Eleanor Hilton Bergstraser, teacher

Eleanor L. Hilton Bergstraser of Springville, Pa., a former teacher who was known here as Eleanor Hilton, died Tuesday, Feb. 20, at Wayside Hospice, Wayland, Mass. She was 68 years old.
She was the wife of Roy Bergstraser. Her first husband, J. Richard Hilton died here April 23, 1982.
Born in Reading, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Carroll S. Dick and H. Lynnette Rhoads Dick. She was a 1950 graduate of Reading High School, and a 1954 graduate of Albright College where she earned a bachelor’s degree in education.
Mrs. Bergstraser had been an English teacher at Trinity Pawling School in Pawling, N.Y., for nine years, retiring in 1999. She had lived in Charter Oak Court for about 10 years in the late 1970s and the 1980s.
Surviving are her husband, Roy Bergstraser; a daughter Robin Hilton Balin of Stowe, Mass.; two sons, J. Timothy Hilton of Springvale, Maine, and Thomas C. Hilton of Pylesville, Md.; a sister, Carolyn Dick Jimski, of Pennside, Pa.; a stepson, James L. Bergstraser of Wingdale, N.Y.; a stepdaughter, Kathryn Bergstraser Setta, of Lago Vista, Texas, and two grandchildren.
Memorial services were Friday at Merner-Pfeiffer-Klein Memorial Chapel, Albright College, Reading, Pa.