Obituaries
Thomas J. Simala
Jul 4, 2018
Thomas J. Simala 84 of Stockdale, died Wednesday July 4, 2018 at Jefferson Hospital. Born in Stockdale on February 8, 1934 a son of Karol and Mary Palenta Simala. Thomas was retired from the former Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Allenport Plant. He was a lifetime member of Stockdale Volunteer Fire Dept #17., loved the outdoors and the Pittsburgh sports teams. Thomas enjoyed...
Jane Amalong Shrum
Jun 5, 2018
Jane Amalong Shrum, also known as Jane Weitzel, 78, of Roscoe, died Tuesday June 5, 2018, at her home. Born Sept. 27, 1939, in Rochester, N.Y., she was a daughter of Raymond Charles and Pearl Isabel Silvernail Ward. Jane was a member of the Roscoe United Methodist Church , its choir and was a Sunday school teacher. She was also...
Anna Pierard
May 30, 2018
Anna Pierard 104 of Carroll Twp., died Wednesday May 30, 2018 at her home. Born in Roscoe on February 1, 1914 a daughter of Pete and Mary Kuchan Santo. Anna was a member of Holy Ghost Byzantine Church Charleroi.
She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law Sandra L. and Frank G. Lucostic of Venetia, a sister Lorraine Santo...
Michael P. Santo
May 26, 2018
Michael P. Santo 75 of Coal Center, died Saturday May 26, 2018. Born in N. Charleroi on February 13, 1943 a son of Mike and Mary Skvarek Santo. Michael was an United States Air Force veteran, having served during the Vietnam War. He was retired from the former Super Value in Belle Vernon. Surviving are his wife; Nikki Conaway Santo,...
Darla Scrip
May 18, 2018
Darla Scrip 79 of Roscoe, died Friday May 18, 2018 at Magee Women's Hospital. Born in Coal Center on February 14, 1939, a daughter of Emmor and Josephine Qualk Ames. She was Catholic by faith. A member of the Ladies Auxillary of the Roscoe American Legion Post #801. Darla is survived by her husband William C. Scrip, a son William...
Jason Michael Hartley
May 18, 2018
Jason Michael Hartley 41 of Coal Center, died Friday May 18, 2018 at Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh. Born in N. Charleroi on March 4, 1977 a son of Charles and Mary Yankulics Hartley of Coal Center. Jason is also survived by his paternal grandmother Julia Hartley; 4 paternal uncles and aunts, William and Gloria Hartley, Fred and Bernadine Hartley, Eddie...
Wallace Anthony Grevna
May 11, 2018
Private funeral services were held this morning Wednesday May 26, 2018 for Wallace Anthony Grevna of Elco. Wallace died Friday May 11, 2018 at his home. He was 87. Born in Elco on April 2, 1931 a son of Francis and Ellen Grevna. Wallace was retired from the former Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Monessen. He was a United States Army veteran having...
Bradley Maxon
Apr 30, 2018
Bradley Maxon 61 of Belle Vernon, died Monday April 30, 2018 at his home. Born in Monongahela on June 8, 1956 a son of the late Donald and Audrey Copenhaver Maxon Sr.. Bradley was Methodist by faith. He was employed for 39 years by Monongahela Valley Hospital as a custodian. Bradley is survived by a brother and sister-in-law; Donald and...
William Troy Ryan
Apr 15, 2018
William Troy Ryan 78 of Roscoe, died Sunday April 15, 2018 at Premier Health Center, Washington. He was born on December 26, 1940 in South Charleston, WV, a son of Carl Henry and Winona Walker Ryan. Bill was retired from WGT Construction in Bellaire, Ohio and served in the US Navy during peacetime. He was a member of the Moose...
Dennis Foulks
Apr 14, 2018
Dennis Foulks 75 of Monessen died Saturday April 14, 2018 at UPMC Presbyterian. Born December 2, 1942 in N. Charleroi, a son of Robert and Susan Kossar Foulks. Dennis worked at several positions at Walmart in Belle Vernon. He was a United States Air Force veteran. Dennis is survived by his wife Judith Kaschok Foulks, nephews and nieces Chris and...
