Mary Jo Riggans Jackson
Jan 27, 2017
Mary Jo Riggans Jackson, 68, of Portersville passed away the afternoon of January 27, 2017 after a long battle with illness at VNA Inpatient Hospice, Butler. Born in New Castle on July 15, 1948, she was a daughter of Charles and Dorothy Jones Riggans. She earned an associate degree from Youngstown State University in hospital food service. She was employed...
Walter "Walt" P. Mckeever
Jan 25, 2017
Walter P. McKeever, age 70, of Neshannock Township, passed away on January 25, 2017 at UPMC Jameson Hospital. Born in New Castle on August 20, 1946, he was a son of Walter J. and Donna J. (Smith) McKeever. Surviving at home is his beloved wife, the former Anita Malley, whom he married on April 27, 2001. Walt was a graduate...
Douglas R. Mchattie
Jan 23, 2017
Douglas R. McHattie, 42, of New Castle passed away the morning of January 23, 2017 at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh. Born in New Castle on March 17, 1974, he was a son of Ernest and Martha Bishop McHattie. On October 25, 2003 he married the former Victoria Grimm, who survives him at home. After graduating from Shenango High School, he...
Joseph L. Cunningham
Jan 21, 2017
Former leatherneck bad ass, Joseph L. Cunningham, made the big trip on January 21, 2017 one day after his 85th birthday. Joe was the son of the late John J. Cunningham and Ivabelle (Stickle). He was brother to Wallace Cunningham, Pauline Reid, and the late Harry Cunningham. A New Castle native, Cunningham lived his entire life in Lawrence County, with...
Dorothy I. Wilder
Jan 21, 2017
Dorothy I. Wilder, 89, of Neshannock Township, passed away the night of January 21, 2017 at UPMC Jameson Hospital. Born August 17, 1927 in Coraopolis, Pa., she was the daughter of Harry L. and Florence Gribble McFeaters. Dorothy was a 1946 graduate of New Castle High School. She was a sales associate for K-Mart and Meeks Jewelry and previously an...
Eugene S. Blaskewicz
Jan 19, 2017
Eugene S. Blaskewicz, 69, of Neshannock Township, passed away January 19, 2017 at St. Francis Medical Center in Midlothian, Virginia. Born November 11, 1947 in McKeesport, Pa., he was the son of Stanley Francis Blaskewicz and Sophie Castor Blaskewicz. He is survived by his loving wife of 45 years, Nancy Onopa Blaskewicz, whom he married August 21, 1971. After his...
Edward H. Moyer
Jan 19, 2017
Edward H. Moyer, 86, of Shenango Township, passed away the morning of January 19, 2017 at UPMC Jameson Hospital. Born in Castlewood, PA on December 12, 1930, he was a son of Harvey and Anna Marie Crans Moyer. His wife of 35 years, the former Dorothy "Jean" Brown, survives him at home. A graduate of Shenango High School, he then...
William J. Reed
Jan 16, 2017
William J. Reed, 66, of New Castle, passed away on January 16, 2017 at UPMC Mercy Hospital. Born in Hobart, Indiana on September 28, 1950, he was a son of Patricia Fahey. A 1968 graduate of Hobart High School, he then served as a petty officer in the US Navy during the Vietnam War. He was employed at King's Restaurant...
Dorothy Mae Bromley
Jan 14, 2017
Dorothy Mae Bromley, age 104, of New Castle went to be with her Lord and Savior the morning of January 14, 2017 at Golden Hill Nursing Home. Born in New Castle on December 8, 1912, she was a daughter of W. A. and Mary Camilla Tanner Sadler. She was preceded in death on November 13, 1997 by her husband, Thomas...
Roy M. Sheehy
Jan 6, 2017
Roy M. Sheehy, age 87, of Edinburg passed away the night of January 6, 2017 at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh. Born in New Castle on December 22, 1929, he was a son of Robert and Lanora Marshall Sheehy. On October 4, 1952 he married the former Phyllis A. VanNatten. She preceded him in death on December 3, 2011. He attended...
