Aerial Fullington Weisman of Clearfield and formerly of Pittsburgh died Saturday at home.
Born March 19, 1949 in Clearfield, she was the only daughter of Richard “Dick” and Mildred “Tillie” (Fink) Fullington.
A 1967 Clearfield Area High School graduate, Mrs. Weisman was involved in band, orchestra and chorus, in addition to being in National Honor Society. She attended Pennsylvania State University, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing in 1972. She was employed in the cardiac unit of Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and went on to be a cardiac medical sales representative. In 2003, she returned to Clearfield to assist her family at The Fullington Auto Bus Company as president and chief executive officer.
She was a life-time member of the St. John Lutheran Church in Clearfield and was a member of the church council. In 2007, she was awarded as one of the “Best Fifty Women in Business” by the state of Pennsylvania. She has served on the executive committee and the board of directors for the Pennsylvania Bus Association and National Trailways Transportation System.
Her greatest joy was her immediate family, her close friends and the Fullington Family of Employees, whom she valued and respected very much.
She was married to Milton H. Weisman, who survives her, on Oct. 27, 1984.
Also surviving are her brothers, Michael L. Fullington and his wife, Lory of State College and John Richard Fullington Jr.; her sister-in-law, Loretta Peters Fullington of Clearfield; her nieces and nephews, Heidi Fullington Burke, Michael John Fullington, Matthew Fullington, Tenley Fullington Warhurst and Cassandra Fullington; her great niece and nephew, Liam Burke, Lily Burke and Finn Burke.
She is preceded in death by her mother and father.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the St. John Lutheran Church, 217 East Pine St., Clearfield, with the Rev. Robert Way officiating. Interment will follow at Crown Crest Memorial Park.
Friends will be received from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Thursday and from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Friday at the Bennett and Houser Funeral Home, 312 East Locust St., Clearfield. Friends will also be received from 9 a.m. until the hour of services Saturday at the church.
The family suggests that memorial contributions be made to the Clearfield Food Bank, c/o Trinity United Methodist Church, 121 South Second St., Clearfield, PA, 16830; St. John Lutheran Church for the Children’s Education Fund, 217 East Pine St., Clearfield, PA 16830; Clearfield Hospital Hospice, 438 West Front St., P.O. Box 992, Clearfield, PA 16830; or Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave., New York, NY 10065.
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