Mattie Virginia Stitt Wheatcroft

Youngstown- Funeral services will be held 10 AM Thursday at the Lane Funeral Home- Mineral Ridge Chapel for Mattie V. Wheatcroft, age 83 who died Sunday evening at Hospice House. Mattie was born June 25, 1927 in McDonald and was the daughter of the late George and Mattie (Emery) Clark. She had worked for SCOPE in Warren as a cook. She had also been a cashier at the commissary at Fort Story in Virginia Beach and a cashier at several restaurants and a grocery store in Niles. Her first husband Burrell Robert Stitt whom she married Sept. 23, 1945 died Oct. 6, 1999. She is survived by her second husband James Wheatcroft whom she married Oct. 31, 2009. She leaves two children Burrell R. Stitt, Jr. of Niles, Rev. Larry G. (Sharon) Stitt of New Cumberland, OH, and five grandchildren, Jason, Adam, Laura, Joshua, Kenneth and one great grandson, Trey Skjold. She was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband, a daughter Joyce Juart and six sisters and four brothers, George Clark, Henry Clark, Leroy Clark, Jim Clark, Gladys Grantz, Margaret Grantz, Clara Grantz, Annie Rounsley, Elsie Miller and Ruth Bundy. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-7 PM on Wed. The family requests that material contributions be made to Hospice House.