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Alice "Roselyn"
O'Brien
Sep 22, 1953 — Nov 7, 2021
Monongahela
Alice "Roselyn" O'Brien, 68, of Monongahela, died Sunday, November 7, 2021 in her home. She was born September 22, 1953 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, the daughter of the late Clifton Earl and Hattie Belle Snelle Bell.
Roselyn was raised in Mississippi and in her younger years was a substitute English teacher for middle and high school. She held the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army reserves. A very active member of Edwards Chapel, where she printed the bulletins, composed the newsletters, taught Sunday school and was a worship leader for a long time. She was a certified lay servant and speaker of the United Methodist Church Washington District and on the Western Pennsylvania Conference Disability Awareness Committee. Roselyn was active in many different local community theater companies and later in life made several youtube videos with her son, Robert, entitled "Whispers of Worship".
She is survived by her husband, Robert M. O'Brien with whom she celebrated forty four years of marriage on November 20, 2020; two sons, Robert M. O'Brien, II, Wayne Earl O'Brien, daughter, Amanda Rose O'Brien, all at home; granddaughter, Angel Marie Anderson; two brothers, Randy Jo Bell of Louisiana, Willie Fred Bell of Mississippi; three sisters, Nancy Wright, Peggy Brown and Geneva Williamson, all of Mississippi; and numerous nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Walter Bell.
Private visitations and services were held and interment was in the Monongahela Cemetery. The Frye Funeral Home Inc. of Monongahela was in charge of the arrangements.
The family suggests memorial contributions be made to the National MS Society, PO Box 91891, Washington, DC 20090 nationalmssociety.org.
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