Bess T. Colley

Bess ( Treasure) Colley, age 91, 31 Beaver St., Benton, died at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at the Geisinger Medical Center, Danville. She was in failing health for one month.
Born in Cecil Township, Washington County, on May 26, 1920, she was a daughter for the late Roy H. and Lula S. Knouse Treasure.
Bess attended the Benton Schools until seventh grade when her family moved to St. Petersburg, FL, where she graduated from St. Petersburg High School in 1935. She went on to graduate from St. Petersburg Junior College in 1937 and Bixby Business School., St. Petersburg in 1939.
She was employed by the Benton Foundry, Inc. for 10 years and earlier at the former Berwick Cigar Factory.
Bess was a member of St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church, Benton. She also was a member of a pinochle club in Benton for 40 years.
She served on the election board in Benton for 30 years; as Benton boro assessor; member of the Benton Park Commission and as the Republican Committee Woman in Benton in 12 years.
Bess loved animals, especially her Boston Terrier dogs and cat.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold W. Colley on October 16, 1976 and by her sister, Vivian T. Beishline.
Surviving are a son, Roy T. Colley and his wife Pauline, Hughesville, a daughter Claudia wife of Paul E. Slonaker, Jr. Benton; three grandsons; Eric Colley, Alan Colley and his wife Char, Matthew Slonaker and his fiance Bethany Blakeslee and three great grandchildren, Katy, Caleb and Nathan Colley.
Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the Dean W Kriner Inc Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Benton, with Virginia J. Thomas, Lay Eucharistic Minister of her church officiating. Interment in Benton Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home on Monday from 6-8 p.m.