Marlyn "Jean" Garber

Jean Garber, age 85, of Upper St. Clair, went home to the Lord on September 2, 2018 from Asbury Heights senior community in Mt. Lebanon. She was born on October 30, 1932 as the third of four daughters to Otto G. and Josephine K. Nyberg in Chicora, Butler County, Pennsylvania. She married her hometown and junior high school sweetheart Richard J. Garber in May 1953 after he returned from military service in England and she completed her nurses training and earned her Registered Nurse license under the Sisters of Saint Joseph at Divine Providence Hospital in Pittsburgh. She spent a lifetime administering to the sick at various hospitals including the Kittanning Hospital, the Canonsburg Hospital, and St. Clair Memorial Hospital where she worked for 28 years before retiring in 1993. She served as the Nurse Manager in St. Clair Hospital's oncology unit for the last 20 years of her career, where she cared for and comforted cancer patients and their families. Her selfless compassion touched an uncountable number of lives of her patients, staff, family and friends. In her spare time, she enjoyed several trips to Europe, collected antiques, and ran a little antiques store in Harmony, Pennsylvania for a few years. Surviving are her inseparable husband of 65 years, Dick Garber; son Kevin and wife Sue Garber; daughter Kelly and husband David Overstreet; daughter Krista and husband Anthony Pryor; six grandchildren Sarah (Garber) Miller (Mike) and John (Dana) Garber, Emily Overstreet, and Caroline, Katharine and Laura Pryor; four great-grandchildren Allie and Luke Miller, and Brady and Abby Garber; two sisters Pauline (Clayton) Boyle and Shirley (Dick) Graham; and numerous nieces and nephews. There will be a reception for family and friends at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in Scott Township on Friday, September 7 at 10:30AM, immediately before the Mass of Christian Burial which will begin at 11:00AM., also at Our Lady of Grace. There will be a luncheon reception after Mass from 1 to 3PM at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Fort Couch Road, Bethel Park. Private interment will be held at St. Joseph's Cemetery in North Oakland, Pennsylvania at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the Sisters of St. Joseph in Baden, Pennsylvania, one of Jean's long-standing and favorite charities, or to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.