Our good friend and fellow antiques dealer, Carolyn A. Petrus, 59, died Sunday, August 30, at her home.

Carolyn was active in the antiques business for more than 30 years and was well known as an expert in textiles and Americana.

She was a 1967 summa cum laude graduate of Wyoming Area High School and a 1971 graduate of Wilkes College, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics. Carolyn then pursued a master of geology and environmental sciences degree from Pennsylvania State University.

She was a licensed member of the Pennsylvania Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists and worked for 25 years as a geologist in Pennsylvania.

In recent years, Carolyn enjoyed traveling to Eastern Europe to explore her ancestry and to collect antique ethnic costumes and pagan symbolism in fabrics.

Carolyn owned and operated a bed and breakfast in a historic Eighteenth Century stone house, where she enjoyed displaying her diverse collections. She loved good food, good wine and good conversation. She enjoyed the great outdoors, spending winters skiing in upstate New York, and the rest of the year at home in Port Matilda with her dog Summer and her cat Maggie.

Carolyn had a knack for finding treasures in unlikely places. She was a regular dealer at the spring and fall Brimfield antique shows, and attended other shows in and around Pennsylvania.

Carolyn was a beautiful person who was loved and deeply appreciated by those who knew her. She will be greatly missed.

She is survived by her parents, Joseph and Katherine Petrus of Exeter, Penn., and a brother Richard Petrus of Scottsdale Ariz.

Donations may be made in Carolyn’s name to the Ovarian Cancer Society, 910 17th Street, N.W., Suite 1190, Washington D.C. 20006 or your local SPCA.

⁋aren Webb