Theodore S. Spara
Feb 7, 2013
Theodore S. Spara, 90, of Canonsburg, died Thursday, February 7, 2013, in Golden Living Center, Canonsburg. He was born July 15, 1922, in Washington, a son of Jacob and Josephine Olszaniczka Spara. Mr. Spara was a 1942 graduate of Trinity High School, where he excelled in football and track. After high school he attended Findlay College in Ohio for one...
Dora M. Molinaro
Feb 7, 2013
Dora M. Molinaro, 82, of Washington, died February 7, 2013, in her residence. She had been in declining health for several years. Mrs. Molinaro was born April 24, 1930, in Washington, a daughter of Donald and Myrl Hillberry Iams. She was a homemaker. Surviving are her husband, Pete Molinaro; two sons, Fred Evans Jr. and Bruce (Kathy) Evans; two daughters,...
Billie Gruber Bayer
Feb 7, 2013
Billie Gruber Bayer, 79, of McMurray, died February 7, 2013, in Manor Care. She was born August 5, 1933, in Washington, a daughter of William John Gruber and Thelma Rose Patterson Gruber. Outgoing with a quick smile, she was a friend to everyone she met. Mrs. Bayer was a devout and prayerful mother of seven, Registered Nurse and a life-long...
James W. Patterson
Feb 6, 2013
James Wells Patterson, 83, of Washington, died February 6, 2013, in Donnell House. He was born February 5, 1930, in Nineveh, a son of Jacob and Margaret Wells Patterson. Mr. Patterson was a graduate of Trinity High School and worked as a truck driver for Coen Oil Company for 38 years. He was a Korean War veteran, serving in the...
Helen M. Armstrong
Feb 6, 2013
Helen Mae Armstrong, 89, of Washington, died February 6, 2013, in Consulate Health Care, North Strabane Township. She was born September 26, 1923, in Maryland, a daughter of Roy and Thresa Westfall Kirkland. Mrs. Armstrong was a homemaker and waitress. She was Presbyterian. Surviving are a son, Paul Dean Merryman; a daughter, Sharon Kay Merryman Armstrong (Charles); a stepson, Charles...
Bertha Jean Taylor
Feb 5, 2013
Bertha Jean Hallam Taylor, 86, of Washington, died Tuesday, February 5, 2013, in Southmont of Presbyterian Senior Care. She was born February 27, 1926, a daughter of Wilbur and Lena Hatfield Hallam. A homemaker, Mrs. Taylor worked at Brockway Glass for a time and sold Avon for 25 years. On April 30. 1948, she married John Henry Taylor Jr., who...
Thomas Earl Kelley, Sr.
Feb 4, 2013
Thomas Earl Kelley, Sr., 91, of Washington, died February 4, 2013, in his residence. He was born April 21, 1921, in Buffalo Township, a son of James and Mabel Roupe Kelley. A World War II veteran, Mr. Kelley served in the Army Air Forces from August 12, 1942, until his honorable discharge on December 18, 1945, as a Private First...
Theodore Ankrom
Feb 4, 2013
Theodore Ankrom, 94, of Eighty Four, passed into the presence of the Lord, Monday, February 4, 2013. He was born January 24, 1919, in Lafferty Hill, Pittsburgh, a son of the late James and Rachel Grable Ankrom. Mr. Ankrom served in the Navy during World War II as a gunner aboard the USS Mariposa. His commanding officer and long-time friend...
Elsie Johnson
Feb 4, 2013
Elsie Margaret Smiley Newman Johnson, 87, of Washington, died February 4, 2013, in the Washington Hospital. She was born November 2, 1925, in Washington, a daughter of William Addison Smiley and Mary Imhoff Smiley. A graduate of Trinity High School, Mrs. Johnson was a homemaker and farmer, and had once worked at Bobbi Brooks, Presbyterian Home and the PX Supermarket....
Diana Knode
Feb 3, 2013
Diana Knode, 72, of Washington, died February 3, 2013, in Presbyterian Senior Care. She was born August 13, 1940, in Banbury, England. Ms. Knode worked as a press operator for area dry cleaners. She had been involved in training quarter horses since she was young. Ms. Knode enjoyed knitting, crocheting and sewing. Surviving are a son, Vance Knode (Mary) of...
