-grandson; and a nephew.

She was preceded in death by a brother, Robert A. Black, and a sister, Grace Black Profota.

<B>NEFF</B> — Friends of Averil M. Neff, who died Monday, Oct. 18, 2010, will be received from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday and from 1 to 3 and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at <B>STEIGHNER FUNERAL HOME</B>, 111 E. Slippery Rock and Main streets in Chicora. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Wendelin Roman Catholic Church, 210 St. Wendelin Road, Carbon Center, with the Rev. Steven Neff, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow in the St. Joseph Cemetery, North Oakland.For more information, directions or to extend condolences to her family, go to www.steighnerfuneralhome.com.