Joan E. Christy
Jan 4, 2017
Joan E. Christy, 74, of New Castle, passed away January 4, 2017 at UPMC Jameson Hospital. Born December 13, 1942 in New Castle, she was the daughter of Harold and Bertha B. Walters Brown. She was preceded in death by her husband, Harry E. Christy on April 21, 2005. Joan was employed by McDonalds and was a member of Hoover...
Marian Jean Covert
Dec 31, 2016
Marian Jean Covert, 92, formerly of Hunters Woods, passed away the afternoon of December 31, 2016 at Jameson Care Center. Born August 22, 1924 in New Castle, she was the daughter of William A. and Marion C. Brandon Stevenson. She was preceded in death on November 23, 2014 by her husband of 71 years, Earl R. Covert, whom she married...
William E. Mitchell
Dec 30, 2016
William E. "Bill" Mitchell, age 83, of New Castle, passed away the afternoon of December 30, 2016 at St. Elizabeth Hospital. Born in New Castle on July 21, 1933, he was the son of Lawrence and Julia E. Withrow Mitchell. He was preceded in death on September 19, 2009 by his wife of 59 years, Betty Jane Wyman Mitchell, whom...
Robert J. Miller, Sr.
Dec 29, 2016
Robert J. Miller, Sr., age 82, of Sylvania Road, Slippery Rock, passed away the night of December 29, 2016 at his daughter's residence. Born December 22, 1934 in New Castle, he was the son of Jefferson A. and Ruby Mae Young Miller. Surviving at home is his wife of 59 years, Joan Velma Rogers Miller, whom he married on June...
Stanley P. Watkins
Dec 27, 2016
Stanley P. Watkins, Jr., age 85, of Shenango Township went to be with his Lord and Savior the afternoon of December 27, 2016 after a lengthy illness. Born in New Castle on August 16, 1931, he was a son of Stanley P. Watkins, Sr. and Alma Crum Watkins. On December 3, 1954 he married the former Margaret M. Crowley, who...
Paul R. Jones
Dec 27, 2016
Paul R. Jones, age 83, of New Castle passed away the evening of December 27, 2016 at UPMC Jameson. Born in New Castle on April 21, 1933, he was a son of Raymond and Verna Jones. He married the former Shirley M. Sarbo on February 14, 1953. She survives him at home. A Korean War Veteran, he was discharged from...
Dianna B. Brenneman
Dec 26, 2016
Dianna B. Brenneman, age 79, of New Wilmington passed away the afternoon of December 26, 2016 at Jameson Care Center. Born in Ellwood City on December 6, 1937, she was a daughter of the late Curtis G. and Dorothy L. Winterbottom Brown. After her mother passed away, she was raised by her step-mother, Elva Vogler Brown. She resides in Zelienople....
Mary Louise Beckert
Dec 23, 2016
Mary Louise Beckert, 92, of New Castle, passed away the morning of December 23, 2016 at UPMC Jameson. Mary was born on December 5, 1924, in New Castle, to the late Charles E. and LaRena Palmer Eddy. She married Joseph P. Beckert on April 16, 1949. He preceded her in passing on November 22, 1986. Mrs. Beckert was the owner...
Sarah Frances Miller Sonntag
Dec 22, 2016
Sarah Frances Miller Sonntag, age 91, of New Castle passed away the morning of December 22, 2016 at Golden Hill Nursing Home. Born in Jackson Center on February 25, 1925, she was a daughter of Ansley S. and Dora W. Klabbatz Fowler. In 1944 she married Charles Miller, who preceded her in death in 1991. She then married Paul Sonntag...
Virginia Elizabeth Fleming
Dec 20, 2016
Virginia Elizabeth Fleming, age 101, of New Castle passed away the morning of December 20, 2016 at Avalon Nursing Center. She had been a resident there since 2007. Born on November 17, 1915 in Coaltown (New Castle), she was a daughter of Roy S. and Bertha M. Thomas Kneram. She married Donald H. Fleming on October 18, 1953. He passed...
