Obituaries
Recent Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Natrona Heights, PA, Allegheny County & Surrounding Areas
Edward J. Sakala
Apr 15, 2016
Edward J. Sakala, 90, of Natrona Heights, passed away Friday, April 15, 2016 in Allegheny Valley Hospital, Natrona Heights. He was born August 17, 1925, in Tarentum, a son of the late George and Anna Steets Sakala. Ed was a veteran of the US Army serving as an MP. He retired from Glassmere Casting Company in East Deer Township where...
Clarice (Gaetani) Falleroni
Apr 7, 2016
Clarice Falleroni, 88, of Brackenridge, passed away Thursday, April 7, 2016 at Concordia Lutheran Ministries, Cabot. She was born February 5, 1928, in Acquaviva Picena, Italy, to the late Secondo and Elide Vulpiani Gaetani. Clarice immigrated to the United States in 1957 to be with her husband who was serving in the United States Army. She was a member of...
Suzanne M. Kostrzewski
Apr 6, 2016
Suzanne M. Kostrzewski, 62, of West Deer Township, passed away Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at UPMC St. Margaret Hospital, Aspinwall. She was born April 14, 1953, in Natrona Heights, the daughter of Mary Homick Kostrzewski, of Natrona Heights and the late Edward E. Kostrzewski. Suzanne worked as a registered nurse for over 30 years at Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh. She...
Denise A. Soback
Mar 31, 2016
Denise A. Soback, 59, of Natrona Heights, passed away Thursday, March 31, 2016 at Forbes Hospital, Monroeville. She was born July 15, 1956, in Natrona Heights, a daughter of the late Richard J. and Julia Zawalnicky Soback. Denise was a member of Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament R.C. Parish, Most Blessed Sacrament Church in Natrona Heights. She is...
Mary Helen (Pemberton) Clark
Mar 27, 2016
Mary Helen Clark, 80, of Natrona Heights, passed away Sunday, March 27, 2016 at Butler Memorial Hospital, Butler. She was born August 28, 1935, in Helenwood, TN., a daughter of the late Evans and Hopie Alice Porter Pemberton. Mary Helen was a 1952 graduate of Robbins High School. She retired in 1994 from the Staff Development Department of Allegheny Valley...
Alfreda (Maleski) Gazarik
Mar 24, 2016
Alfreda (Maleski) Gazarik, 92, of Tarentum, passed away Thursday, March 24, 2016 at her home. She was born April 23, 1923, in Export, a daughter of the late Zygmund and Mary Witucki Maleski. Alfreda was a 1943 graduate of Har-Brack High School and a 1946 graduate of St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing in Pittsburgh. She worked as a Registered...
Marsha Lynn (Palmer) Roenigk
Mar 24, 2016
Marsha Lynn PalmerRoenigk, 49, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, March 24, 2016 in her home. Marsha was born on August 4, 1966 in Southside Pittsburgh to Marthann (Walsh) Palmer-Heilman of Natrona Heights and Richard H (Debbie) Palmer of Gilbert, SC. In addition to her parents, she is survived by a much loved daughter, Alexis Nicole, her life partner Brian Stiltenpole...
John C. Strickengloss
Mar 24, 2016
John C. Strickengloss, 72, of Natrona Heights, passed away Thursday, March 24, 2016 at home surrounded by his family. He was born April 20, 1943, in Wilkinsburg, a son of the late Charles and Sarah Patterson Strickengloss. John was a veteran of the US Air Force serving during the Vietnam war. He retired in 2002 after 30 years of service...
Joan M. (Sabol) Sokolowski
Mar 23, 2016
Joan M. (Sabol) Sokolowski, 87, of Natrona Heights, passed away Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at her home with her family by her side. She was born February 25, 1929, in Nanticoke PA, the daughter of the late Andrew and Theresa Grozio Sabol. Joan was a graduate of the Geisinger School of Nursing in Danville PA. She retired in 1990 after...
Charles M. Conroy, Jr.
Mar 21, 2016
Charles Michael Conroy Jr., 85, of Natrona Heights, died March 21, 2016, peacefully in his sleep after a brave battle with cancer. He was born July 9, 1930, in Harrison, and was a lifelong resident of the area. He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Lois (Carney) Conroy, whom he married July 19, 1952. He is a 1948...
