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Paae 24 Monday. July 1 1991 tClTf 3ubnnm Ofntgettc sri tilth' V4. VIOLETTA J. STILES, 85, of Mill Creek, W.Va., died Friday, June 28, 1991, at Davis Memorial Hospital, Elkin, W.Va. A daughter of Merle and Eleanor Jones Kinter, she was born March 1.

1906, in Bamesboro. Mrs. Stiles, who lived in Indiana County before moving to West Viriginia in 1976, was a member of the Barkley Wesleyan Methodist Church of Homer City and the United Methodist Missionary Society. She was a homemaker. Surviving are three sons: Harry R-, Streetsboro, Ohio; James Cleveland, Ohio; Arthur La Porte.

Texas: six daughters: Mrs. Leona Bodine, Vineland, N.J.; Mrs. Jessie Barnckman. Mill Creek; Mrs. Mildred Justice, Rock Creek, Ohio; Mrs, Albert Charlotte Phelps, Houston, Texas; Mrs.

Alice Stutzman, Boswell; Mrs. Bill Ellen) Clark, Lorain, Ohio; 23 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; 2 great-great-grandsons; one brother, Edward Kinter, Homer City; and one sister, Alvnda Kruchenbrod, Lilly. She was precded In death by her husband, Henry J. Stiles, in 1976; her parents; a son, Wayne; four grandchildren; three brothers: Grant, James and Larry Kinler; and four sisters: Dorothy Ober, Arvtlla Gibson, Mary Ellen Noel and Mae Woods. Friends will be received from 7-9 p.m.

Monday at Robinson-Lytle's, Indiana, where services will be held at 1:30 m. Tuesday with the Rev. David Duvall officiating. Interment will follow in Mt. Union Cemetery, Alverda.

IRA J. HOLSOPPLE, 86, of Lewistown. died Friday, June 28, 1991, at William Penn Nursing Center. Lewistown. A son of Ira and Amy John Holsopple, he was born Aug.

12, 1901, In Kemlworth. Mr. Holsopple was a member of the Evangel Baptist Church, Lewistown. where he taught Sunday School for over 50 i JOHN W. BIESINGER, 81, of South Walnut Blairsville, died Sunday, June 30, 191, in Indiana Hospital.

A son of Frank and Geneva GeCg Biesinger, he was born Aug. 27, 1909Nfc Pittsburgh. Jf Mr. Biesinger was a member United Presbyterian Church of Blairsville and a life member and past exalted chief of BPOE 931, Indiana. He served orf-th board of directors of the National Ban5rcf the Commonwealth, the FCFC.

and Citizens Ambulance Service. He vls part owner of Penn Partsecr. where be worked for over SO years, retiring in 1989. Surviving are his wife, Jane Wetzel Biesinger; a son, John W. HI.

St. Petersburg, two daughters, Joy Blairsville, and Mrs. Ronald (Bonnie) Casper, Sewickley; and four grandchildren. He was preceded in death by Hhs parents and a sister, Elizabeth Friends will be received from 2-4 and 79 p.m. Monday at the Richard b.

Shoemaker Funeral Home, Blairsville, where services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday with Dr. Roger T. Peterseh officiating. Interment will follow in Oakland Cemetery, Indiana.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Mexico Project, co BlairsJllf United Presbyterian Church, 137 N. Walnut Blairsville. Pa. 15717. or charity of the donor's choice.

MARYBELLE BEATTV ISENBERG, 62, of 173 Lincoln Indiana, died Friday, June 28, 1991, in the Indiana Hospital. A daughter of William Lawrence and Mae Viola Whitesell Beatty, she was June 26, 1929, in Indiana. Mrs. Isenberg was a member of. the First Christian Church, Indiana; and the Home League of the Salvation Army She had been employed by Shick Prinlr ing of Indiana for ten years.

