Died Monday, April 3, 1995. She was born in Erie Oct. 23, 1945, daughter of the late Paul L. and Eleanor Smith Albracht. A 1963 graduate of Strong Vincent High School, she graduated from Penn State University in 1967 and had a 26-year career in publishing. She was the West Coast regional manager for Simon & Schuster Inc., joining the book publishing company in 1994. Before that she had been the national trade sales manager for Macmillan Publishing Co., director of national accounts and a national accounts representative in Chicago. She began her career in publishing with Noble and Noble Publishers in New York. She held sales and marketing positions at Thames and Hudson; W.W. Norton; Little, Brown Inc.; and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. In college she belonged to Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She was preceded in death by her sister, Nancy A. Chadwick