Mary Lou Hines

Mary Louise Kopf Hines, 90, of Prospect peacefully passed away at home on Saturday evening, June 19, 2021.

Born June 30, 1930, in Wallaceville, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Milo Norris and Pearl Lura Wygant Kopf.

She was a 1948 graduate of the former Colestock High School in Venango County.

As a young lady, she worked at the Polk Center School. She met her soon to be husband, John P. Hines III, where he had worked also. They married and he went off to the Marines. She drove cross-country to be with him, and then worked on the Marine PX Exchange at the El Toro Base in San Diego, Calif. They moved home, back to Pennsylvania, where they began their family.

As a mother, she loved to bake breads and cookies, cook, garden and would grow the most elaborate outdoor flower beds. She sold Fashion 220 Cosmetics and Avon. She was well-known and loved by the neighborhood kids, whom she would enjoy conversations with from little kids to young adults. She loved everyone.

She was an avid traveler, with many stories to share, where she visited many U.S. states, England, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Mexico, where she fought the Bull with her red half slip, wintered in Florida, and always looked forward to the yearly trip to visit family in the Southwest. She sponsored the San Luis School in the Amazon Basin, where she had traveled, visited and delivered supplies to numerous times. In her later years, she enjoyed dining out, music and dancing.

She was very active in the Prospect Community, where she was a member of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Prospect Women’s Club, served on the board of the Prospect Community Library, 20th Century Club, past president of the former Prospect 4-H Club, served on the Slippery Rock Area School District board, where she was a past president for over 10 years, longtime worker on the Prospect Election Board, in the early 1980s walked door to door as a census worker, and volunteered at the Rube’s Run fundraiser in Prospect.

She also was a member of the Butler Chapter 45 Order of the Eastern Star, and previously served on the Butler Memorial Hospital board for many years. She retired in 2000 from the Butler ARC, where she was a caregiver house parent.

She enjoyed time with her husband, where she was the secretary treasurer of his business, Shaffer’s Tractor Sales in Prospect, until he sold the business in 1989. She also was his Fair Board Director’s Wife for The Big Butler Fair, where she volunteered in every aspect as needed during those years.

Momma Lou loved her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, their friends, neighborhood kids, cats, dogs, and her kitties, Bruce and Blue, who survive.

She is survived by her children, Diane (Max) Bishop of Connoquenessing Township, Laurie (Gary) Hoffman of Fort Myers, Fla., Patti (Mark) Denny of Butler, and Henry Bergbigler of Denver, Colo.; her four granddaughters, Danielle (Erik) Harris, Lisa (Brian) Friedhaber, Mercedes (Loren Lawrence) Denny and Mackenzie (Addie Lowery) Denny; her three great-grandchildren, Fitzroy Harris, Sigrid Harris and Hedy Lawrence; and her brother, Raymond (Nancy) Kopf of Chapmanville, Pa.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, John P. Hines III, whom she married Dec. 15, 1950, and who passed away April 21, 2001; and her siblings, John M. Kopf, Willis C. Kopf, James L. Kopf, Norma Kopf and Bettie A Kopf.

HINES — The family of Mary Louise Kopf Hines, who died Saturday, June 19, 2021, will receive relatives and friends from 1 to 2 p.m, Tuesday, July 13, 2021, at Mount Chestnut Presbyterian Church Picnic Shelter, 727 W. Old Route 422, Butler.

A celebration of life service will follow at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Margarethe Galbraith-Cordes, her church pastor officiating.

The funeral luncheon will follow at 3 p.m. at the church picnic shelter.

Cremation services were entrusted to the Raisley Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 387 Main St., Prospect.

To leave an online tribute, go to www.raisleyfuneralhome.com.