Mary Joanne Kress Towsey

Mary Joanne Kress Towsey, 73, of Zelienople, passed away at 9:42 p.m. Monday at the Evergreen Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.

Mary Jo was born Dec. 25, 1942, in Akron, Ohio, to Harry and Mildred (Potts) Kress, and moved in 1943 to Zelienople.

She graduated from Zelienople High School in 1960. She continued her education at Point Park Junior College Secretarial School. She worked for Equitable Gas in Pittsburgh from 1961 to 1988. Mary Jo has been involved in their class reunion work-up since 1975, including making an information book containing everyone's names.

Mary also was involved in the church music at the Park United Presbyterian Church in Zelienople for about 62 years and was a member of the first junior choir. Mary Jo was a member of the bell choir at the church; she also taught Sunday school and was the organist for almost eight years. She played the organ at the Camp Run Church in Fombell for 19 years.

In her free time, she loved going camping in the beautiful Allegheny National Forest, and sitting on her deck and watching the bears in the back yard. She and her husband, David, had several beautiful adventures together. She will be dearly missed and fondly remembered.

Mary Jo leaves behind to cherish her memory, her husband, David Towsey; her brother, Donald; her sister-in-law, Joanne; her nephew, David, and his wife, Letetia, and their two daughters, Emily and Kati; and her niece, Stephanie, and her husband, Aaron, and their three children, Aubree, Wyatt and Hayden.

TOWSEY — The family of Mary Joanne Kress Towsey, who died Monday, July 18, 2016, will conduct a memorial service in Mary Jo's honor later.Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to the Boylan Funeral Home, 324 E. Grandview Ave., Zelienople, PA 16063.