Kandace Renea Darnley
Feb 3, 2013
Kandace Renea Darnley, 26, of Washington, died unexpectedly, February 3, 2013, in Washington Hospital. She was born October 21, 1986, in Norfolk, Virginia, a daughter of Frederick Henry Darnley, Jr., and Jody Lynn Bryner Darnley, of Washington. Ms. Darnley attended Wolfdale and Trinity North Elementary Schools, where she was a cheerleader. In high school, she took EMT training at Vo-Tech,...
Charles W. Hamilton
Feb 2, 2013
Charles William Hamilton, 83, of Washington, died Saturday, February 2, 2013, in Golden Living Center, Canonsburg. He was born September 3, 1929, in Washington, a son of August P. Hamilton and Anna Moore Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton served in the Army. For 28 years, he was owner-operator of Standard Forest Products in Pancake. Mr. Hamilton enjoyed camping in RV’s in the...
Evelyn A. Knestrick
Feb 2, 2013
Evelyn Anna “Bill” Knestrick, 100, of Washington, died Saturday, February 2, 2013, in Humbert Lane Skilled Nursing. She was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, a daughter of Joseph H. McClelland and Mary Jane Peterson McClelland. Mrs. Knestrick worked as a glasscutter at Duncan Miller for many years. She enjoyed going to garage sales and flea markets. In 1942, she married...
Joanne E. Gorby
Feb 1, 2013
Joanne Ellen Watt Gorby, 79, of Washington, formerly of Greene County, died peacefully in her home, Friday, February 1, 2013, surrounded by her family. She was born in Petersburg, Illinois, on October 15, 1933, a daughter of the late William and Josephine Rush Watt of Phoenix, Arizona. Mrs. Gorby graduated from Phoenix Union High School in 1950. She worked for...
Adam Thomas Molinaro
Feb 1, 2013
Adam Thomas Molinaro, 38, of Washington, died on Friday, February 1, 2013, in UPMC – Presbyterian Hospital, following a month-long illness. He was born on February 9, 1974, in Washington, a son of Thomas William and Nancy Lawrence Molinaro. A 1992 graduate of Trinity High School, he also graduated from Virginia Tech in 1996. Mr. Molinaro worked as a teacher...
Betty Lois Wilson
Feb 1, 2013
Betty Lois Wilson, 88, of Washington, died February 1, 2013, in Presbyterian Senior Care. She was born March 31, 1924, in Washington, the only child of Earl H. Peterson and Vivian McNeely Peterson. Mrs. Wilson attended the former Bellevue Grade School in North Franklin Township and graduated from Trinity High School with the class of 1941. She also graduated from...
Vera Jean Isabel Ferralli Piacenza
Jan 29, 2013
Vera Jean Isabel Ferralli Piacenza, 97, of Washington, died Tuesday, January 29, 2013, in her home. She was born October 26, 1915, in Bruceton, a daughter of John and Mary Chiarelli Ferralli. Mrs. Piacenza was a member of Immaculate Conception Church, in Washington, and a former member of St. Hilary Church. She was a 1934 graduate of Trinity High School...
Helen N. Potts
Jan 29, 2013
Entombment of Helen N. Potts, 93, of Lawton, Oklahoma will be 2:30 p.m., Monday February 4, 2013, in Washington Cemetery, Washington. Mrs. Potts passed away on January 29, 2013 in Lawton, Oklahoma. Helen was born on April 17, 1919, in Washington County, Pennsylvania to Harold B. and Dora (Crouse) Fonner. She graduated from high school. Helen worked Civil Service at...
William Kenneth Mcmasters
Jan 28, 2013
William Kenneth “Pappy” McMasters, 67, of Washington, died Monday, January 28, 2013, in the Washington Hospital. He was born December 4, 1945, in Washington, a son of the late Robert F. McMasters, Sr., and Lucretia V. Bird McMasters. Mr. McMasters owned Bill’s TV Repair at one time, and also Bill’s Auto Repair for 12 years. An avid car enthusiast, he...
John Doyle Stockdale
Jan 28, 2013
John Doyle Stockdale, 89, of Prosperity, died Monday, January 28, 2013, in Presbyterian Senior Care, Washington. He was born November 3, 1923, in Prosperity, a son of the late Hugh Quitman Stockdale and Jessie May Bryner Stockdale. Mr. Stockdale graduated from Morris Township High School in 1942. A World War II veteran of the Army, he served from July 17,...