Surviving are five sons: KenneUx Hinick Home; Larry Isenberg, Hacienda Heights, Dan Isenberg Indiana; Jeffrey Isenberg Pawley's Island, S.C. Paul Isenberg, La Calif; a daughter, Mrs. Thomas (Valerie) Lovejoy, Indiana; 14 grandhildren two great-granddaughters; one brother, Silas Renwick Beatty, Indiana; a sister1, Wilda Mae Gasphes, Florida. She was preceded in death by husband, Walter E. Isenberg.

-ii Friends wilt be received from 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at Robinson-Lytle's-, Indiana, where services will be held at. Canadian geese flock to the beach area at Yellow Creek State Park near Penn Run following a late Sunday afternoon, chasing away swimmers and sun bathers. Approximately .15 inches of rain 24-hour period that ended at 7 a.m. this morning, according to measurements taken at Company's Two Lick Creek filtration plant in White Township.

(Gazette photo by Campisano) Perfect weather caps off week's festivities in Punxs'y Kathy Opolski, Pittsburgh, was first overall among the women bicyclists. Chris Monheim won the B-K running race's overall title and Anne Nash was first overall among the women runners. Approximately 80 units inarched in Saturday afternoon's parade which offered $2,550 in prize money. Among the units selected as first-place winners were North Clarion High School Band; Holidays Drum and Bugle Corps, Pittsburgh; East Butler Sparks; Punxsutawney Moose Lodge (best float); ana fire company units from Brockway, DuBois, Mahaffey, Reynolds-ville, Knox Township, Carmichaels, McCalmont Township, Bamesboro, Rossiterand Patton. Members of the 403rd Replacement Detachment, recently back from activation in Operation Desert Storm, headed the parade's second division and drew the warmest welcome from the large crowd of spectators along Mahoning Street.

Marine Sgt. Troy Sherwin, Punxsutawney, accepted the salute of the passing colors from the judges stand during the parade. Other highlights of the final day of the celebration on Saturday were the Barclay Square bandstand performance of Keith Bloom's Dixieland Band and the final performance of the Punxsutawney Theatre Art Guild's production of "The Fantasticks." By DAVE PUTNAM Gazette Staff Writer PUNXSUTAWNEY Seven consecutive days of hot, sunny weather added up to one fine week for the 25th annual Groundhog Festival-Firemen's Old Home Week Punxsutawney. The weather-perfect week of events pleased both groups involved in the annual summer celebration as both the Groundhog Festival and Old Home committees reported near record turnouts and zero rain outs. The week had a fine climax on Saturday with two festival athletic events and the annual firemen's parade drawing large crowds to the downtown area throughout the day.

Punxsutawney Recreation Department's annual B-K running race and the Groundhog Classic bicycle race drew large turnouts Saturday morning. About 130 riders competed in the 30-kilometer event with Dean Goodwill, Bradford, taking first place overall. First-place finishers were Steve Putnam, Punxsutawney, in the 17-20 age category; Steve Wahlmeyer, 21-28; Chuck Schmiedlm, 28-37; Jim Hartnett, 38-49; Don Fink, 50 and over; and Leon Mayhew, 16 years and under. CALM AFTER THE STORM thunderstorm that lashed down fell in the area during the Pennsylvania-American Water UMW decides today whether to call strike CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) The United Mine Workers will decide today whether to authorize a strike for 1,500 West Virginia and Pennsylvania miners at a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel union officials said.

The UMW had set a deadline for today on whether to strike six BethEnergy Mines Inc. opera-lions. A strike would affect BOD West Virginia miners. "There were meetings up until Friday," said Bob Phalen, president of Charleston-based UMW District 17. "We're just going to have to wait and see what happens." The union had set a strike deadline for June 24 but extended that until today after negotiators made progress during several days of intensive meetings two weeks ago.

'There will be some kind of an agreement or there will be a definite date set for a selective strike," said David Bryant, president of UMW Local 633 in Van. The dispute between BethEnergy and the UMW centers on a difference in the definition of "coal lands" and "coal mines." The language is used in provisions that give union miners job opportunities at operations owned by BethEnergy but not necessarily operated by the company. An interim contract agreement signed by the UMW and Bethlehem's coal unit in 1967 covered the company's "coal mines" but said nothing about "coal lands," which is the language used in all other UMW agreements. Bethlehem Steel Corp. is the nation's 27th largest coal produo in Hospital ffotes 101 Heatherbrae Square, Indiana; Denise Weber, 291 Olive Indiana.

