Local Obituaries for White Oak, McKeesport, Dravosburg, West Mifflin, Port Vue, North Versailles, East McKeesport, Liberty Boro, Coulter, Versailles, Elizabeth, Irwin, North Huntingdon, Jeannette, Monroeville, Homestead, Pittsburgh, and surrounding areas.
Carmelita A. Halaszynski
Apr 16, 2018
Carmelita A. Halaszynski, age 74, of McKeesport, passed away on Monday, April 16, 2018. She was born in Puerto Rico on July 14, 1943, the daughter of the late Antonio and Facunda Rivera Martinez Guzman, and the wife of the late William N. Halaszynski. She was employed at Forbes Regional Hospital for many years and was a member of Corpus...
Elizabeth Marie Stipkovits Garish
Apr 16, 2018
Elizabeth Marie Stipkovits Garish, age 34, of McKeesport, after a courageous fight with cancer, died Monday, April 16, 2018. She was born on May 3, 1983 and is the daughter of Joseph Carl and Cheryl Joy Lorincz Stipkovits of McKeesport. She was previously employed as a medical secretary at Premier Medical and at UPMC, Braddock Hospital. She is survived by...
Yolanda Majzer
Apr 13, 2018
Yolanda Majzer, age 57, of McKeesport, died April 13, 2018. She was born in St. Croix, Virgina Islands on June 1, 1960. She is the daughter of Phoebie Henry Monell of Elizabeth and the late Marciano Monell. She was a former bus driver for PA Coach Lines for approximately 28 years. She is survived by her sons, Shawn Monell of...
Marlene J. Artim
Apr 6, 2018
Marlene J. Artim, age 79, of North Versailles died on Friday, April 6, 2018. She was born in Duquesne on October 18, 1938 and is the daughter of the late John and Ann Vircik Files and the wife of the late John E. Artim. She was a member of St. Robert Bellarmine Church and was employed by Pizza Hut in...
George Boros
Mar 27, 2018
George Boros, age 86, of McKeesport died Tuesday, March 27, 2018. He was born in Braddock on February 3, 1932 and is the son of the late Andrew and Marie Matta Boros. He was the husband of the late Rose Marie Kopolovich Boros. George served in the Army during the Koreanwar. He was employed at Mesta Machine in Homestead and...
Louise Zivkovich
Mar 25, 2018
Louise Zivkovich, age 101 of McKeesport, died Sunday, March 25, 2018. She was born March 23, 1917 in McKeesport, the daughter of the late Peter Ivkovich and Mary Kusic Ivkovich, and wife of the late Michael Zivkovich. Louise is survived by her son, Michael (Kathleen) Zivkovich, Jr. of Columbia, Maryland, daughter Marilyn Milkovich of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, grandchildren; Michael...
Sallie L. Prihode
Mar 24, 2018
Sallie L. Prihode, age 81 of McKeesport, died Saturday, March 24, 2018. She was born June 16, 1936 in McKeesport, the daughter of the late Ernest and Judy Welsh Lofstrom, and wife of the late Edward P. Prihode. Sallie graduated from McKeesport School of Nursing and worked forty-two years as a nurse for Dr. Laurence T. Ritchie in White Oak,...
Wayne N. Washowich
Mar 23, 2018
Wayne N. Washowich, age 74 of Elizabeth Twp., formerly of Glassport, White Oak and McKeesport, died surrounded by his family on Friday, March 23, 2018. He was born December 19, 1943 in McKeesport is the son of the late Samuel Washowich and Cecelia Campbell Washowich Ferry and the step son of the late Harry (KO) Ferry. Wayne was a...
Zoran Popovich
Mar 20, 2018
Judge Zoran Popovich, of Pawleys Island, South Carolina and formerly of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, passed away on March 20, 2018 at 87 years of age. Born February 4, 1931 in Akron, Ohio, he was the son of the late Very Rev. Dr. Milan Gabriel and Zoritza Popovich. The Judge’s wife and mother of their four children, Helen Bodnar Popovich, preceded him...
Larry Hartos
Mar 18, 2018
Larry Hartos, age 69, of Duquesne, died Sunday, March 18, 2018. He was born September 20, 1948 in McKeesport, the son of the late Arthur L. and Blanche Melcarsky Hartos. Larry was employed at the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory as an industrial electrical technician for thirty-eight years. He was the board president of the White Oak American Legion post 701,...
