Leonard Wingrove
Jan 24, 2009
Leonard Wingrove, 83, of Washington, died Saturday, January 24, 2009, in Kade Nursing Home. He was born June 24, 1925, in Perryopolis, a son of David Haze and Dicie Wilks Wingrove. Mr. Wingrove worked for Layton Township on the road crew. He was Protestant. Surviving are a brother, Thurman Wingrove of Perryopolis; and a sister, Gladys Fisher, of Star Junction....
Dale Ealy
Jan 24, 2009
Dale Robert Ealy, Sr., 49, of Claysville, died Saturday, January 24, 2009, as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. He was born June 17, 1959, a son of Ruth I. Anderson of Washington and the late Floyd F. Ealy. Mr. Ealy worked as a laborer for Central Blood Bank. His wife, Connie Piatt Ealy, survives. Also surviving...
Dorothy Louise Baumgartner
Jan 23, 2009
Dorothy Louise Baumgartner, 82, of Washington, died Friday, January 23, 2009, in Consulate Health Care, North Strabane Township. She was born November 22, 1926, in Washington, a daughter of Elmont and Helen Wood Clark. Mrs. Baumgartner was a homemaker and member of Immaculate Conception Church. She enjoyed flowers, crossword puzzles, crocheting, playing cards and building and making furniture. Her children...
James Ashley Cordy
Jan 22, 2009
James Ashley Cordy, 88, of Washington, died Thursday, January 22, 2009, in Canonsburg General Hospital. He was born July 8, 1920, in Washington, a son of Thomas Ivor M. and Matilda Shanley Cordy. Mr. Cordy graduated from Washington High School and retired from Penn Mould where he had worked as a mould maker. During World War II, Mr. Cordy enlisted...
Mary Lou Crile
Jan 22, 2009
Mary Lou Crile, 63, of Claysville, died unexpectedly Thursday, January 22, 2009, in Washington Hospital. She was born February 3, 1945, a daughter of the late Raymond and Hazel Thomas Crile. Mrs. Crile was a graduate of Trinity High School. She worked at Washington Hospital for 17 years and then worked as a psychiatric technician at Centerville Clinic for 29...
Lydia Beatrice Harton
Jan 21, 2009
Lydia Beatrice Harton, 86, of Washington, died Wednesday, January 21, 2009, in Washington County Health Center, Chartiers Township, following a lengthy illness. She was born May 11, 1922, in Washington, a daughter of Alonzo and Garnett Greer Vankirk. Mrs. Harton was a homemaker and a member of the Moose, Slovak Club and Polish Club. In 1945, she married Clifford Lee...
Jonathan Michael Gillespie
Jan 21, 2009
Jonathan Michael Gillespie, Jr., one month old, died Wednesday, January 21, 2009. He was born December 20, 2008, in Washington, a son of Jonathan Michael Gillespie, Sr. and Angela Nicole Moschell, both of Washington. Surviving, in addition to his parents, are two half-sisters, Jasmine and Asia Gillespie; maternal grandparents, Rose Moschell and Vearney Moschell of Washington; paternal grandparents, Debbie Gillespie...
Margaret M. Kovatch
Jan 20, 2009
Margaret M. Kovatch, 79, of Canonsburg, formerly Meadowlands, died Tuesday, January 20, 2009, in Presbyterian Senior Care. She was born September 10, 1929, in Meadowlands, a daughter of Joseph and Mary Giovanninni. Mrs. Kovatch was a graduate of Chartiers Houston High School and a member of Miraculous Medal Catholic Church. She was a member of Christian Mothers Guild in Meadowlands,...
Betty Jane Cooper
Jan 16, 2009
Betty Jane Cooper, 79, of Washington, died Friday, January 16, 2009, in Donnell House, following a lengthy illness. She was born August 10, 1929, in the Bellevue section of Pittsburgh, and was raised by her grandmother, Anna Demko. Mrs. Cooper worked as a telephone operator and in catalog sales at Sears for 30 years. She also worked as a cashier...
Donald O. Seik
Jan 16, 2009
Donald O. Seik, 95, of Washington, formerly of Eighty-Four, died on Friday, January 16, 2009, in the Standish Personal Care Home. He was born on December 2, 1913, a son of Charles and Minnie Shaffer Seik. Mr. Seik was a member of the First Lutheran Church of Washington. He was a local truck driver for over 20 years. Mr. Seik...
