Samuel H. Harvey

Samuel H. Harvey, 99, formerly of Graysville, died at 10:20 p.m. Sunday, July 6, 2014, in the Respi Center West, Waynesburg. He was born May 13, 1915, in Center Township, a son of the late Samuel Hawkins and Irene Dunn Carter Harvey. Mr. Harvey resided in Carlisle, Carmichaels and Waynesburg, and was educated in a one-room school (Harvey) in Center Township. He attended Hickorytown United Methodist Church, while a resident of the Carlisle area, where he served as superintendent, Sunday school teacher, trustee and chairman of the church building committee. He also was a member of Rogersville United Methodist Church. Mr. Harvey also was a member and past master of Harvey-Aleppo Grange 1444 in Graysville, Graysville Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, West Greene Senior Citizens and a charter member of West Greene Area Lions Club. He resided in Carlisle from 1957 until returning to Greene County in 1986, when he purchased the family property in Center Township and raised registered Suffolk sheep until 1999. Mr. Harvey was employed by Texas Eastern Gas Co. for 31 years, in Greene County and Uniontown, prior to retiring in 1980 from the Carlisle station as maintenance foreman, a position he held from 1957 until 1978. On December 12, 1934, he married Laura Ella Johnson, who died December 19, 1999. On June 3, 2000, he married a childhood friend, Dorothy Goodwin Forshey, who died December 16, 2006. Surviving are two sons, Samuel J., husband of Kitty Harvey of Crown Point, Ind., and Robert D. Harvey of Boiling Springs; three grandchildren, David S. Harvey, Bree Hovetter and Gavin Mitchell Harvey; six great-grandchildren, Alyssa Michelle, Emily Rose, Kyle David, Mikala Rose and Tiffany Paige Harvey and Emersen Payce Hovetter; a sister, Jeannette Iams Perky of Muncie, Ind.; and several nieces and nephews. Deceased, in addition to his parents and wives, are four sisters, Josephine Kinney, Evelyn McDonald, Margaret Stewart and Kathrine Carter. Friends will be received from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in Rush Funeral Home Inc., Rogersville, where services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 10, with the Rev. Bruce Judy officiating. Interment will follow in Rosemont Cemetery, Rogersville. The family suggests memorial contributions be made to Rogersville United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 315, Rogersville, PA 15359. Family and friends may view the obituary and send condolences at www.rushfuneralhomeinc.com.

Published in Observer-Reporter from July 8 to July 9, 2014