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Mird "Skip" Duane Darlington
Jan 25, 2017
Mird "Skip" Duane Darlington of Sharpsville left this world Wednesday evening, January 25, 2017, for a "hot date" with Emily, his beautiful bride of 64 years. He was 90. Mr. Darlington was born May 6, 1926, in Sharon, a son of Paul and Mary Bond Darlington. Skip entered the US Navy at age 17 and served in the South Pacific...
Charles "Chuckie" M. Toten
Jan 24, 2017
Charles "Chuckie" M. Toten, formerly of Sharpsville, passed away Tuesday, January 24, 2017, in Hospitality Care Center, Hermitage. He was 74. Mr. Toten was born April 18, 1943, in Sharon, a son of Michael and Myrtle Blair Toten. He was a 1961 graduate of Sharpsville High School, and served with the US Army, during the Vietnam War. Chuckie was employed...
Edwin Dean Phillips
Jan 22, 2017
Edwin Dean Phillips, formerly a 32 year resident of Hermitage, passed away Sunday, January 22, 2017, in Evansville, IN, where he resided for the past year. He was 94. Mr. Phillips was born January 8, 1923, in Sharon, a son of Daniel and Gertrude (Frohm) Phillips. A graduate of Sharon High School, he received his bachelor's degree from Westminster College,...
Mary Ann Widmyer
Jan 22, 2017
Mary Ann Widmyer of Sharon passed away unexpectedly at 11:11 a.m. Sunday, January 22, 2017 in the emergency room of Sharon Regional Health System. She was 43. Mary Ann was born August 9, 1973, in Sharon, a daughter of Anthony J. and Mary E. Duffy Reno. She was a 1991 graduate of Hickory High School and attended Penn State University,...
Leo W, Smigel
Jan 21, 2017
Leo W. Smigel of Hermitage passed away peacefully at 11:39 a.m. Saturday, January 21, 2017, in his residence, with his family by his side. He was 88. Mr. Smigel was born July 4, 1928, in South Fork, PA, a son of William A. and Sophia Steback Smigel. He moved to the area in 1940 and was a 1946 graduate of...
Mary Elizabeth Burdick
Jan 21, 2017
Mary Elizabeth Burdick of Sharon, went to be with her Lord on Saturday, January 21, 2017, in Nugent's Continuing Care Retirement Community. She was 86. Mary was born in Greenville, PA, on December 10, 1930, the daughter of Walter Emerson Beardsley and Elizabeth Jane Cook Beardsley. She was a graduate of Penn High School and a member of the First...
Myra Natalie Beloff
Jan 20, 2017
Myra Natalie Beloff, formerly of Dougherty Ave., Sharon, passed away at 2:35 a.m. Friday, January 20, 2017, in the emergency room of Northside Medical Center, ValleyCare Health System, Youngstown. She was 90. Mrs. Beloff was born March 11, 1927, in Sharon, the daughter of Sydney and Frances Rosenblum Goldstein. Myra was a 1945 graduate of Sharon High School. She then...
Charlotte J. Christello
Jan 18, 2017
Charlotte J. (Luba) Christello of Farrell, passed away following a brief illness on Wednesday, January 18, 2017, in the hospital of Sharon Regional Health System. She was 82. Mrs. Christello was born June 8, 1934, in Canonsburg, PA, the daughter of Edward M. Luba and Ida Wojnowski Luba. She was a 1952 graduate of Sharon High School. Charlotte was a...
Theresa A. Stanger
Jan 18, 2017
Theresa A. Stanger of Sharon passed away at 4:05 a.m. Wednesday (1-18-17) in Nugent Convalescent Home, Hermitage, with her loving husband by her side. She was 80. Mrs. Stanger was born August 14, 1936, in Campbell, Ohio, a daughter of John and Katherine Gresh Duboy. She was a 1954 graduate of Campbell Memorial (Ohio) High School and moved to the...
Kelly S. Nan
Jan 17, 2017
Kelly Samuel Nan passed away peacefully at home at 7:52 p.m. Tuesday, January 17, 2017, in his home, with his family by his side. Mr. Nan was born in Norwalk, Ohio to Samuel and Dorothy (Shaw) Nan. He graduated from Mercer High School in 1977, where he was an outstanding football player and served as team captain his senior year....
