About Our
Award-Winning Agency
Meet the Team
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Beth Fox-Dean is a current partner of Fox Family Insurance and has over 30 years of experience in the insurance industry. She specializes in helping seniors find Medicare plans to address their needs and concerns – working one on one with them to help design a plan that fits their lifestyle and budget. Beth is licensed with multiple companies to provide her clients a variety of options to better serve them. She takes numerous continuing education courses for this specialty annually and she has also earned her LUTCF designation as well has attended several Erie Insurance Agent College courses.
Beth and the rest of the Fox Family team hold multiple meetings each year to help seniors understand the annual changes to Medicare and how their coverage may change from year to year. She has been a licensed agent since 1991 and enjoyed partnering with her brother and sister in continuing the family business that their father, George C Fox Sr., began in 1966.
She is an active part of the local community. She is involved as a mentor for at risk teens and young adults through local programs district and is also a past president of the Kiwanis Club of Corry. Beth desires to continue in the philosophy that their father operated in. "Our Dad taught us to treat people like family, with respect, and to truly do our best to take care of the needs of people," Beth was born and raised in Corry, PA and graduated from Corry High School. Beth lived in Atlanta in her early adult life and oversaw concert booking and promotions for a Grammy winning Christian Rock Band – Mylon & Broken Heart. She has 2 sons: Parker and Connor.
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Patty Sorenson joined Fox Family Insurance back in 2008 with the commitment and challenge of helping Fox clients better understand their Medicare options. As clients often say, “Now I finally understand how Medicare works.” Patty maintains her Pennsylvania License in Life, Health and Medicare and also takes numerous continuing education courses for this specialty annually. She holds a B.A. degree in Communications from Penn State as well as a background in nursing and teaching. She is considered a Front Runner by Aetna for her outstanding efforts in customer service. Patty has enjoyed being a part of the Corry community since 1989 when she married hometown resident Jim Sorenson. They went on to have five children and currently boast three grandchildren. Patty is very active in her church as a teacher and education team leader.
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Jason comes to Fox Family Insurance with a high level of experience in management and customer service. He spent 24 years in retail and is honored to help carry on the legacy his grandfather started, with Fox Insurance, back in 1966. As a licensed insurance agent, Jason’s primary focus will be assisting clients with their individual Medicare needs. He can also offer employer services by advising eligible employee’s switching from a group plan to Medicare. Jason serves at McLane Church in Edinboro, as a drummer, and has done so for the past 10 years. He has a wife, Carrie, 3 children, Taylor, Brittany, and Zachary, 2 grandchildren, Milo and Mia and a dog named Lincoln. Life is real good!
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Patrick Pelletier, CLTC has earned and maintained his Certification in Long Term Care insurance for over 15 years. Patrick began his insurance career when he started with Prudential in 2000, where he maintained an office in Oil City. He partnered with Williams Insurance Agency in 2008, a move that opened up his insurance portfolio as an independent agent. When Rossbacher Insurance acquired the Williams agency in 2020 Patrick stayed on in the Oil City office to continue serving clients with fixed annuity and life insurance needs as well as providing guidance to seniors as they transition to Social Security, retirement and Medicare.
His involvement in the community non-profit and charitable organizations include: Boy Scouts of America, Oil City Civic Center (Transit Building), Franklin Fraternal Federation, and Lake-Myrtle Lodge.
Patrick is an outdoor enthusiast who enjoys playing ice hockey, scuba diving, gardening, and riding his motorcycle around the Northern Pennsylvania countryside. Patrick and his wife love traveling the world at every opportunity but always look forward to coming home to Northwestern Pennsylvania.
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Harold began working at Fox Insurance in 1976 and immersed himself in the insurance field from that point on. He enjoyed working with his father who started the agency. Later, his sisters, Susan and then Beth joined them and it truly became a family business. Harold, Susan, and Beth formed a partnership in 1997, when their father retired. In 2012, Fox Family Insurance team combined forces with the Rossbacher Insurance team. He was affectionately referred to as "Big H," by his coworkers and he was a big force and competitor in his insurance work.
