Mary Virginia Richey Senyk of Hallieford, born in Port Arthur, Texas, March 1, 1914, died Oct. 3, 2013, in her one hundredth year of life.

Her father, Thomas Snipes Richey, descended from a line of Scotch-Irish Richeys who landed in Delaware in 1728 and helped settle the country through Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Her mother, Margaret Ruth Richey, descended from another line of Richeys traceable back through Tennessee and North Carolina.

She attended public schools in Beaumont, Texas. She displayed a talent for music, concentrating on the piano and bass viol. She traveled to Colorado Springs, Colo., to participate in the 1931 Southwest Music Supervisors Conference, an orchestra of some 240 musicians and a large chorus, all students drawn from 10 states in the southwest U.S. For much of the rest of her life she entertained her family daily playing on the piano the great musical works of the centuries. She added to her skills mothering, sewing, and embroidery, and the wind instrument, the recorder. Numerous family homes are adorned with her embroidered works of art. She was a member of the Mt. Lebanon United Methodist Church outside Pittsburgh, Pa., for more than 60 years.

She was predeceased by her husband of 61 years, Joseph Senyk; siblings, Thomas Stanford Richey (Faye), Alvan Edgar Richey (Bess and Lottie), Frank Robert Richey, and Margaret Ruth Richey Peterson (Harold). She is survived by sibling, Charles Wesley Richey (Lorraine); daughter, Virginia Ann Senyk; son, Joseph Michael Senyk (Joan and Jane), their children and grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.

Cremains will be interred at a later date in Jefferson Memorial Park outside Pittsburgh.

Contributions may be made to the Mt. Lebanon United Methodist Church, 3319 West Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15216 or to the Mathews Volunteer Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 723, Mathews, Va. 23109.