Martha Mary (Seidel) Sullivan, 83, Somerset RD 2, formerly of Ross Township, Pittsburgh, died Thursday, Feb. 2, 1995, at West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh.

Born Jan. 24, 1912, in Altoona. Daughter of the late Adolph Joseph Seidel and Frances Catherine (Zoellner) Seidel.

Survived by daughter, Barbara M. Sullivan, Ph.D., Somerset; grandson, Eric Richard Scott of Bloomington, Ill.; one sister, Sister Wilma Seidel, C.S.A. of Fond du Lac, Wisc.; also nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.

Preceded in death by her husband John F. (Jack) Sullivan; daughter Joan Helen (Sullivan) Scott; four sisters and four brothers.

She moved to Somerset after her retirement in 1978 from the Allegheny County Department of Health, where she served as a registered nurse at the North Park Swimming Pool and Ice Skating Rink.

A 1933 graduate of St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing, Pittsburgh. She worked at St. Francis Hospital as a nursing instructor and a registered nurse.

Was an Oblate of St. Benedict, a member of St. Francis Hospital Alumni Association, Allegheny County Retired Employees Association, American Association of Retired Nurses, Laurel Arts, Dressler Center in Somerset, and the Crochet Guild of Somerset.

Member of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church of Somerset, formerly a member of St. Athanasius Roman Catholic Church in West View, Pittsburgh.

The family will receive friends on Tuesday, Feb. 7, from 7-9 p.m. at the H.P. Brandt Funeral Home Inc., 1032 Perry Highway, Ross Township, Pittsburgh. A Con-celebrated Mass of Christian Burial with Father Raymond Trance and representatives of St. Athanasius Church, the Johnstown-Altoona Diocese, St. Vincent's Archabbey and the Capuchian Priory will be held at St. Athanasius Church, Chalfonte Ave., West View, Pittsburgh, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at 11 a.m. Burial in North Side Catholic Cemetery, Ross Township.

In lieu of flowers, the family would like donations to St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, or the Somerset Ambulance Association, Somerset.

[Transcribed by Rich Boyer for the USGenWeb Project.]