John P. Buterbaugh, Homer City RD Theresa A. McDonald, Marion Center; Mazie Vallies. Shelocta; Isabel Pina, Indiana RD 6. PUNXSUTAWNEY Admissions Mrs.

Anthony Bonfanti, Punxsutawney; Margaret M. Hazlett, Punxsutawney. Discharges Mrs. Michael Fale and infant. Home; Linda Spears and infant, Punxsutawney; Bernard Annarino, Punxsutawney; Lisa M.

Bower, Punxsutawney; Martin B. Hudak, Punxsutawney; Mrs. John McM asters, Punxsutawney; Anna E. Snyder, Punxsutawney. years.

He and his wife owned and operated Holsopple's Grocery Store in Lewistown andlater a Christian bookstore. He also worked as a meat cutter. Surviving are five children: Mrs. Arthur (Alice) Borden, Ccntreville, Mrs. John (Patricia) Billing, Louisville, Ohio; Mrs.

Harry (Ann) Garris, Belle-fonte; I. John Holsopple Laurel, Paul R. Holsopple, Elizabethtown; 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Ruth Brailier Holsopple, on Feb. 20, 1991, and his parents.

Friends will be received from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at the Hoenstine Funeral Home, Lewistown, and from 10:30 a.m. to the time of service at the Bethel Brethren Church, Everett. Graveside services will be conducted at 11:30 a.m. in the Bethel Brethren Cemetery by the Rev.

Arthur Borden and the Rev. John Billing. GEORGE FLINKO, 73, of $55 Shryock Indiana, died Saturday, June 29, 1991, at Scenery Hill Manor. A son of John and Pauline Bardziak Flinko, he was born May 6, 1918, in Heilwood. A veteran of World War It, Mr.

Flinko resided in Tide for many years before moving to Indiana in 1948. He was a member of St. Bernard of Clairvaux Roman Catholic Church; LOOM Lodge 174, where he held various offices and served as a pilgrim for the local lodge; FOE Aerie 1468; UMWA Local American Legion Post 141; and a life member of VFW Post 1989. He had been employed by the Coal Co. at the coke yards in Lucernemines.

Surviving are his wife, Betty Yonosick Flinko, whom he married on Jan. 22, 1938; three daughters: Mrs. Alan (Betty Marie) Patterson, Tucson, Mrs. Ronald (Judith Clark and Sandra Montgomery, both of Indiana; seven grandchildren four great-grandchildren; four sisters: Mary Harkovich, Helen BerUck and Mrs. Raymond (Margaret) Capitosti.

Indiana, and Mrs. Joseph (Pauline) Stets, Ernest; and one brother, John, Indiana. He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, George a brother, Michael; and a sister, Julie Poper. Friends will be received from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Monday at the Frank T.

Mihalcik Funeral Home, Indiana, where a parish wake service will be held at 7:30 p.m. and LOOM memorial services will be held at 8 p.m. A Funeral Mass will be offered at 10 a.m. Tuesday al St. Bernard of Clairvaux Church with interment to follow in St.

Bernard Cemetery, Indiana. Graveside military riles will be accorded by VFW Post 1939- JOSEPHINE CATHERINE SABA-TINE, 84, Westland, formerly of Mclntyre, died Friday, June 28, 1991, at the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich. A daughter of the late Jon and Catherine Setlock, she was born Nov. 14, 1906, in Rathmel. Mrs.

Sabatine was of the Catholic faith. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Fred, in 1969; and a son, Fred. Surviving are two daughters, Josephine Grieka and Phyllip Sabatine; a sister, Stella Bobich; four grandchildren, four step-grandchildren, one great-grandchild, seven step-great-grandchildren, and one step-great-great-grandchild. Friends will be received from 4 to 9 p.m.

today at Robinson-Lytle's, Indiana. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 2, at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Mclntyre, with Fr. Michael W. Matusak officiating.

