Mary Belle Chadwick
Jul 25, 2008
Mary Belle Chadwick, 65, of South Franklin Township, died Friday, July 25, 2008, in Donnell House, following a seven-month illness. She was born December 8, 1942, in McMechen, West Virginia, a daughter of the late James and Helen V. Grall Ealy. Mrs. Chadwick graduated from Trinity High School in 1960. For 25 years, she worked at Washington Area Teachers Credit...
Randy Pausch
Jul 25, 2008
This guest book will be provided to the Pausch family. 'Last Lecture' professor, Randy Pausch, dies at 47 By Craig Wilson, USA TODAY Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor who became a YouTube phenomenon with his "Last Lecture," died Friday of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 47. He died at his home in southern Virginia. Pausch told USA TODAY...
Robert Louis Meeker, Sr.
Jul 25, 2008
Robert Louis Meeker, Sr., 77, of Amity, died Friday, July 25, 2008, in Jeannette Hospital. He was born March 10, 1931, in Martins Ferry, Ohio, a son of James Mitchell and Amanda Lenora Junkins Meeker. Mr. Meeker was a diesel mechanic at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel for 35 years. He was a member of Upper Ten Mile Presbyterian Church in Prosperity. Mr....
Janet E. Grimm
Jul 24, 2008
Janet E. Grimm, 77, of Washington, died Thursday, July 24, 2008, in her home following a lengthy illness. She was born in Washington on June 23, 1931, a daughter of Charles Dorsey and Emma Hughes Morris. She had attended Washington Schools and worked for more than twenty years at the Brownson House through the Easter Seals Society. Mrs. Grimm was...
Kenneth Elwood Miles
Jul 23, 2008
Kenneth Elwood Miles, 60, of Claysville, died Wednesday, July 23, 2008, in Donnell House, following a lengthy illness. He was born May 5, 1948, in Washington, a son of Alice Marie McMasters DePaoli of Washington and the late Elwood Kenneth Miles. Mr. Miles was a graduate of Trinity High School. He was a Marine Corps. Veteran, having served in Vietnam...
Donald Edward Cundall
Jul 20, 2008
WWII Navy vet was avid golfer. Donald Edward Cundall, 88, of South Minster, died at 1 p.m. Sunday, July 20, 2008, in UPMC-Presbyterian hospital, Pittsburgh. He had been in declining health for the past five years. He was born April 1, 1920, in Washington, the eldest son of Edward Mandille and Clara Tiny Spence Cundall. Mr. Cundall was a veteran...
Samuel Thompson Dille
Jul 20, 2008
Samuel T. Dille, 88, of Washington, died Sunday, July 20, 2008, following a four-year illness.. He was born June 29, 1920, in Prosperity, a son of Harley P. and Mildred Mae Cole Dille. Mr. Dille was a 1939 graduate of Morris Township High School. During World War II and the Korean Conflict, he served in the United States Air Force...
Frank M. Schaffold
Jul 17, 2008
Frank M. Schaffold, 58, of Washington, died Thursday, July 17, 2008 in his residence. He was born December 12, 1949, in Pittsburgh, a son of the late William G. and Patricia M. Williams Schaffold. Mr. Schaffold was a graduate of Langley High School. He served in the United States Army from January 15, 1968 until his honorable discharge as a...
Norman Joseph Megyesy
Jul 15, 2008
Norman Joseph Megyesy, 79, of Washington, died Tuesday, July 15, 2008, in his home, following a two-year illness He was born January 14, 1929, in Washington, a son of John and Ida Brown Megyesy. In 1947, he graduated from Trinity High School and was a member of St. Hilary Roman Catholic Church. On April 12, 1951 he entered the U.S....
Cora M. Miller
Jul 14, 2008
50-year dairy farmer. Trinity Grad Class of 1944 Cora M. Miller, 81, of Washington, died Monday, July 14, 2008, in her home. She was born January 20, 1927, in Somerset Township, Washington County, a daughter of John Everett and Dessie Della Garrett Vester. She was a graduate of Trinity High School in 1944 and a member of North Buffalo United...
