Nettie Elizabeth (Hamilton) Prosser
NETTIE ELIZABETH (HAMILTON) PROSSER, 101, a lifelong resident of Clinton, went home to be with her Lord, on Saturday morning, November 9, 2013, at Concordia of the South Hills, after a month long illness.
Mrs. Prosser was born September 17, 1912 n Clinton, a daughter of the late Robert Erwin and Laura B. (Wilson) Hamilton.
An alumni of Finley High school, class of 1930, she attended Duffs-Iron City College to prepare as a secretary. Her first job was as a bookkeeper for her Uncle John Wilson’s Chevy dealership in Clinton. Then she worked as a secretary for an Ambridge Chevy dealership, where she met her husband, Phillip Prosser, whom she married on June 20, 1958. She and her husband were the owners and operators of a gift and watch repair shop from their home in Clinton, where she served as a notary public for 60 years.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Phillip; her sisters, Helen Gordon and Louise Purdy; her brothers, Robert and Wilson Hamilton; two nephews, Charles and Gary Hamilton; a niece, Virginia Semans; and stepchildren, David Prosser and Kathleen Ripper.
Mrs. Prosser is survived by two nephews, Randy and his wife, Barbara Hamilton, and Robert Hamilton, all of Rochester, NY; two nieces, Cheryl McDonough of MN and Sue Ellen Purdy Hamilton of Grove City; five step-grandchildren, Jim and his wife, Candice Ripper, Cindy and her husband Jeff Split, Judy Ripper, Wayne and his wife Ruth Prosser, and Marilyn Montgomery; four great-grandchildren; two great-great grandchildren, five great-nieces, ten great-great-nephews; her good friends, Kay Bonnaure, Raine Cool and Rita Geier.
Nettie was a lifelong member of the Clinton United Presbyterian Church, having been baptized as an infant, and a communicant member since age 12.
Nettie will be remembered for her generous nature and non-udgemental attitude toward others.
Friends will be received in the MOODY FUNERAL HOME, Route 30, Clinton, Wednesday 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Everyone is asked to meet at the Clinton United Presbyterian Church Thursday, where her services will be held at 11 a.m. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.