Interment will be in Iselin Union Cemetery. CLAIR D. WADDD1NG, 62. of Ambrose Road, Home, died Sunday, June 30, 1991, In the Indiana Hospital. A son of Thomas C.

and Iva Bush Wadding, he was bora Sept. 30, 1928, in Home. Mr. Wadding attended the Ambrose Baptist Church. He had been employed by the Marion Center Lumber Co.

for 20 years and EMSCO for one year. He was also a volunteer at St. Andrew's Village in Indiana. Surviving are his wife, Margaretta Wadding; three daughters and three sons: Mrs. Frank (Linda) Kertesy, Glen Campbell; Mrs, Dennis (Ruth Anne) Rapach, Marion Center; Mrs.

Lewis (Kathy) Smith, Emporium; Dean Thomas, Emporium; Daniel Clair, Indiana; and David LeRoy, Home; his mother, Indiana; eight grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Donald (LaRue) Dunmire, Las Vegas, Nev. He was preceded in death by his father. Friends will be received from 7-9 p.m, Tuesday at the Bowser-Minich Funeral Home, Plumville, where funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday with the Rev.

Douglas Wright officiating. Cremation will follow. Weekend wrecks a.m. Wednesday. Rev.

Paul Wilkins will officiate with Interment following in Greenwood Cemetery, Indiana. DAVID FRANK PETRO died at birth on Friday, June 28. 1991, in Magee Women's Hospital, Pittsburgh. He was the son of William and Deborah C. Petro, 200 Pauline Drive, Saltshurg: Surviving are his parents and one brother, William W.

Petro, He was preceded In death by his grandparents, Frank and Margaret Petro. A private family memorial service will be conducted at 10 a m. Tuesday, at the Edgewood Cemetery, Saltsburg, with the Rev. Claire George officiating. The Cur-ran Funeral Home, Saltsburg.

is in charge of arrangements. ANNA CENTANINO CURTO, 96,, qf Slickville, died Saturday, June 29, 1991, in her home. A daughter of John and Eleanor Tore Centanino. she was born Jan. 12, 1895') Vialfre, Italy.

She was a member of SI. Sylvester Roman Catholic Church, Slickville. Surviving are one son, Michael Jy Slickville; and fivedaughters: Mrs. Eleanor McCoy, Clarksburg; Mrs. Domenica Rapasky, Slickville: Mrs.

Edward (Mary) Katkish, Laurel, and Mrs. Alvin (Ida) Thomas and Mrs. Emedio (Katherine) Pasqualucci, both of WaU dorf, 10 grandchildren and 6 greatr grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, John Curto, in 1982, and a daughter, Teresa Curto Zaranek- Friends will be received from 7-9 p.m. Monday and 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.

Tuesday at the Curran Funeral Home, Mass of Christian Burial will be conducted at St. Sylvester Roman Catholic Church, Slickville, at 10 a.m. Wednesday with the Rev. Roger St at nick officiating. Interment will follow in Edgewood Cemer tery, Saltsburg.

DAVID G. GRYBOSKY, 75. of Bamesboro RD 1, died June 30. 1991. at Haida Manor, Hastings.

Friends will be received from 5-9 p.m.; Monday at the Long Funeral Home tnc. Bamesboro, where the Rosary will be recited at 5:30 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church, Bamesboro, by the Rev.

Ronald Osinski. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society. JOHN MIK1TKO, 69. of Bamesboro 1, died June 29, 1991, at Memorial Hospital, Johnstown.

') Friends were received from 2-4 and 7-4 p.m. Sunday at the Long Funeral Horn Bamesboro, where Rosary wa recited at 8 p.m. Mass of Christian Buna; was held at II a.m. Monday in the Mt Carmel Catholic Church, Bamesboro: Interment followed in SI. John's Byzar tine Cemetery, Bamesboro.