Joan C. Brudowsky
Jan 17, 2017
Joan C. Brudowsky of Hermitage, formerly of Hatboro, PA, passed way unexpectedly at 6:03 p.m. Tuesday (1-17-17) in her residence. She was 63. Mrs. Brudowsky was born August 28, 1953, in Abington, PA, a daughter of John M. and Isabelle Gibson Campbell. Joan was raised in Hatboro and was a 1971 graduate of Upper Moreland High School, Willow Grove, PA....
Wayne M. Culbreth
Jan 16, 2017
Wayne M. Culbreth of Farrell passed away Monday morning (1-16-17) in UPMC Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, following an extended illness. He was 75. Mr. Culbreth was born September 19, 1941, in Montgomery, Alabama, a son of Raymond and Evelyn Schnell Culbreth. Wayne moved to the Shenango Valley at the age of 12 and later attended Sharpsville High School. He served in...
Judith Ann Schuler
Jan 15, 2017
Judith Ann (Meleky) Schuler of Hermitage, passed away peacefully at 2:44 p.m. Sunday, January 15, 2017, in the hospital of Sharon Regional Health System. She was 70. Mrs. Schuler was born February 6, 1946, the daughter of Slick Curtician and Helen Yohman Curtician. She was a 1964 graduate of Brookfield High School. Judi was proud that she went back to...
Muriel M. Russell
Jan 13, 2017
Muriel M. Russell of Hermitage, formerly of Sharon, passed away at 3:31 p.m. Friday (1-13-17) in UPMC Horizon Hospital, Farrell. She was 74. Ms. Russell was born July 15, 1942, in Sharon, a daughter of Neil and Betty Russel Russell. She was a lifelong area resident and 1962 graduate of Sharon High School. Upon graduation, she enrolled in painting and...
Kayleigh Aria Mccollum
Jan 12, 2017
Kayleigh Aria McCollum of Youngstown, OH, passed away Thursday, January 12, 2017, at home. She was six months old. Kayleigh was born June 25, 2016, in Farrell, the daughter of Ernest McCollum Jr. and Jacqueline Mathis McCollum. Surviving are: her parents; two sisters, Kamora Boatwright; and Jaidyn McCollum; a brother, Ernest McCollum III; paternal grandparents, Ernest McCollum Sr. and Virginia...
Robert "Bobby" J. Eiler
Jan 12, 2017
Robert "Bobby" J. Eiler of West Middlesex, passed away at 4:44 a.m. Thursday, January 12, 2017, at home. He was 66. Mr. Eiler was born May 3, 1950, in Rochester, PA, the son of Robert J. Eiler and Thelma J. Baxley Eiler. Bobby was a 1969 graduate of Reynolds High School. Following high school he enlisted in the US Army...
Joanne B. Hillard Sculthorpe
Jan 11, 2017
Joanne B. Hilliard Sculthorpe of Sharon, formerly of Sharpsville, passed away at 9:26 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, in UPMC Jameson Hospital, New Castle. She was 81. Mrs. Sculthorpe was born Sept. 26, 1935, in New Castle, a daughter of Harold Eugene and Edna Belle Hilliard. She was a lifelong area resident and attended Orangeville, Ohio, schools. A homemaker most...
Emil F. Tobias
Jan 10, 2017
Emil F. Tobias of Middletown, NJ, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, January 10, 2017. He was born in Farrell, PA and was the first of six children born to George & Anna Gumca (Tobis) Tobias who were immigrants from Czechoslovakia. He was an alumnus of St. Ann's Parish School, Farrell High School and Rutgers University, Brunswick, NJ. He served in...
Ann M. Fischer
Jan 10, 2017
Ann M. Fischer, of Cape Coral, Fla., passed away peacefully surrounded by family members on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, in the hospital of Sharon Regional Health System. She was 80. She was born in Mount Carmel, Pa. Ann married Philip A. Fischer on Oct. 7, 1961, in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church. Philip A. Fischer passed away on...
Irene D. Poranda
Jan 10, 2017
Irene D. Poranda of the Ridgewood At Shenango Valley, Hermitage, formerly of Chesapeake Ct., Hermitage, and Shady Dr., Farrell, passed away at 1:35 a.m. Tuesday, January 10, 2017, in the hospital of Sharon Regional Health System, after a brief illness. She was 95. Irene was born November 5, 1921, in Farrell, a daughter of Andrew and Susan Dupay Poranda. She...
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