Harold had a big voice, a big laugh, and an even bigger heart. Everyone felt loved by Harold. He was often the first one to welcome others, and make them feel seen, known, and loved. He brought joy and life wherever he went with his booming voice, infectious laugh, and robust personality. When anyone was fraught with discouragement, fear, or confusion Harold always reminded them, "God has a plan." He believed this with all his heart, and fully surrendered his life to God’s plan. Even when that plan meant he would be leaving this world and going home to heaven in January of 2021.
No one was ready for Harold to go. He left a hole in this world that no one else can fill, because there is no one else quite like him. But the love Harold had did not come from him, but rather flowed out of deep love he found in his Savior, Jesus Christ.
Harold knew himself to be a sinful and broken man, who needed a Savior. But he also knew that, "For God so loved the world, that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him, shall not perish, but have eternal life." (John 3:16) In Jesus, Harold found forgiveness for every sin, and healing for all his brokenness. And he would want anyone reading this to know, that whoever you are, whatever you've done, "Jesus loves you." He would want you to know that Jesus died for you on the cross, with his arms open wide, to forgive all your sin, and heal all your brokenness, too. He would want you to experience Jesus' love and forgiveness the way he did, not just “someday” in heaven, but right now on earth.
Harold was deeply loved and although his absence is deeply felt, his legacy lives on through his sons, grandchildren, family, and countless others who were touched by his life. Though he is gone, we can still hear his loud, booming voice, assuring us that no matter what happens in this life, no matter how dark, or scary, or uncertain things may seem, "God has a plan."
The History of Fox Family Insurance
Family First
Fox Family Insurance has been a family run business committed to offering quality personal service since 1966. George Fox, Sr. started the company out of the living room of his home in Corry, PA. The agency has been successful over the years, soon outgrowing the family home, and requiring George to bring in three of his five children to work with him. The agency has always put customers first, desiring to work alongside clients to offer the best insurance plans to match their needs.
Dedicated to NW PA
Fox Insurance became dedicated to the communities in which it served in Northwestern PA, branching out into Ohio and New York. George retired in 1999, allowing Harold, Susan, and Beth to purchase the thriving agency.
George’s Legacy
George passed away in January of 2006, but the legacy he left lives on in his business, the lives of his family, and all who knew him.
Partners of Rossbacher
Insurance Group
In 2012, Fox Family partnered with Rossbacher Insurance Group to continue their family’s multi-generational history of service to the Corry community and surrounding areas.
Specializing in Medicare and
Life Insurance
2020 became a year of change for many businesses and Fox Family was no exception. With the unfortunate passing of Harold Fox, Fox Family transitioned to focus solely on Medicare and Life Insurance.
The Fox Family auto, home, and business customers are now serviced by Team Rossbacher agents. Fox opened a new Medicare office in the Corry Jamestown Credit Union building, offering clients a convenient location with handicap accessibility to serve the numerous clients who have trusted them with their Medicare insurance plans over the years. The Fox Family partnership with Rossbacher, allows the Fox Family team to also serve the Medicare needs in the Rossbacher office locations of North East, Oil City, and Cranberry, Pennsylvania.
One of the Family
The company still stands by its original slogan developed by George Fox, Sr. many years ago. “At Fox Family you’re not just a customer, you’re one of the family.”
Beth Fox-Dean earns Registered Social Security Analyst designation
Rossbacher Insurance Group is proud to announce the designation of RSSA (Registered Social Security Analyst) has been conferred upon Beth Fox-Dean, following her successful completion of a comprehensive and specialized training program.
Beth has demonstrated her professional competence through completing a five module training program and their corresponding examinations and successfully passing a competency final examination. The training program focuses on all major components of retirement planning including social security benefits and income, taxation, medical and insurance needs, and Medicare benefits.
Beth has specialized in Medicare insurance since joining Fox Family Insurance in 1991. While she is not a social security agent, this new designation will help her assist her clients by answering social security questions, especially related to their medical and insurance needs.