BIESINGER, John II a.m.. Richard Shoemaker Funeral Home. Blair svilU FLINKO, George, 10 a.m. St. Bernard a Clairvaux Catholic Church, Indiana (Fran-'.

T. Mihalcik Funeral Home, Indiana) GRYBOSKY, David 1 1 a.m., St. Stonlilou Catholic Church, Bameiboro (Long Fuoerc. Home, Bameiboro) PETRO, David Fronk. 10 a.ei., prival.

graveside services, Edgewood Cemetery Saltsburg (Curran Funeral Home, Salti! burg) SABATINE, Josephine Catherine, 10 a.m. Church of the Good Shepherd, Mclntyr Robiftson-lytle'i) STILES, Vloletta. 1.30 a.m. Roblnson-LylleV INDIANA Births June 29, 1991 Dennis and Teresa Buggey, S3 Carlisle Homer City, a girl; Kathy and Richard Silvis, Shelocta RD 3, a girl. Admissions Benjamin C.

Galen tine, 16 Harrison Ctymer; Amanda M. Lucas, Clymer RD Matte Vallies, Shelocta; Sarah S. Bowman. Shelocta RD Vivian M. Pittman, Cherry Tree RD 2.

Discharges Patricia Blsh, Indiana RD Janet E. a chak Shelocta RD 3 Cindy Oswalt. Homer City RD Breanne N. Skultety, Homer City RD Linda D. Fedder and infant.

502 Whittter Drive, Indiana. Rhonda L. Wilson, 167 Sarah Homer City; Mary Stam Bnd infant, Shelocta; Brenda E. Lampert, Indiana RD vehicle was severe: however, an estimate of damage to the house was not immediately available. Citizens Ambulance Service, Armagh Station, transported Lantzy to the hospital.

ArmagnEast Wheat-field Township fire personnel assisted at the scene. CREEKSIDE A 6-year-old child was slightly injured and treated at Indiana Hospital as an outpatient following a traffic accident along Route 954 northeast of Creekside at p.m. Saturday, state police said. According to police, Jessica Shields, 6, of Creekside, darted into the side of a vehicle driven by Thomas Gerber, 34, of Home. RURAL VALLEY State police said a vehicle driven by Floyd G.

Eckman, 42, of Sagamore was backing out of a field across Cowanshan-nock Township Route 724, but backed too far and went over an embankment at 10 p.m. Sunday. Damage to the vehicle was moderate. Eckman and his wife, Dorothy, 41, were transported to Armstrong County Memorial Hospital in Ki Wanning where a spokesperson said they received outpatient treatment. McGEES MILLS A three-vehicle crash on Route 36 in McGees Mills at 2:50 p.m.

Sunday injured two drivers, both of whom were treated as outpatients at Punxsutawney Area Hospital, state police said. Police said the vehicles were operated by Quintin W. Weaver, 68, of Severna Park, Robin M. Rano-chok. 33, Bamesboro RD and Theodore P.

Kappernaros, 29, Silver Spring, Md. All occupants including drivers were using their seat bells and police attributed this to reducing injuries to drivers Weaver and Kappernaros, both of whom were treat Kerri Ann Smith, Clymcr RD 1. Susanna E. Pennington and infant, Clymer RD 2: Kimberly A. Torzok, Homer City RD Johanna B.

King, Indiana RD (Catherine V. Mroakey and infant, Derry. Births June 30, 1991 Stacey Bezilla, Indiana RD 3, a girl; John and Elizabeth Palmer, 200 Sunset Drive, Indiana, a girl. Admissions Leslie Bartlebaugh, Homer City RD Alice D. Whitesel, Indiana RD Robert M.

Overdorff, 190 Miller Indiana; Edward J. Lopacinski, Country Meadows. Discharges John Goral, Homer City RD2; Jason A. Lydic, Clymer RD Margaret A. Whitfield, Josephine; Elizabeth M.

Herron, leave 1 1 ed as outpatients at the hospital. Ranochok and five passengers in his van escaped injury. Damage ranged from moderate to severe. Police said the damaged vehicles blacked the flow of traffic for an hour and 20 minutes. Mahaffey, CurwensviUe and Big Run fire departments and Mahaffey, CurwensviUe and Punxsutawney ambulance services assisted at the scene.

