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The Pittsburgh Press Tuesday, November 3, 1987 METRO NEWS OBITUARIES PAT worker charged with LRT fare theft By Joe Grata line Yampiery of Dix Hills, N.Y., and three grandsons. Friends may call from 7 to 9 tonight and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the John A. Frey-vogel Sons Inc. Funeral Home, 4900 Centre Ave.

at Devonshire Street, Oakland. A mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Thursday in St. Paul Cathedral, Fifth Avenue, Oakland. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association, 414 Penn Hills Mall, Pittsburgh 15235. Frank G. Richards Frank G. Richards, 76, a retired engineer, died Sunday of a heart attack at his home on South Park Road, Bethel Park. Mr.

Richards was a 1934 graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served for three years with the Navy during World War II. He worked for the American Waterworks Co. in New York from 1934 to 1953 and for the Wilkins Construction Co. from 1953 until he retired in 1972. Mr.

Richards was the former treasurer of the Bethel Park Public Library and was a member of Valley Brook Country Club and the Nautical Research Guild Inc. and was a council member of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. He is survived by his wife, Elanor Blanning Richards; a daughter, Sus-anne Fagan of Pittsburgh; a sister, Ethel Offut of New Castle, and three grandchildren. Private arrangements are being handled by the Harold E. Connell and Son Funeral Home Bethel Park.

The Pittsburgh Press A Port Authority Transit employee has been arrested on charges of stealing money at an off-board fare collection booth on the new light rail system in the South Hills. John T. King, 45, of Bridgeville was taken into custody by PAT police after Wednesday morning's rush hour. PAT Police Chief Richard Ehland, Lt. Vera Avery and Sgt.

Tom Waschak had been observing King often with binoculars for some time at the fare booth at Washington Junction Station, Bethel Park. When they arrested him, they confiscated $163 of money that allegedly was from riders who boarded the trolley system that morning. King will have a hearing on charges of theft and receiving stolen property at 1 p.m. Thursday before District Magistrate William Martin of Bethel Park. A PAT employee since September 1976, King had been driving a bus out of the Collier Division garage.

PAT assigned him to fare collection duty at the trolley station three weeks before his arrest, after King was injured during his bus-driving duty. PAT said King has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of the case. PAT has been collecting fares at Station Square and South Hills Village Station for more than two years, and at other major South Hills stations for the past four months, because of heavy ridership since the final part of the 10.5-mile line opened in July. On-board fare collections at those busy stations during weekday rush hours had been blamed for delaying service. King is the only employee who has been charged with stealing fares since PAT started the off-board fare collection.

Barnhill Funeral Home, 420 Locust Washington. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the First United Methodist Church, Beau and College streets, Washington. Burial will be in Washington Cemetery. The family suggests memorial contributions to the American Cancer Society or First United Methodist Church of Washington.

Patricia Ann Webre Burial services for Patricia Ann Webre, 35, formerly of Troy Hill, will be conducted at 10 a.m. tomorrow in St. Mary's Cemetery, Ross. Mrs. Webre, of Allentown, Lehigh County, died Saturday of cancer in Lehigh Valley Hospital.

She was a 1974 graduate of Penn State University, and was a public relations employee of Pennsylvania Power Light Co. and the Allentown School District. She was a former reporter for the Bethlehem Globe. Surviving are her husband, Robert; two sons, Daniel and Thomas; a daughter, Kathryn; her mother, Anne Hunkele; three brothers, Arthur, James and Edward Hunkele; and a sister, Karen Friend. The family suggests memorial contributions to the American Cancer Society.

Deaths elsewhere Robert A. Gibson, 61, a retired Navy commander formerly of West View; in Georgia in a fall from a tree. John James Nedlik 72, a Pittsburgh native; in Rialto, Calif. William Kebblish, 60, retired Bureau of Mines employee and former Pleasant Hills resident; in Harris-burg. Herbert R.

Mayes, 87, a high-school dropout from Harlem who became one of the country's top magazine editors at Good Housekeeping and McCall's; in New York City of pneumonia. Charles M. Morris Charles M. Morris, 80, retired owner of the General Wrecking Co. in East Liberty, died in Montefiore Hospital Sunday after a heart attack.

Mr. Morris, who lived on Beech-wood Boulevard in Squirrel Hill, was a delegate to three Democratic national conventions, a life trustee of Montefiore and a past board member of Beth Shalom Congregation in Squirrel Hill. He was also a member of B'nai B'rith and the Masonic lodge. He is survived by his sister, Mollie Streng of Jacksonville, Fla. Services will be at 1 p.m.

tomorrow at the Ralph Schugar Chapel, 5509 Centre Shadyside. Friends will be received an hour before the services. Burial will be in Beth Shalom Cemetery in Shaler. Memorial contributions may be made to Montefiore Hospital. Ruth M.

Jones Ruth McCabe Jones, 83, a retired English teacher who taught for 20 years at Washington High School in Washington, died yesterday of a heart attack at the Country Meadow Nursing Home, South Fayette. Mrs. Jones, of East Beau Street, East Washington, attended Coraopo-lis High School and Wooster College in Ohio. She also did post-graduate work at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Michigan. She was a former president of the YWCA in Washington, and the auxiliaries at Washington Hospital and Washington and Jefferson College.

She also belonged to the Drama Club, Symphony South and the First United Methodist Church of Washington. She is survived by her husband, J. Addison Jones; a son, Addison B. of Yorba Linda, two brothers, Willis R. McCabe of Fallbrook, and Robert V.

McCabe of Huntington Woods, and four grandchildren Friends will be received from 7 to 9 tonight and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Piatt and Julius Erdely Julius "Ceasar" Erdely, 71, former owner of the Victory Bar and Grill on Smithfield Street, Downtown, died Sunday at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Oakland after a heart attack. Mr. Erdely, who lived on Sheldon Avenue, Green Tree, was a veteran of World War II and a member of the flight crew that bombed the Ploesti oil fields in Romania. He owned the Victory Bar until he retired in 1985.

He is survived by his wife, Catherine Patanyi Erdely; a son, John G. of Green Tree; a daughter, Pam of Wilkinsburg; a stepson, Bernard Ta-vis of Monroeville; two stepdaughters, Gloria Rodio of Cleveland and Judy Smith of Green Tree, and 10 grandchildren. Friends may call until 9 p.m. today at the Harvey L. Corba Funeral Home, 997 Greentree Road, Green Tree.

A mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. Margaret Roman Catholic Church, 310 Mansfield Green Tree. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Emil J.

Bonavita Sr. Emil J. Bonavita 74, a retired director of water safety for the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Red Cross, died at Shadyside Hospital yesterday of congestive heart failure. Mr. Bonavita was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and had lived in Pittsburgh for the past 55 years.

He lived on Fifth Avenue in Shadyside. He taught in the Pittsburgh school system from 1936 to 1946, then joined the Red Cross, where he worked for 26 years. Mr. Bonavita was a member of St. Paul Cathedral and a 1936 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, which he attended on a track and football scholarship.

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