Carolyn C. Leech
Mar 16, 2018
Carolyn C. Leech, age 75 of McKeesport, died March 16, 2018. She was born February 6, 1943 in Dawson, PA, the daughter of the late Joseph and Harriett Culler Burec, and wife of the late James N. Leech. She was preceded in death by her daughter Kathryn Reeves. Carolyn is survived by her son, Barry J. (Maria) Leech of Ephrata,...
Beverly Williams
Mar 6, 2018
Beverly Williams, age 71 of McKeesport, died Tuesday, March 6, 2018. She was born in McKeesport on May 24, 1946 and was the daughter of the late Elmer J. Pastories and the late Lottie Domino Pastories Yednak and wife of the late David H. Williams. She was retired from UPMC McKeesport as a dietary aide, a welder at Advanced Metallurgy...
Russell V. Babeo, Jr.
Mar 6, 2018
Russell V. Babeo, Jr., age 49, of North Huntingdon, died Tuesday, March 6, 2018. He was born in Pittsburgh on August 29, 1968 and is the son of Marjorie D. Meyers Babeo of N. Huntingdon and the late Russell V. Babeo, Sr. In addition to his mother, he is survived by his sons, Vincent Peter and Tanner Alden Babeo of...
Dr. James Vincent Bonessi
Feb 28, 2018
James Vincent Bonessi, M.D., age 89, of Mt. Lebanon, formerly of White Oak and Elizabeth Twp., died Wednesday, February 28, 2018. He was born in Chester, West Virginia on August 17, 1928 and is the son of the late James and Elizabeth Fiala Bonessi. Dr. Bonessi received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, his medical school degree...
Elizabeth B. Bodenhemier
Feb 22, 2018
Elizabeth B. Bodenhemier, age 85 of West Mifflin, died Thursday, February 22, 2018. She was born December 31, 1932 in Pittsburgh, the daughter of the late Michael R. and Anna Komar Michalik, and wife of the late John L. Bodenhemier. Elizabeth is survived by her daughters; Karen (Daryl) Nichols of OR, Lisa (Harry) Pyle of Cokeburg, PA, Michele (Michael) Thomas of...
Cheryl Y. Rogers
Feb 12, 2018
Cheryl Y. Rogers, age 62 of McKeesport, died Monday, February 12, 2018. She was born October 1, 1955 in Inglewood, California, the daughter of the late Earl Lee and Norma Jean Ferguson Oller. Cheryl is survived by her loving husband, Gary M. DeSheilds; daughter, Melissa Smith of Carlsbad, California; step daughter, Sonya (Joshua) Hines of Norfolk, Virginia; brothers, Erroll Oller...
Armand A. Lombardo
Feb 6, 2018
Armand A. Lombardo, age 87 of White Oak, died Tuesday, February 6, 2018. He was born January 13, 1931 in the Bloomfield section of Pittsburgh, the son of the late Armand E. and Elena F. Mazzotta Lombardo. He was a graduate of McKeesport High School and the University of Pittsburgh. Armand was the former owner of Reliable Auto Service in...
Thomas Pyle
Feb 3, 2018
Thomas Pyle, age 26, of Versailles died on February 3, 2018. He was born in Mount Pleasant on August 23, 1991. He is survived by aunt and caregiver, Lisa Scarlett of Versailles; parents, Tina McCutcheon of White Oak and Thomas Pyle; uncles, Sean (Patty) McCutcheon of Jeannette; Robert McCutcheon of Somerset; Charles McCutcheon of Irwin; half-brothers, Matthew Stemmler of Latrobe;...
Mildred "Millie" Terek Mongelluzzo
Jan 16, 2018
Mildred “Millie” Terek Mongelluzzo was born to Michael and Mary (Yevchak) Terek on December 8, 1927 in McKeesport, PA and died on January 16, 2018 at Paramount, Bethel Park. The seventh of eight children, she was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Joseph, and seven of eight siblings: Sister Mary Josephine VSC, John (Nancy) Terek, Helen (William) Ogurchak,...
Arthur Lawrence Hartos
Jan 8, 2018
Arthur Lawrence Hartos, age 95 of West Mifflin, rejoined his beloved wife, Blanche Barbara Melcarsky Hartos, in Heaven on Monday, January 8, 2018. He was born September 11, 1922 in Duquesne, the son of the late George and Anna Zombek Hartos and resided at the home that he built with his father in West Mifflin. Art retired after 42 years...