Obituaries
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...
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 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...
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...
Justin A. Geletei
Dec 26, 2017
Justin A. Geletei 35 of Pittsburgh died Tuesday December 26, 2017at his home. Born June 27, 1982 in Uniontown a son of the late David and Doris Brown Geletei. Justin was a member of the Sons of the American Legion Post 940 Brownsville and worked in the Pittsburgh area as a chef. He loved attending his nephew's football games, enjoyed...
Mellis Heck
Nov 14, 2017
Mellis Marie Heck 90 of Stockdale, died Tuesday November 14, 2017 at her home. Born January 26, 1927 in Uniontown, a daughter of Ewing and Helen Sickles Fitzsimmons. On August 22,1948 Mellis married John W. Heck of Stockdale. They were married happily for 69 years. She enjoyed canning, planting zenias and spending time with her husband and family.
Besides...
Mary Edythe Tukesbrey
Nov 3, 2017
Mary Edythe Tukesbrey 86 of Stockdale, died Friday November 3, 2017 at her home. Born September 16, 1931 in Wheeling, WVa, a daughter of Kennard and Edythe Fling Gillespie. Mary was a member of the Roscoe United Methodist Church and the Ladies Auxillary of the Roscoe American Legion Post #801. On January 3, 1950 she married Clarence Donald Tukesbrey who...
Samuel J. Rice
Nov 1, 2017
Samuel J.Rice Jr., 97, formerly of Brownsville, died Thursday November 2, 2017 at Presbyterian Senior Care Southmont. He was born on March 23, 1920 in Crow's Nest, Pa, a son of Samuel J. and Bridgette Ziomek Rice Sr..He was a member of Mary, Mother of the Church Charleroi and the Roscoe American Legion Post # 801. Sam was a WWII...
Anna S. Kipp
Oct 25, 2017
Anna S. Kipp, 102, formerly of Brownsville died Wednesday October 25, 2017 at Monongahela Valley Hospital. Born January 22, 1915 in Roscoe, a daughter of Tobias and Anna Schray Kipp. In 1981 Anna retired after working 31 years for Guttman Oil. She was a member of the Roscoe Presbyterian Church, the American Legion Post #801 Ladies Auxillary, and the Ladies...
Lorraine V. Brown
Aug 24, 2017
Lorraine V. Brown, 87, of Charleroi, died Thursday, August 24, 2017, at Hempfield Manor, Greensburg. Born in Charleroi on October 26,1929, a daughter of the late John and Stephanie Laskoski Zelenski. She was a member of Mary Mother of the Church Parish and the National Slovak Society. Lorraine worked as a Clerk at the Belle Vernon Kmart and was a...
Thomas P. Anielewski
Aug 22, 2017
Thomas P. Anielewski 62 of Elco died Tuesday August 22, 2017 after a battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia at UPMC Shadyside. Born in N. Charleroi on January 15, 1955, he was the son of Henry T. and Stella Chemlewski Anielewski. Mr. Anielewski was the owner of Tom's Garage Doors in Elco. He was a member of St. Katherine Drexel Parish,...
