Hope Cemetery Cannon Restoration

06/15/2025

Honored Veteran
Memorial Day 2025.

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06/15/2025

Honored Veteran
Memorial Day 2025

Frank LeRoy Carter, 84, of Cranesville, passed away Thursday, September 5, 2024 at St. Vincent Hospital. He was born in Albion on December 27, 1939, a son of the late Rolla Carter and Ida (Graves) Carter Strait.

Frank graduated from Albion High School and he retired from GE in Erie. He served with the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He was co-pastor of Faith Independent Chapel in Gudgeonville, PA. Frank was a handyman, and he made thousands of little wooden cars over the years for Operation Christmas Child. He enjoyed baking and was well known for his peanut butter cookies.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two sisters, Jean Christy and Betty Fortney, and two brothers, Glenn and Edward Carter.

He is survived by his wife, Patricia “Pat” (Rogers) Carter, two children, Lisa Siders and her husband, Zakary, of Albion, Stephen Carter of Cranesville, three sisters, Doris Hellerman of Florida, Linda Woomer and her husband, Harry, of Albion, Judy Noerr and her husband, Bob, of Albion. Also surviving is a foster daughter, Rosanna, many close friends and many nieces and nephews.

Calling hours will be held at the Mattera Funeral Home, 188 East State Street, Albion, on Tuesday, September 10, 2024 from 2-4pm and 6-9pm. A funeral service will be held at the funeral home on Wednesday at 11am. Burial will follow with full military honors in Hope Cemetery, Wellsburg. Memorials may be made in honor of Frank to Operation Christmas Child, c/o Samaritan’s Purse, PO Box 3000, Boone, NC 28607. To send flowers, light a memory candle or leave a condolence, please visit www.matterafuneralhome.com.

06/14/2025

Honored Veteran
Memorial Day 2025
Edward L. Jeska, Emeritus Professor, Iowa State University

Edward L. Jeska died in Sanford, North Carolina on Saturday, April 5, 2025 at the age of 101.

Dr. Jeska was born August 6, 1923, to Frank A. Jeska and Martha Nowak Jeska in Erie, Pennsylvania. He attended St. Hedwig’s Elementary School and Erie East High School.

During World War II, he served as a corporal with the U.S. Army 186th Infantry Combat Team in the Pacific Theater. Following the war, he earned a B.A. from Gannon College and an M.S. from Marquette University. He later accepted a position as Head of Parasitology at the Pennsylvania Department of Health in Philadelphia, during which time he completed his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania.

He went on to serve as Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathology, and later accepted an Associate Professorship and then Full Professorship in the Veterinary Medical Research Institute at Iowa State University.

Dr. Jeska conducted significant research on inflammatory diseases, publishing widely in the field. He mentored numerous graduate students pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees and hosted visiting scholars and postdoctoral researchers throughout his career.

He held guest professorships in Poland, Austria, Brazil, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, and Switzerland, and participated in a cultural exchange with China in 1980. He also served on the editorial boards of The American Journal of Parasitology, The South African Journal of Experimental & Clinical Immunology, and The Journal of Clinical & Experimental Immunology, and as a referee on grant committees for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

In 1981, he chaired the Cell-Mediated Immunity session at the Sixth Congress of the International Federation of Parasitologists in Warsaw, Poland.

Dr. Jeska was preceded in death by his parents; his wife of 62 years, Elizabeth (Ahlgren); his daughter, Judy Grimes; and his son, Theodore Jeska. He is survived by daughters Cheryl Jeska and Meribeth Jeska, as well as two sisters, Emily Sanford and Nancy Smith.

He will be interred at Hope Cemetery in Cranesville, Pennsylvania. No service is planned.

Services entrusted to Miller-Boles Funeral Home of Sanford.

05/26/2025

Thank You to God for a beautiful day today. Thank you to everyone who helped make today possible.
And thank you to ALL of our veterans and soldiers for everything that you give and HAVE given to keep us safe and protect our freedoms.

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05/28/2024

Each year as I look across Hope, I see the many flags and I feel humbled to be standing on sacred ground. The freedoms I enjoy each day were purchased by those who served this country. Some died in battle, Some died from battle. Each year as more are added, some are friends, neighbors, some people I've never met. But I am so blessed to be able to be a part of Honoring them.
Some one asked about us doing the service with the storm warnings. If all there was would have been me, the VFW, The American Legion, I still would have been there. As long as I breathe, I will honor their memories. May God Bless the families and the soldiers.

05/28/2024

Some of our Soldiers