BOWER CECELIA M. -- Age 99, formerly of North Braddock, on Sunday, July 12, 2015, Cecelia Heupler Bower, passed into life eternal.

She was born on January 19, 1916, in North Braddock to the late George and Mary Kriegelsteiner Heupler.

She is survived by seven children and their spouses Bernadette (William) Page, Kathleen (Michael) Pratko, George (Sandy) Bower, Charles (Donna) Bower, Maria (Charles) Swearingen, Marianne (Mark) Yuill, and Virginia Bower; ten grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Beside her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, George Bower, Sr.; a daughter, Cecelia Thomas; and her brothers, Rev. Charles Heupler, O.F.M. Capuchin, and Dr. Fred Heupler.

Mrs. Bower was a 1933 graduate of Scott High School and a 1936 graduate of Saint Francis College [Error. She graduated from St. Francis School of Nursing]. Calling hours with the family will be on Wednesday from 2-6 p.m. in the SCHLEIFER FUNERAL CHAPEL, INC., (412- 271-1361), 534 Jones Avenue, North Braddock. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated in Sacred Heart Church of Good Shepherd Parish on Thursday, July 16, 2015, at 1 p.m. Burial will follow next to her husband in All Saints Cemetery, Braddock Hills.

Published in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on July 14, 2015.