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Joyce Mae Thropp

Joyce Mae Thropp

Aug 8, 2013

Joyce Mae Thropp 70 of Sycamore died Thursday August 8, 2013 in UPMC Shadyside. She was born on August 22, 1942 a daughter of the late James and Regina Bricker Kern. She was a 1960 graduate of Trinity High School. Mrs. Thropp was a homemaker. She enjoyed watching and feeding her birds, mowing her lawn, and socializing at the Anawanna...

Mary Tallarico

Mary Tallarico

Aug 8, 2013

Mary Tallarico 90 of Washington formerly of Marianna died Thursday August 8, 2013 in the Donnell House, Washington. She was born in Bescoe on February 27, 1923 a daughter of Frank and Clara Greco Tallarico. She attended Wylie Elementary and Trinity area schools She was a homemaker. She was Roman Catholic and enjoyed crossword puzzles, shopping, reading, and watching her...

Sara Shrontz

Sara Shrontz

Jul 25, 2013

Sara A. Shrontz 91 of Washington died Thursday July 25, 2013 in Washington Hospital. She was born September 26 1921 in Washington County, a son of the late Charles and Ethel Bristor Moninger. She was a Trinity High School graduate. She was a lifetime member of Lone Pine Christian Church where she was a member of the choir for over...

Richard Kotulak

Richard Kotulak

Jul 17, 2013

Richard P. Kotulak 84 of Brandon, Fl formerly of Bentleyville died Wednesday July 17, 2013 in Brandon Regional Hospital, Florida. He was born in Bentleyville on September 15, 1928 a son of the late John and Anna D'Vorchak Kotulak. He was a 1946 graduate of Ellsworth High School. He then worked for Bethlehem Colliers Company. Mr. Kotulak graduated from Penn...

Robert Barr

Robert Barr

Jul 9, 2013

Robert Barr 87 of Marianna died Tuesday July 9, 2013 in Townview Health and Rehabilitation Center, Canonsburg. He was born on January 8, 1926 in Marianna, a son of the late Wray and Cecil Moore Barr. He was a graduate of West Beth High School. He then joined the United Sates Army Air Corps where he proudly served in World...

Paul Vargo

Paul Vargo

Jun 27, 2013

Paul Richard "Pauly" Vargo 68, of Washington died June 27, 2013 in the Washington Hospital with his son Jeffrey by his side holding his hand. He was born April 11, 1945, a son of the late Paul and Mildred Vargo of Marianna. The past three years he was in the Washington County Health Center where he received wonderful care by...

Albert Gallik

Albert Gallik

Jun 22, 2013

Albert Michael Gallik 84 of Marianna died Saturday June 22, 2013 in Strabane Woods Washington. He was born on September 11, 1928 in California, PA a son of John and Elizabeth Petrick Gallik. He was a 1947 graduate of East Pike Run Township High School. After High School he joined the United States Navy where he proudly served until his...

Joan Lee Stoskel Allen

Joan Lee Stoskel Allen

Jun 15, 2013

Joan was taken by the hand of Jesus and led to her heavenly home on June 15, 2013, surrounded by her children, after fighting a long and tiring battle with Alzheimer's disease. She was born October 26, 1931 in Marianna, Pennsylvania, the first born of Stella Marie Frameli and Peter Paul Stoskel. She lived most of her life in Marianna...

James Ingram

James Ingram

Jun 13, 2013

James L. Ingram 59 of Washington died June 13, 2013 in the Washington Hospital. He was born on May 30, 1954 a son of the late Roger and Eva Catherine McCartney Ingram. He worked as a security guard for Sentinel and formerly as a dietary aide at the Washington hospital. He is survived by three sons Thomas Ingram of Sandy,...

Carol Lindberg

Carol Lindberg

Jun 8, 2013

Carol Berry Lindberg 69 of Amity died Saturday June 8, 2013 in the Washington Hospital She was born in Washington on September 15, 1943 a daughter of John and Georgetta Berry. She was a 1961 graduate of Washington High School. She worked as a secretary most of her life until retiring from Clover Hill Foods in 2005. Carol was a...

