Anna Mae D. Nevel, 71, of Main Street in St. Petersburg, Clarion County, died at 9:05 p.m. Wed-nesday at UPMC Northwest in Seneca, Venango County, after a long illness.

Born in Pittsburgh, June 23, 1935, she was a daughter of Edward S.F. and Jean L. Lenczewiski Drozda.

She was a 1953 graduate of the St. Petersburg-Richland High School and had worked for some time at the Quaker State Corp. in Emlenton. She later was a library aide for the Allegheny-Clarion Valley School District at the Emlenton Elementary School and then at A-C Valley Elementary School in Foxburg, where she retired in 2000.

Mrs. Nevel was a member of St. Michael Roman Catholic Church, Emlenton.

She enjoyed cross-stitching and visiting with her children and grandchildren.

Surviving are her husband, Roy E. Nevel, whom she married April 16, 1955, at St. Michael Church in Emlenton; three daughters and their husbands, Christina A. Nevel-McGarvey, Ph.D., and her husband, Terence, of Montoursville, Lisa A. Guerra and her husband, Andy, of San Antonio, Texas, and Melissa A. Norris and her husband, David, of Fairfax Station, Va. Three grandchildren, Tiffany M. Preston of San Antonio and Terence W. IV and Seamus R. McGarvey, both of Montoursville, also survive.

She was preceded in death by a brother, Edward Drozda.

<B>NEVEL </B>— Friends of Anna Mae D. Nevel, who died Wednesday, July 19, 2006, will be received from 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the <B>Hile Funeral Home</B>, 1204 Kerr Ave., Emlenton. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Michael Roman Catholic Church, Emlenton, with the Rev. Conrad Kraus officiating. Burial will be at the St. Michael Cemetery, Emlenton.A parish vigil service will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home, and recitation of the rosary will be held at 8:45 p.m. Sunday at the funeral homeMemorial contributions be made to the Emlenton Area Ambulance Service, P.O. Box 346, Emlenton, PA 16373.