Dolores “Dollie” Wilber of Smethport, PA passed away on June 22, 2025 at Lakeview Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center, Smethport.

Born July 14, 1936, in Portville, NY, the daughter of Edith Franklin Confer and William Goldsmith. The Granddaughter of Vernal and Martha Proper, who raised her.  On January 21, 1966, at the First Church of God in Eldred, PA she married William Wilber who passed away September 23, 2011.

Dollie was a 1954 graduate of Eldred High School as well as Rochester Business Institute, in Rochester, NY with a degree in accounting

Before returning to Eldred in 1960, she worked for the US Auditor General and the Retail Clerks, Local 345 in Rochester, NY.  In 1994, she retired after 25 years with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, retiring as a Purchasing Agent.

In 1978, she and her husband purchased the Valley Inn in Farmers Valley.  After 17 years, they sold the Valley Inn and moved to Florida where she returned to work as the project accountant at Fisherman’s Village in Punta Gorda, retiring again and returning to Pennsylvania for the summers, working as campground hosts at Willow Bay. In 2000, she went to work for Farm Credit of Southwest Florida, Arcadia, FL, retiring again in 2004 and returning to Pennsylvania to be near family.

She was an active member in the Eldred and Smethport Senior Center, the Red Hats, and life member of the VFW Auxiliary.  She was treasurer for many years of AFSCME Local 2116.  For many years she kept the score book for baseball and softball teams.

Surviving is her children William (Colleen) Wilber II, and Suzanne Chesebro of Smethport. Bonus-children, David (Debra) Wilber, Dixie (Harold) Wright of Smethport and Debra (Paul) Sample of Beaver, PA. Grandchildren are Kara (Greg) Gustin, Nathan (Shenna) Wilber, Laurie Wilber, Katie Chesebro and Emma Blaisdell; bonus grandchildren Mary (Kyle) Okerlund, Abby (Tyler) Burdick, Kari Wilber, Shannon (Chad) Kleisath, Stacey (Heath) Confer, Emily and James Sample. As well as several Great Grandchildren.

Besides her husband and parents, she was predeceased by her daughter Laurie Blaisdell 2017, son-in-law Grant Blaisdell 2020 and a sister Barbara Confer Hawley in 2011.

A Celebration of Life service will be held on July 12, 2025 at 11AM in the Hilltop Baptist Church, Gifford, with the Rev. Max Simms, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Lamphier Cemetery, Eldred.

Memorials, if desired, may be made to the Smethport Senior Center. Online condolences may be made at www.hartle-tarboxfuneralhomes.com.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Hartle-Tarbox Funeral Homes, Inc., Smethport.