Virginia Ruth Gainer

P. DEAN HOMER FUNERAL HOME 206 WATER STREET PO BOX 1 DUSHORE, PA 18614 TEL 570 928-8163 FAX 570 928-8116 Email pdh@epix.net March 24, 2008 OBITUARY Virginia Ruth Bullock Gainer, age 70, of Dushore, PA passed away peacefully on Monday, April 07, 2008 at her home with her loving family at her side. Virginia was born November 7, 1937 in Wyalusing Township a daughter of the late Charles W. and Edna M. Adams Bullock. She graduated from Turnpike High School, Mildred, PA a member of the class of 1955. Following graduation she started working for the Endicott Johnson Shoe Company in Mildred. She left the shoe factory after a few years and worked in the Ben Franklin Store in Dushore. She married John J. Gainer of Dushore, PA on June 18, 1960. On Valentine’s Day 1962 she and Jack purchased Hamer’s Atlantic Service Station from John Hamer in Dushore. Virginia helped in the garage from 1962 until 1990. Virginia then went to work for the Sullivan Review where she learned the printing press and became a master printer. She worked at her printing job until July of 2007 when her illness forced her to retire. Virginia was a very active member of St. Basil’s Church and Altar and Rosary Society and also the Dushore Fire Co. She would help at every church activity, especially the 4th of July Picnic and the fall hunters’ spaghetti Dinner. She solicited ads for the Picnic Ad Book for many years and then set it up and printed it. She was an indispensible member of the Dushore Fire Co., who worked incessantly and quietly in the background, answering ambulance calls for many years before the number 911was installed. She would coordinate and help make sandwiches, and prepare coffee for the firemen when they were out on a late night or early morning fire. She ran the cake wheel and helped with the auction at the yearly fireman’s carnival in June of each year. In 1978 the fire company had a huge fundraiser to pay off long term debt and rehabilitate the fire house. She not only helped with the fundraising but every year since, she has helped maintain the database of folks in the fire and ambulance coverage area, but also printed the raffle tickets, letters and then labeled the packets before going to the post office for mailing. She did all this up to last summer when her health began to fail her. Surviving: Spouse: John J. Gainer at home A son and daughter-in-law: Ronald and Kathlyn Gainer Winsted, CT Daughter and son-in-law: Connie and Frank Carr Wilmot, PA Grandchildren Shauna, Brandon and Anthony Carr; Margaret and Kathlyn Gainer. Sisters and brothers-in-law: Dorothy Fitzgerald Fayetteville, NC Joan (Charles) Sanderson Sugar Run, PA Judith (William) Dolde Naples, FL Brother and sister-in-law: Richard (Eileen) Wellesville, PA Numerous nieces and nephews and cousins. She was predeceased by an infant daughter, Marie and a brother, Ron Bullock on October 30, 1963. Funeral Services will be held on Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 11:00 A.M. and followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 11:30 A.M. at St. Basil’s Church Dushore, with the Rev. Bert S. Kozen, her pastor, presiding. Interment will be in St. Basil’s Cemetery. Friends may call on Wednesday, Apr. 9 from 2:00 to 4:00 P.M. and from 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. Members of the St. Basil’s St. Francis Altar and Rosary Society will recite the rosary at 3:00 P.M. and there will be a Vigil Service at 3:45 P.M. The Family will provide the Flowers and request that memorial be directed in her memory to St. Basil’s Restoration Fund, PO Box 307, Dushore, PA 18614 or the Dushore Fire and Ambulance Association, PO Box 1, Dushore, PA 18614. To send condolences or sign the e-guestbook, please go to homerfuneralhome.com To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Virginia Ruth Gainer, please visit our flower store.