Geraldine Hightower

Geraldine Hightower

May 28, 2013

Geraldine V. Hightower, 91 of Marianna, died Tuesday May 28, 2013 in Presbyterian Senior Care. She was born February 28, 1922, in Prudence WV the daughter of the late Goldie and Edward Higginbotham. Also deceased are her husband James Hightower, a son Robert, as well as her siblings, Rose, Mary, Edna, Aubrey, and Louis. Surviving are her children William "Sickle"...

Margaret Watkins

Margaret Watkins

May 26, 2013

Margaret Rose Watkins, 88, of Washington, PA, died Sunday, May 26, 2013 in Washington Hospital. She was born January 8, 1925, in Grafton West Virginia, the daughter of the late Richard G. and Josephine Bailey Watkins. Ms. Watkins was a 1945 graduate of Washington High School. She was a beautician and caregiver all her life. Ms. Watkins was a member...

Nellie Devore

Nellie Devore

May 7, 2013

Devoted Church and Grange Member Nellie Hart Devore 91 of Amwell Twp died Tuesday May 7, 2013 in her home. She was born on June 7, 1921 in Amwell Twp on the family farm, a daughter of the late George and Bessie Fetherlin Hart. She was a 1938 graduate of Trinity High School. She was a homemaker and farmer at...

Anna Grace Yarusinsky

Anna Grace Yarusinsky

May 6, 2013

Anna Grace Yarusinsky 86 of Humber Lane Personal Care Home formerly of Lone Pine died Monday May 6, 2013. She was born in Washington on June 17, 1926 a daughter of Lucido and Stella Lucirn Aloia. She was a 1944 graduate of Washington High School. She worked as a homemaker as well as at various other jobs throughout her life....

Jim Sheehan

Jim Sheehan

Apr 30, 2013

On Tuesday April 30, at the age of 58, Jim Sheehan fell into an eternal sleep with his wife Sabra's hands in his. Jim leaves behind his wife Sabra, and the children that were the joy of his life, Corey Sheehan, Katera Luzadder and her husband Chad, his granddaughter Ella James, and his son Cullen Sheehan. Jim is survived by...

Alyssa Long

Alyssa Long

Apr 6, 2013

Alyssa Nicole Long, 6 years old went to heaven to be with the Lord on April 6, 2013 at Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA following an accident. She was born on November 28, 2006 in Washington, the lovely daughter of Kenneth Dale Long and Christy Lynne Shipe Long. Alyssa was the light in any room she walked into. Her blue eyes...

John "Little John" Kovach

John "Little John" Kovach

Mar 27, 2013

John E. "Little John" Kovach 59 of Marianna died Wednesday March 27, 2013 in the Washington Hospital. He was born on July 19, 1953 in Brownsville, a son of the late John and Virginia Krebs Kovach. He was a graduate of Bethlehem Center High School. John worked construction. He was a social member of American Legion Post 744 of Marianna....

Anna Kempa

Anna Kempa

Mar 22, 2013

Anna Barto Kempa, 97, of Pittsburgh, PA died Friday, March 22, 2013 in the Wexford House Nursing Center, Wexford, PA. She was born September 19, 1915, in Slovan, PA, daughter of the late Paul and Lukeria Sederoff Barto. She was a long-time member of the St. Nicholas Old Believers Russian Church in Marianna, PA. Surviving are three grand-children and four...

William E Reese

William E Reese

Mar 20, 2013

William E. Reese 82 of Washington died Wednesday March 20, 2013 in Cranberry Place, Cranberry. He was born in Cambria County, on June 10, 1930 a son of the late Stanley G. and Caroline Servis Reese. He was a 1956 graduate of Penn State University. He served in the United States Army in Korea with the 31st infantry 3rd battalion...

Lucille Redd

Lucille Redd

Mar 15, 2013

Lucille Redd, 61, of Washington, passed away on Friday, March 15, 2013 at the Washington County Health Center. Born August 25, 1951 to John H. and the late Faye R. Redd, Lucille was a lifelong resident of Redd Run Road. She was raised on a dairy farm, the second of five children: Linda Joyce (Higgins) of Washington, Pa., John Douglas,...

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