Alpha Marzell "Faye" Traugh

Alpha M. “Faye” Traugh, age 84, 19 Grotto Drive, Danville, died at her home at 12:55 p. m. Thursday, January 2, 2014 after being in failing health for the past year.

Born in Shannon, Floyd County, Georgia on January 16, 1929, she was a daughter of the late Frank M., Sr. and Leona (Johnson) Moore. She resided in Rome, Georgia before moving to Danville in 1972 and  was a 1945 graduate of Girls High School, Rome.

Faye was employed in the food service industry while residing in Georgia.

She was a member of the Congregational Holiness Church, Rome, Ga. and had attended the Shiloh United Church of Christ  in Danville.. She also was a member of the Danville Elks and the American Ex-Prisoners of War Club.

Faye was preceded in death by her husband, Donald G. Traugh on June 6, 2005; by a daughter, Gwendolyn Russel; by a grandson, James Cropf; four sisters: Gwendolyn Taylor; Mildred Horsely; Opal Cornett; and Willie Chambers.

Surviving are six children: Anita E., wife of James Cropf, Danville; twins, Donald G. Traugh, III and his wife Brenda, Catawissa and Diane, wife of Paul Shires, Bloomsburg; Wayne E. Traugh, and his wife Susan, Franklin, Wis.; Robert Traugh, and his wife Kathy, Bloomsburg; Gail Traugh, Berwick; 14 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; 1 great-great-grandson; and a brother, F. M. Moore, Atlanta, Ga.

The family would like to thank her caregivers for their dedicated and compassionate service to Faye in her final months.

Funeral services will be held on Monday at 2:30 P. M. in the Roat-Kriner Funeral Home, 1715 Bloom Road, Danville, with R. Christian Dunlap, Columbia Montour Hospice Chaplain officiating. Interment in Elan Memorial Park, Lime Ridge.

The family will provide flowers. Memorials may be sent to the American Diabetes Assn., 3544 N. Progress Ave., Suite 202, Harrisburg, PA 17110 or to the American Cancer Society, 1420 N. Susquehanna Trail, Selinsgrove, Pa 17870.