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Mabel Clara Long Armentrout, 84, a resident at Harrisonburg Health & Rehabilitation Center for the past five years, and formerly of Keezletown, died Wednesday, June 18, 2008, at the Health Center. She had been in declining health for several years.
Mrs. Armentrout was born Dec. 30, 1923, in the Gravels area of Rockingham County, and was the daughter of the late Bernie Duke and Esther Lee Boyers Long. Mrs. Armentrout grew up in the Gravels area and was a graduate of Linville-Edom High School, where she was a member of the basketball team. She lived in Keezletown for 50 years and was a member of the Keezletown United Methodist Church, where she taught Sunday School for many years. She enjoyed sewing and making crafts and won many Blue Ribbons for her work at the Rockingham County Fair. She retired from Continental Telephone Co. in 1982.
On June 27, 1942, she married Oliver Dewey Armentrout Jr., who died on Sept. 1, 1992. Mrs. Armentrout is survived by a son, Donald L. "Jack" Armentrout and wife, Ellen (Frank), Warrenton, Va.; sisters, Margaret Hedrick and Carolyn Piner, both of Keezletown; grandchildren, Jan Ellis and husband, Dave, Alva, Okla., Kevin Armentrout and wife, Patricia, Lorton, Va.; great-grandson, David Lee Ellis II; and numerous nieces and nephews. Besides her parents and husband, Mrs. Armentrout was preceded in death by siblings, Letha Townsend, Mary Boyers, A. Frank Long Sr., Ruth Raynes, Rosa Jones, John Harvey Long, William Henry Long, Avis Pirkey, Carl Edward Long, and a great-granddaughter, Carrollen Jan "Carlie" Ellis.
Funeral services will be held 3 p.m. Sunday, June 22, 2008, at the Keezletown United Methodist Church. The Rev. Dawn-Marie Singleton will conduct the service. Burial will follow in the Keezletown Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday at the church.
Services entrusted to the Kyger Funeral Home in Harrisonburg.
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