On March 1, 2023, Doris Louise Durnell Foltz, of Mill Village, PA, passed away peacefully at 93 after a brief illness. She was born in Rathmel, Pennsylvania on December 27, 1929, the daughter of the late Victor Durnell and Geneva Blodgett Durnell. On October 14, 1950 she married William M. Foltz and celebrated 54 years of marriage with him before his death in 2004. She had been an active member of the Mill Village Presbyterian Church where she previously served as Clerk on the Board of Session, and helped with Vacation Bible School. In her later years, she enjoyed living at Shenango on the Green in New Wilmington, PA where she was lovingly called the “Scrabble Lady.”

Doris is survived by her daughter, Brenda M. Stelle and her husband, Steve, of New Castle, PA; two grandsons, Joshua (Elizabeth) of New Castle, PA and Caleb Stelle (Julie) of Harrisburg, PA; a great-granddaughter, Nehemiah Joy, three great-grandsons, Jacob, Henry and Judah Stelle, and one sister, Elizabeth (Sam) Harmon of Reynoldsville, PA, as well as many nieces and nephews. She is also predeceased by a daughter, Lori A. Dewey, a loss she truly never recovered from.

Funeral services will be held on Monday morning at 11:00 a.m. at Van Matre Funeral Home, 105 Walnut Street, Waterford, PA with visitation the hour prior. Rev. Robert A. Willert will be officiating. Interment will follow at Mill Village Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Mill Village Presbyterian Church.