Lloyd Allen Ross
Jul 13, 2008
Lloyd Allen Ross, 70, of Waynesburg, died Sunday, July 13, 2008, after a lengthy illness. He was born August 5, 1937, in Marianna, a son of William E. and Margaret Swihart Ross. Mr. Ross was a laborer for the Franklin Township Road Department. He enjoyed playing cards, farming and buying and selling at auctions. Mr. Ross was Methodist. Surviving are...
William A. Craig
Jul 8, 2008
William A. “Bill” Craig, 85, died Tuesday, July 8, 2008, in his son and daughter-in-law’s home in Unionville, Tennessee. He had been in failing health for the last several years. He was born November 5, 1922, in Wolfdale, a son of Melvin L. and Iva Canan Craig. Mr. Craig graduated from Trinity High School in 1940 and was employed for...
Alice V. Mitchell
Jul 8, 2008
Alice Victoria Mitchell, 79, of Washington, died Tuesday, July 8, 2008, in The Washington Hospital, following a lengthy illness. She was born November 2, 1928, in Matewan, West Virginia, a daughter of Marritt and Lydia Belle Payne Cook. Mrs. Mitchell was a homemaker and member of Trinity Bible Fellowship. On December 26, 1942, she married John Mitchell, who died December...
Merlin Ashmore
Jul 8, 2008
Merlin Ashmore, 82, of Washington, died Tuesday, July 8, 2008, in The Washington Hospital following a lengthy illness. He was born September 25, 1925, in Buffalo Township, a son of Thomas A. and Anne B. Woodward Ashmore. Mr. Ashmore was an honors graduate of Trinity High School and had attended the University of Chicago. During World War II, he served...
Andrew Kotora
Jul 7, 2008
Andrew Kotora, 87, of Washington, died Monday, July 7, 2008, in his home. He was born October 5, 1920, in Van Voorhis, a son of Michael and Barbara Matay Kotora, and grew up in Monessen with two brothers and three sisters. Mr. Kotora was a graduate of Washington and Jefferson College. During World War II, he served in the Army...
George Raymond Coffey
Jul 6, 2008
George Raymond Coffey, 81, of Washington, died Sunday, July 6, 2008, in Washington County Health Center. He had been ill since April 2007. He was born July 1, 1927, in Washington, a son of George Clark Coffey and Elsie Marie Wilson Coffey. When young, Mr. Coffey resided at Coffey’s Crossing. He was a 1946 graduate of Washington High School and...
W. Louise Gray
Jul 5, 2008
W. Louise Gray, 77, of Washington, died Saturday, July 5, 2008, in her home with her family members by her side. She was born in Pittsburgh on January 12, 1931, a daughter of Lester A. and Lenore Elizabeth Weidelt Myers. On November 27, 1952, which was Thanksgiving, she married Eugene L. (Beanie) Gray. Thanksgiving Day marriage has been a long...
Margaret Doman Byers
Jul 5, 2008
Margaret Doman Byers, 93, of Washington, died Saturday, July 5, 2008, in her residence. She was born February 13, 1915, in Washington County, a daughter of William and Anna Blayney Eckles. After the death of her parents when she was twelve years old, she and her twin George were raised by Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Atkinson in Ohio County,...
Maxine Lucile Johns
Jul 3, 2008
Maxine Lucile Johns, 83, of Washington, died Thursday, July 3, 2008. She was born February 7, 1925, in Kunhtown, a daughter of Carson Leroy and Ida P. Wise Stewart. Mrs. Johns worked as a clerk at Wal-Mart for 15 years. She was a member of Immaculate Conception Church and enjoyed playing the piano and sewing. On October 4, 1951, she...
Sophia Pauline Junko
Jul 3, 2008
Sophia Pauline Junko, 92, of Washington, died Thursday, July 3, 2008, in Washington County Health Center. She had been in declining health for the last three years. Mrs. Junko was born December 19, 1915, in Collinsville, Oklahoma, a daughter of Samuel and Pauline Burcyk Chmiel. She worked at Union Camp as a machine operator for thirty years. Mrs. Junko was...
