WATSONTOWN - Elizabeth A. Aikey, 73, of Main Street passed away Monday, March 21, 2005, in Williamsport Hospital.
She was born June 24, 1931, in Lewisburg, a daughter of the late Clark and Miriam (Baker) Edinger. On Aug. 10, 1957, she married Galen L. Aikey Sr., with whom she celebrated 37 years of marriage before his death on March 1, 1995.
Elizabeth was a 1949 graduate of Milton High School and graduated from Pierce School of Business in Philadelphia.
She retired from New Quaker 2 Industries, Lewisburg, and had previously been employed by the Milton Shoe Factory for many years.
Surviving are one son and daughter-in-law, Galen L. Jr. and Donna Aikey of Milton; five daughters, Virginia Bieber of Watsontown, Anna and her husband Robert Herrick of Millmont, Sandy Aikey of New Columbia, Dora and her husband Norman Trautwein of Trout Run and Holly Aikey of New Columbia; one stepdaughter and her husband, Linda and Robert Criswell of RR1 Mifflinburg; eight grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; six great-grandchildren; two step great-grandchildren; one brother and sister-in-law, John and Judy Edinger of New Columbia; one sister, Geraldine Byers of Danville; and one sister-in-law, Shirley Jean Edinger.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Maurice "Bud" and Clarkie Edinger, and one sister, Beatrice Neitz.
The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. today at the Brooks Funeral Home, 124 Main St., Watsontown, with the Rev. Sandra Foster of Trout Run United Methodist Church officiating.
Burial will follow in Forest Hill Cemetery, RR Lewisburg.
This obituary was originally published in The Daily Item.
