Margaret E. Knox

August 15, 2015 - November 5, 2015

Margaret E. Knox, 92, of Rochester Township, passed away Thursday, November 5, 2015, in Trinity Oaks Personal Care Center. Born August 15, 1923, in Rochester, a daughter of the late Roy F. and Edna Young Corless, she was a homemaker and a member of the Faith Community United Methodist Church, Rochester. She was preceded in death by her husband, William J. Knox, in 1975; four brothers, Thomas, George, Frederick and Robert Corless, and three sisters, Betty Nanette Turner, Nancy Powers and Hazel Mitchell. Surviving are two daughters and sons-in-law, Susan K. and her husband John Kroskey, Rochester Twp., and Wilma J. Knox and her husband James Pioch, Fairport, NY; two grandchildren, Patricia Marie Kroskey, Ambridge, and Amy Catherine Kroskey, Freedom; a sister, Gertrude "Trudy" Temer, Ambridge; four brothers and two sisters-in-law, Melvin and Susan Corless, Baden; Donald and Dottie Corless, Ambridge; Frank Corless, Smithville, MO, and James Corless, Philadelphia; special nieces and nephew, George "Buddy" Corless, Atlanta, GA; Mary Margaret Corless, New Brighton; Marsha Kirschler, Burgettstown, and Donna Monton, Sun Valley, CA, and several other nieces and nephews. Friends will be received Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. in the WILLIAM MURPHY FUNERAL HOME INC., 349 Adams St., Rochester, where a service will be held Monday at 11 a.m. Her pastor, Rev. Dr. Donald Dotterer, will officiate. Interment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made, if desired, to the Beaver County Humane Society, 3394 Brodhead Road, Aliquippa, PA 15001, or to Trinity Oaks Personal Care Center, 160 Chapel Road, Beaver, PA 15009. The family wishes to give special thanks to Nancy Simmons and staff at Trinity Oaks Personal Care Center and her caregivers with Gateway Hospice for the compassion and comfort given to our mother.