Mildred Irene Olinger

Mildred Irene (Kunselman) Olinger, 87, of Kittanning, died Thursday, Dec. 29, 2005, in the Kittanning Care Center.

She was born Feb. 23, 1918, in Redbank Township to Wallace McKinley and Grace Irene (Cramer) Kunselman. Mrs. Olinger was a homemaker.

She was a member of the Union Avenue Methodist Church. She did lots of handiwork, knitting and crocheting. She was a lifelong resident of her community. Survivors include four sons, William Allen Olinger of Plaquemine, La., Mark Thomas Olinger of Kittanning, Scott Matthew Olinger of Orlando, Fla. and Jeffrey Alan Olinger of Tarentum; four daughters, Carole Irene Maley of Ford City, Nancy Jane Altman of Baker, La., Patricia Ann Stumpf of Gonzales, La. and Connie Sue Paulat of Kent, Ohio; 10 grandsons; seven granddaughters; seven great-grandsons; six great-granddaughters; and one great-great-grandson. She was preceded in death by her father, who died in 1961; her mother, in 1982; her husband, John T. ?Jack? Olinger, in 1990; one son, John T. Olinger Jr., in 1958; and one grandson, Allan Philip Bowser, in 1982. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Snyder-Crissman Funeral Home, Inc., 200 S. McKean St., Kittanning, where funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday with the Rev. George Hall officiating. Burial will be in the Kittanning Cemetery.