This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith, Stolts, Kreckel, Anderson, Nomes Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/11731 Message Board Post: PJ: Tues. 8/16/2005: Erie - Penny Sue Smith, 26, of Wesleyville, died Tuesday morning (Aug. 9,2005) in Saint Vincent Health Center. An Erie area resident the past eight years, she was born May 3, 1979, in Springville, the daughter of Kathy Stolts Smith Kreckel and the late Jack C. Smith. She attended Southwestern High School and was a graduate of Maple Grove High School. She received her New York State Regents Diploma while a patient at the Lake Erie Institute of Rehabilitation during a special ceremony and presentation recognizing her accomplishment. She had been employed by Heritage Green. Despite becoming a quadriplegic due to an accident eight years ago, she had a very active life and always greeted everyone with a wonderful smile. Surviving, besides her mother of Wesleyville, are her stepfather, Ernest V. Kreckel Sr.; a brother, Ryan Anderson of Wesleyville; a sister, Krista Nomes of Jamestown; and a stepbrother, Ernest Kreckel Jr. of Warren. The funeral service was held Aug. 13, in the Russell C. Schmidt & Son Funeral Home, 5000 Wattsburg Road, Erie. The Rev. George Kennedy officiated. Interment was private.