Elbin Jordan Farabee
Apr 5, 2004
Western Area vo-tech school vocational guidance counselor Elbin Jordan Farabee, 74, of Washington, died at 6:20 a.m. Monday, April 5, 2004, in Donnell House, Washington. He was born February 24, 1930, in East Finley Township, a son of Benjamin Franklin and Elsie Cornelia Smith Farabee. Mr. Farabee was a 1948 graduate of Claysville High School and a graduate of Penn...
Geneva June Yater
Apr 4, 2004
Member of Calvary Temple Church Geneva June Yater, 73, of Washington, died at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, April 4, 2004, in her home. She was born October 7, 1930, in Washington, a daughter of Howard Wrenwick and Gertrude Allen. Mrs. Yater was a member of Calvary Temple Church and was formerly employed at River Raisen. She enjoyed her grandchildren. On August...
Richard M. Carney
Apr 4, 2004
Richard M. “ Dickey “ Carney, 44, of Washington, died on Sunday, April 4, 2004. He was born in Steubenville, Ohio, on August 22, 1959, a son of the late Richard F. Carney and Betty Mae Heisler Carney of Washington. Mr. Carney had attended Washington High School and worked as a roofer. In the past, he spent several years working...
Steve John Olesky
Apr 1, 2004
In Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame Steve John Olesky, 90, of Washington, died at 8:05 a.m. Thursday, April 1, 2004, in Washington County Health Center, Washington, following a six-week illness. He was born September 6, 1913, in Novy Saoz, Poland, a son of Stanley and Katherine Klimek Olesky. Mr. Olesky was a member of Immaculate Conception Church in Washington and...
A. Kenneth Wilson
Mar 29, 2004
Decorated Navy veteran was 1939 Trinity graduate A. Kenneth Wilson, 82, of Washington, died unexpectedly Monday, March 29, 2004, in Washington Hospital. He was born March 7, 1922, in Eighty Four, a son of William G. and Edna Crawford Wilson. Mr. Wilson was a member of Third United Presbyterian Church. He worked as a sales manager at Nuclear Machine Shop...
Leona Madge Loughman
Mar 29, 2004
Leona Madge Loughman,75, formerly of South Franklin Township, died Monday, March 29, 2004 in the Washington County Health Center. She had been ill for about a month. She was born in Bitner on January 7, 1927, a daughter of Harry and Edna Nicklow Fosbrink. Mrs. Loughman graduated from Trinity High School as well as Penn Commercial. She worked for more...
Weldon Louis Hall
Mar 28, 2004
Weldon Louis Hall, 81, of Washington, died Sunday, March 28, 2004, in the Washington Hospital following a lingering illness. He was born in Republic, on October 23, 1922, a son of John and Ella Hall. Mr. Hall was Protestant. He served with the United States Army in Germany during WW II having received the WW II Victory Medal and the...
Lucy Lydia Aloia
Mar 28, 2004
Lucy Lydia Aloia, 84, of Bridgeville, formerly of Washington, died Sunday, March 28, 2004 in Country Meadows Nursing Home following a lengthy illness. She was born in Penowa on July 18, 1919, a daughter of Robert and RoseLee Vandel Bennett. Mrs. Aloia had attended Turney School in Penowa, was a graduate of Penn Commercial Business School, and had worked more...
Blanche Mansfield Baldwin
Mar 25, 2004
Blanche Mansfield Baldwin, 86, of Washington, died Thursday, March 25, 2004, in Donnell House, Washington. She was born September 15, 1917, in Houston, a daughter of William M. and Janet Brown Mansfield. Mrs. Baldwin was a homemaker and attended Calvary Baptist Church and Broad Street Baptist Church. She enjoyed music, reading and shopping. On November 12, 1939, she married Marion...
Thelma Genevieve Gorby
Mar 25, 2004
Thelma Genevieve Gorby, 90, formerly of Washington, died on Thursday, March 25, 2004 in Beverly Health Care, Waynesburg, following a short illness. She was born in Washington on December 11, 1913, a daughter of Charles and Alice Viola Coffield. She worked for many years as a Quality Control Inspector and Packer at Hazel Atlas Glass, Continental Can Corporation, and Brockway...
Erla Jean Hill
Mar 24, 2004
Member of Atlasburg Church of the Nazarene Erla Jean Hill, 66, of Hickory, died Wednesday, March 24, 2004, in her home, following a one-month illness. She was born November 26, 1937, in Langeloth, a daughter of Bruce and Nannie Drew Bonner. Mrs. Hill was a 1955 graduate of Union High School. She had resided in Hickory since 1966. Mrs. Hill...
Helen Marie Thomas
Mar 23, 2004
Retired Wal-Mart greeter Helen Marie Thomas, 66, of Washington, died unexpectedly Tuesday, March 23, 2004, at home. She was born May 30, 1937, in Washington, a daughter of Albert L. and Emma Scott Thomas. She attended Eighth Ward Elementary School in Washington's West End and graduated from Washington High School in 1955. She enjoyed her 10-year job as greeter at...
Helen Elizabeth Mckeag
Mar 22, 2004
Helen Elizabeth McKeag, 89, of Washington, died Monday, March 22, 2004 at the Washington Hospital. She was born on January 6, 1915, a daughter of John and Estelle Stevenson Bonner. Mrs. McKeag was a member of the Grove Presbyterian Church. She worked for 5 years as a sales clerk at W.T. Grant and for 5 years at Pence’s Hallmark Card...
Helen Henderson
Mar 19, 2004
Helen Henderson, 92, of Washington, died Friday, March 19, 2004 in the Presbyterian Medical Center, Washington, following a brief illness. She was born on February 25, 1912 in Washington, a daughter of George Franklin and Emma Jane Charlton Morrow. She was a member of the Avery United Methodist Church. Mrs. Henderson was retired having worked retail at both Marshall Dry...
Audrey Colon
Mar 19, 2004
Audrey M. Colon, 72, of Washington, died on Friday, March 19, 2004 in the Donnell House following a 2 ½ year illness. She was born on February 22, 1932, in Richeyville, a daughter of Andy and Dorothy Mains Sustrick, Jr. Mrs. Colon was a graduate of Centerville High School, California University, The Washington Hospital School of Nursing having become a...
Wayne Floyd Tanner
Mar 16, 2004
U.S. Army veteran was mechanic Wayne Floyd Tanner, 67, of Washington, died Tuesday, March 16, 2004, in Presbyterian Medical Center, Washington. He was born August 11, 1936, in Washington, a son of Oral S. and Eileen Martin Tanner. He attended East Washington School. Mr. Tanner served in the U.S. Army in Germany. He was a mechanic and worked at Chuck...
Christine Dollish
Mar 12, 2004
Christine Dollish, 88, of Claysville, died Friday, March 12, 2004 in the Washington Hospital after having been in declining health. She was born in Washington on February 9, 1916, a daughter of Charles and Frances Guby Dollish. Miss. Dollish had worked for many years as an Inspector and Packer at Tiger Valley Glass, in Washington. Surviving is a sister, Ethel...
Harry Francis Earley
Mar 11, 2004
Harry Francis Earley, 82, of Washington, died on Thursday, March 11, 2004, in the Washington Hospital after having been in declining health. He was born in Washington on August 29, 1921, a son of Harry Edward and Catherine Griffin Earley. Mr. Earley was Catholic by faith. He spent several years working in the Civilian Conservation Corps in various parts of...