ROSSITER Police said a vehicle operated by Thomas Arthurs, 59, of DuBois went out of control on a curve along State Route 1045 in Canoe Township at 4: 15 p.m. Friday and hit a cement wall, injuring two people, according state police. Damage was light. The driver and a passenger police identified as Faythe Rae Brown, 49, of Sykesvllle were transported to Punxsutawney Area Hospital via Punxsutawney Ambulance. The pair received outpatient treatment, police said.

Rossi ter Fire Department assisted at the scene. BIG RUN Timothy Ray Sutter, 21, of 17 Clinton Ross iter, apparently escaped injury when his vehicle struck an embankment along State Route 2005 south of Big Run at 1:15 a.m. Sunday, state police said. Damage was moderate. ANITA Jeffrey Kaza, 26, of Punxsutawney RD 7 sustained a minor head injury, according to state police, who said Kaza's car slid on the wet highway and sheared off a utility pole in a crash along State Route 2017 in McCalmont Township near Anita al 7 p.m.

Sunday. Police said Kaza was responding to a McCalmont Township Fire Department exercise when the crash took place. McCalmont Township Fire Department and Punxsutawney Ambulance Service responded to the scene. injured GREEN BRIER State police said a vehicle driven by Ryan M. Harr, 18, of Derry RD 2 went out of control and hit an embankment when a deer darted onto State Route 949 in Heath Township in northern Jefferson County west of Green Brier at 6:30 a.m.

Saturday. Harr and two passengers escaped injury, but damage to the vehicle was severe, police said. Sigel Fire Department assisted at the scene. CREEKSIDE State police said a vehicle driven by Joseph Abbey, 28, of Creekside ran onto a sidewalk, tipped onto its side and slid into a utility pole along Main Street in Creekside at 6:15 a.m. Sunday.

Damage was moderate. Creekside Fire Department assisted at the scene, police said. CLYMER An unoccupied pickup truck drifted into a porch at the Stake residence on Fourth Street in Clymer at 8:34 a.m. Saturday. Details were not immediately available; however, Clymer Fire Department was dispatched to the scene.

Three earn degrees at Pitt Three Indiana residents were awarded degrees from the University of Pittsburgh at the institution's recent commencement. They are as follows. William D. Chapman, 650 Grant earned a Ph.D in the school of education; Laura B. Stover, 325 Edge wood Drive, earned her B.S.

degree in nursing; and Chris Kuzne ski, 119 Hamilton received a B.A. in the college of arts and sciences. Traffic accidents injured 11 people during the weekend, according to police reports. The summary: BLAIRSVILLE Kelly M. Frew, Blairsville RD 2, was injured and rushed to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh via Life Flight helicopter following a one-vehicle crash along Route 22 just west of Blairsville at 3:08 a.m.

Sunday, state police said. A spokesperson at the Pittsburgh hospital said she is in fair condition today. Police said the Frew car went out of control and overturned, ejecting the driver from the vehicle. Blairsville and Eastern Derry Township fire personnel and Citizens Ambulance Service. Blairsville Station, assisted at the scene.

Damage to the car was moderate. I CRAMER Terrance Michael Gill, 36, of Johnstown was transported to Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital in Johnstown via Citizens Ambulance Service, Armagh Station, following a one-vehicle crash along Route 403 just south of Cramer at 9:25 a.m. Saturday, state police report. A hospital spokesperson said Gill is in fair condition today. According to police, the Gill vehicle overturned.

ArmaghEast Wheatfield Township Fire Department assisted at the scene. SEWARD John C. Lantzy, 45, of pavenport, who was injured in a one-vehicle crash involving a house along Route 56 near Seward, is In fair condition today at Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital in Johnstown, according to a hospital Spokesperson. Stale police said Lanlzy's vehicle Went out of control, crossed the highway and struck the Wayne H. Baring residence.

Damage to the.