Elizabeth Jane Dague
Jan 16, 2009
Elizabeth Jane Dague, 93, of Washington, died at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, January 16, 2009 at Humbert Lane Health Care, after a brief illness. She was born on August 12, 1915, a daughter of Charles A. and Elizabeth Bigler Fowler. Mrs. Dague was a member of Bethel Presbyterian Church. She was a 1933 graduate of Trinity High School. She had...
Margaret L. Roth
Jan 14, 2009
Margaret L. Roth, 88, formerly of Washington, died Wednesday, January 14, 2009,in Greenery Nursing and Skilled Rehabilitation Center, North Strabane Township. She was born November 5, 1920, in Cheat Haven, a daughter of Michael Jeffers Sr. and Margaret Rafter Jeffers. Mrs. Roth was a 1940 graduate of Trinity High School. For ten years, she worked as a sales associate at...
Marilyn Eileen Hamlin
Jan 14, 2009
Marilyn Eileen Hamlin, 58, of Washington, died Wednesday, January 14, 2009, in Donnell House. She was born May 14, 1950, in Pittsburgh, a daughter of William Dugan, of Washington, and the Leonara Matonak Dugan. Mrs. Hamlin was a 1971 graduate of St. Mary’s Hospital School of Nursing in Huntington, WV. She also attended Marshall University. Mrs. Hamlin was a registered...
Margaret Ann Paraska Gregg
Jan 13, 2009
Margaret Ann Paraska Gregg, 88, of Washington, died Tuesday, January 13, 2009, in Washington County Health Center, following a lengthy illness. She was born May 18, 1920, in Washington, a daughter of Frederick Paraska, Sr. and Mary Margaret Gregosky Paraska. Mrs. Gregg graduated from Trinity High School in 1938 and was a member of St. Hilary Roman Catholic Church. Mrs....
Mary A. Moore Kirschner
Jan 13, 2009
Mary A. Moore Kirschner, 75, of Washington, died at 2:10 p.m., Tuesday, January 13, 2009, in the Donnell House, following a one-year illness. She was born May 26, 1933, in Washington, a daughter of the late Walter and Pearl Elizabeth Wishart Moore. Mrs. Kirschner was a 1951 graduate of Washington High School and attended Penn Commercial for two years. She...
James Michael Yusko
Jan 11, 2009
James Michael Yusko, 62, of Claysville, died Sunday, January 11, 2009, in Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh. He was born August 23, 1946, in Washington, PA., a son of Joseph Anthony and Nellie Golubowsky Yusko. After graduating high school, Mr. Yusko joined the United States Navy, serving from September 9, 1964, until his honorable discharge on September 10, 1968. He served...
Dorothy R. Breedlove
Jan 11, 2009
Dorothy R. Breedlove, 94, of Washington, died Sunday, January 11, 2009, in Washington County Health Center. She was born November 24, 1914, in McConnellsburg, a daughter of John and Daisy Elvey Wible. Mrs. Breedlove was a member of First Baptist Church of Washington and the Washington Hospital Auxiliary. She loved to sew and play the piano. For ten years, she...
Wilbert Irving Hull
Jan 8, 2009
Wilbert Irving Hull, 78, of Washington, died Thursday, January 8, 2009, in Kindred Care, Oakdale. He was born August 28, 1930, in Waynesburg, a son of Earl W. and Mildred Hillberry Hull. Mr. Hull was a hot-end Moulder at Brockway for 34 years. He also had worked in security and as a driver at the Holiday Inn on Racetrack Road...
Barbara Pauline Mckibben Nicholas
Jan 8, 2009
Barbara Pauline “Babs” McKibben Nicholas, 73, of Washington, died Thursday, January 8, 2009, in Donnell House. She was a two-time survivor of breast cancer. She was born August 20, 1935, in Zanesville, Ohio, a daughter of the late Harry Kibe “Sam” Ullom and Agnes Pauline Nelson Ullom. Mrs. Nicholas attended Chartiers Schools. She was a homemaker but had worked as...
John Henry Schweinebraten
Jan 6, 2009
John Henry Schweinebraten, 53, of Washington, died unexpectedly, Tuesday, January 6, 2009, in the Washington Hospital. He was born June 3, 1956, in Washington, a son of Herbert and Violet Riser Schweinebraten. On March 27, 2002, he married Dolores Millikin, who survives. Also surviving are two daughters, April and Violet Schweinebraten; a step-son, Lee Millikin; a brother, Tom Schweinebraten, all...
