Blanche A. (Boggs) Savage

William Snyder Funeral Home

Obituaries | The Tube City Almanac | June 14, 2016

Blanche A. (Boggs) Savage, 88, of Buckhannon, WV, formerly of North Huntingdon, died Saturday June 11, 2016. She was born September 19, 1927 in Stewartsville, a daughter of the late Winston S. and Dorothy (Shirley) Boggs and was also preceded in death by her husband Norman A. Savage and a brother Winston S. Boggs. She was a graduate of Norwin High School and a registered nurse having graduated from the Westmoreland Hospital School of Nursing.

She worked as a nurse at Columbia Hospital, Wilkinsburg and was a member of the Cadet Nursing Corps. She is survived by her children, Dr. James E. Savage and his wife Pam of Bluffton, SC, Linda S. Ruhe and her husband Dave of Winter Springs, FL, Deborah Holloway and her husband Charles of Naples, FL, Dr. Mary E. Savage-Blandino and her husband Alan of Buckhannon, WV, and Thomas J. Savage and his wife Sandy of Johns Creek, GA; her fifteen grandchildren; and her six great grandchildren. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the William Snyder Funeral Home Inc., 521 Main Street, Irwin, 724-863-1200, where a funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday. Interment will follow in Long Run Cemetery. In lieu of flowers a contribution can be made to Peoples Hospice, 327 Medical Park Drive, Bridgeport, WV 26330.

To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Blanche A. Savage please visit our Sympathy Store.

Originally published June 14, 2016.

Other deaths:
"Josephine (Certo) Pon…" || "Paul J. "Pete" Waslis…"