Arthur M. Muir
Mar 15, 2016
Arthur M. 'Mickey' Muir, 81, of Natrona Heights, passed away Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at Bayberry Place, Lower Burrell. He was born May 9, 1934, in Pittsburgh, a son of the late Arthur and Catherine Southward Muir. Mickey worked for 22 years as a Tool and Die Maker for Alcoa in New Kensington and then worked for the former Contraves...
Stephen J. Wilkowski
Mar 13, 2016
Stephen J. Wilkowski, 97, formerly of Buffalo Township, passed away Sunday, March 13, 2016 at Concordia Lutheran Ministries, Cabot. He was born July 22, 1918 in Philadelphia, a son of the late Felix and Mary Kaczynski Wilkowski. Stephen retired from Allegheny Ludlum Steel in Brackenridge. He was a member of St. Joseph R.C. Parish in Natrona. Stephen is survived by...
Jennie J. (Klimkowski) Bubash
Mar 10, 2016
Jennie J. Bubash, 94, of Brackenridge, passed away Thursday, March 10, 2016 in Allegheny Valley Hospital, Natrona Heights. She was born September 11, 1921, in Natrona Heights, a daughter of the late Gordon and Sophie Klimkowski. Jennie was a member of Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament R.C. Parish, Most Blessed Sacrament Church in Natrona Heights. She was a...
Anita L. Jacobs
Mar 5, 2016
Anita L. Jacobs, 58, of Natrona Heights, passed away Saturday, March 5, 2016 at UPMC Montefiore Hospital, Pittsburgh. She was born September 30, 1957, in Natrona Heights, the daughter of the late Edmond D. and Louise E. Moineau Jacobs. Anita was a 1975 graduate of Highlands High School. She worked and an Insurance Broker for Altany, Loynd & Lindquist, Inc.,...
Emma Marie (Scanga) Pastorek
Mar 2, 2016
Erminia (Emma) Marie Pastorek, 92, of Natrona Heights, passed away, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Beloved wife of 66 years of John V. Pastorek. Emma was born October 16, 1923, the sixth of eleven children, she was the daughter of first generation Americans, Frank and Eleanor Maglisco Scanga. Upon graduation from New Kensington High School, Emma attended the Citizens General Hospital...
Ann G. (Golier) Beresik
Feb 19, 2016
Ann G. Beresik, 92, of Natrona Heights passed away on Friday, February 19, 2016 at Homeland Center in Harrisburg, PA in the presence of her daughter and devoted caretaker, Therese Reinhardt. Ann was born July 15, 1923 in Canton, Ohio, daughter of the late Frank C. Golier and Anna V. Novak Golier. She moved to Natrona Heights in 1925 and...
Marcella A. Gnatowski
Feb 16, 2016
Marcella A. Gnatowski, 79, of Natrona, passed away Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at Saxony Health Center, Saxonburg. She was born February 25, 1936, in Natrona, a daughter of the late Walerjan and Catherine Jakubowski Gnatowski. Marcella was a 1953 graduate of Har-Brack High School. She was a member of St. Joseph R.C. Parish, St. Ladislaus Church in Natrona and was...
Elizabeth L. (Bowser) Morris
Feb 15, 2016
Elizabeth Lea 'Libbey' Morris, 61, died Monday, Feb. 15, 2016, at Hospice Wendover. Born in Natrona Heights, she was the daughter of the late William Marion and Norma Mohney Bowser. Libbey graduated from Highland High School in Natrona Heights and met the Lord through Young Life in High School. Moving to Shelby, N.C., in 1999, she became a member of...
Mary Ann (Blumer) Timko
Feb 14, 2016
Mary Ann (Blumer) Timko, 62, of Brackenridge, was granted her angel wings on Sunday, February 14, 2016. Her final days were spent surrounded by family and friends. She was born December 30, 1953, in Pittsburgh, a daughter of the late Melvin B. and Shirley A. Griffith Blumer Sr. Mary Ann worked at the Eat N Park for 32 years as...
Judith Diperna
Feb 12, 2016
Judith DiPerna, 72, of Brackenridge, died on Friday morning, February 12, 2016. Judith was born and raised in Brackenridge, best known locally as the owner, proprietor and expansive story-teller of Judys Town News, a convenience store and meeting place a few paces from Allegheny Ludlums No. 2 Gate. At the age of 42, Judith charged headlong into a new phase...