Mary Moxine Roy
Apr 13, 2018
Mary Moxine Roy 86 of Elco died Friday April 13, 2018 at Monongahela Valley Hospital. She was born January 2, 1932 in Fredricktown, a daughter of Elias and Evelyn Zanolli Morgan. Moxine was the Post Master for Elco and retired after 31 years of service. She was a member of the Roscoe United Methodist Church, the Ladies Auxillary of the...
Julia Granus
Apr 13, 2018
Julia Granus 84 of Fallowfield Twp. died Friday April 13, 2018 at Monongahela Valley Hospital. Born July 15, 1933 in N. Charleroi, a daughter of Timoftey and Katherine Scheponik. Julia was a member of Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church, Charleroi and a member of the church's choir. She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law Mark and Debra Granus of...
Mary Anne Ermlick
Feb 24, 2018
Mary Anne Ermlick, 89, of Roscoe, died Saturday, February 24, 2018, at Canterberry Hospice, Lawrenceville. Born in Roscoe on February 8, 1929, the daughter of Glenn Sr. and Mary Cairns. She was a member of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, Roscoe. Mary Anne was a graduate from California University. She retired from Finleyville Middle School where she taught English. She was...
Martha Bertovich
Feb 7, 2018
Martha Bertovich 87 formerly of Bentleyville and Jefferson Hills, died Wednesday February 7, 2018 at Green Hills Village, State College. Born in Lock 4 on January 27, 1931, a daughter of Nicholas and Helen Chupasko. Martha was retired from UPMC St. Margaret's Hospital where she was the payroll manager.
She will be so dearly missed by her daughter Bonnie...
Ruth Ann Prentice
Jan 24, 2018
Ruth Ann Staley Prentice, 69 of Charleroi, died Wednesday January 24, 2018 at Monongahela Valley Hospital after battling a lengthy illness. Ruth was born on May 19, 1948 in Daisytown a daughter of Edward Staley and Margaret Malinsky Staley Soltis. She loved to dance, fish and hunt. Ruth was well known for her sense of humor and was quite the...
Robert Paholsky
Jan 17, 2018
Robert Paholsky 73 of California, died Wednesday January 17, 2018 at his home. Born in N. Charleroi on June 29, 1944, a son of Stanley and Mary Kostelak Paholsky. Mr. Paholsky was Catholic by faith. He was a Vietnam War veteran having served as an Airman with the United States Air Force. He also was a graduate of the USAF...
Terry Bandini
Jan 12, 2018
Terry Bandini 80 of Daisytown, died Friday January 12, 2018 at his home. Born in Pricedale on January 7, 1938, a son of Reno and Gertrude Bandini. Terry was an United States Army veteran having served during the Korean War. He was retired from the former Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel, Allenport Plant. Surviving are 2 sons Ryan and Jason Bandini both of...
Charles Dunkerton
Jan 9, 2018
Charles Dunkerton, 99, of Fallowfield Twp., died Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, at Lawson Nursing Home, Jefferson Hills. He was born in Charleroi on Sept. 4, 1918, son of Harry and Clara Schew Dunkerton. Charles was a retired pipe fitter for Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Monessen plant. He was a World War II U.S. Navy veteran and was a member of St. Paul’s...
Glenn Lee Todd
Jan 5, 2018
Glenn Lee Todd 75 formerly of Allenport died Friday January 5, 2018 at St. Anthony’s Nursing Home & Rehabilitation Center, Rock Island, IL. He was born on March 23, 1942 in N. Charleroi, a son of Ralph and Grace Biles Todd. Glenn was a Vietnam War veteran having served with the United States Navy. He retired from Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel, Allenport...
Iris Boyles
Dec 27, 2017
Iris Boyles 73 of Stockdale, died Wednesday December 27, 2017 at Dunlevy Manor. Born in Buchannon, West Virginia on March 28, 1944, a daughter of Frank and Evy Dean Reed. Iris was a life member of the Sutersville Moose Chapter 1032. She was retired from the State of Pennsylvania where she worked as a social worker for many years. On...
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