of Slate Hill, NY (formerly of Butler, NJ) entered into rest on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at home. She was 83.
The daughter of the late Helen and Albert Leeper, she was born on July 2, 1925..
Florence was a retired Seamstress with Robert F. Gaiser, Butler, NJ, where she worked for many years.
She was predeceased by her husband, Leonard Kitchell and her sister, Helena Leinweber.
She was the devoted mother of her surviving children: Barbara Penaluna and her husband Richard, Patricia Kitchell, and Leonard David Kitchell and his wife Marita; loving grandmother of Renee Fenical, Richard Penaluna III and his wife Brenda, Jill Wieboldt and her husband Will, Nycole Ford and her husband Mark, and Kristyna Kitchell; dearest great-grandmother to Justin, Joshua, and Shelby Fenical, Richard IV and Lydia Penaluna, and Olivia Wieboldt. She is also survived by her brother, Albert Leeper and his wife Terry.
Visitation will be on Thursday, February 26th, from 5:00-8:00 pm at Lazear-Smith & Vander Plaat Memorial Home, 17 Oakland Avenue, Warwick. Funeral service will be at 10:00 am on Friday at the funeral home. Interment will follow in Mount Evergreen Cemetery, Kinnelon, NJ.