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Standard-Speaker, Monday, April 16, 1990 Obituary Helen D. Siegfried Helen D. Siegfried, R.R. 2, Box 231, Drums, died Saturday at 2:30 a.m. at the Berwick Retirement Village, Berwick.

Born in Wilkes-Barre Sept. 6, 1904, she was a daughter of the late Clark P. and Flora (Berry) Croman, and resided in Drums most of her life. She was a memaber of Conyngham United Methodist Church, Conyngham. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by a granddaughter; one great-grandson; brothers, Clarence, Paul, Clark, Albert, Grant and Ralph, and sisters, Myra Cooper and Ruth Swank.

Surviving are her husband, Harty Siegfried, to whom she was married 66 years; three children, Mrs. Harold (Megan) Roth, R.R. 2, Drums; Robert Delaware; and Mrs. Floyd (Lois) Fritz, Oregon; 10 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; one greatgreat grandchild; a brother, Edwin Croman, Montgomery; and one sister, Mrs. Alice Evans, Weatherly.

The funeral will be held Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. from the Mark S. Harman Funeral Home, Conyngham-Rock Glen Road. Pastor Debra Stantor of Conyngham United Methodist Church will officiate. Interment will be in St.

John's Cemetery, St. Johns. Friends call from 7 to 9 this evening. Jean A. Monaghan Jean A.

Monaghan, 225 E. Coal Shenandoah, died unexpectedly night at the Ashland State General Hospital shortly after admission. Born in Shenandoah, she was a daughter of the late Patrick and Nellie (Koon) Donovan. She had been employed as a secretary at Annunciation BVM Church, Shenandoah, until her retirement. She was a member of that church; member and past regent of Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court Annunciation 175; served as district deputy for the Catholic Daughters, and was a member of the Shenandoah Senior Citizens.

Surviving are her husband, Francis two sons, Frank Shenandoah Heights, and Patrick Weatherly; daughter, Miss Maryellen V. Monaghan, Topton; sister, Mrs. Marian Penner, Point Pleasant, N.J.; and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 9:30 from the Walukiewicz-Oravitz-Fell Funeral Home, Shenandoah. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m.

in Annunciation BVM Church, Shenandoah, followed by interment in the parish cemetery. Friends may call from 6 to 9 this evening. The Thomas M. Sullivan Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Henry A.

Erdman Henry A. Erdman, 383 Hudsondale Weatherly, died Friday evening at the Hazleton General Hospital. He was born in Weatherly, July 25, 1914, son of the late John J. Erdman, who died in 1968, and Tania Woodring Erdman, who died in 1987. Prior to retiring in 1969 he was the proprietor of Erdman's Dairy in Weatherly.

He was a member of Salem United Church of Christ: Navy veteran of World War II; honorary member of the Citizens Fire Weatherly. He was a member of the Disabled American Veterans, Allentown; White Haven AmVets, and American Legion Post 630, Weatherly. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Howard, in 1940. Surviving are his wife, the former Mary Condash; son, Jack Erdman, R.R. 2, Weatherly; daughter, Mrs.

Peter (Janet) Herbener III, White Haven; sister, Mrs. Clifford (Grace) Weir, Weatherly, and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. from the Philip J. Jeffries Funeral Home, Weatherly.

The Rev. Donald J. Stump pastor of Salem UCC, will officiate. Interment will be in Union Cemetery, Weatherly. Friends may call from 7 to 9 this evening.

Smith Floral See Us Co. when planning for FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS for Funerals, Church, Cemetery, Wedding and other special occasions SHOPPE 41 East Broad, Hazleton Phone 454-1621 555 N. Broad, West Hazleton Phone 454-4471 Joseph G. Popalis, ex-Shenandoah official Joseph G. Popalis, 215 Ohio Shenandoah Heights, a guest at Shenandoah Manor, died Saturday morning at the Ashland State Hospital, where he was a patient one week.

He was born in Shenandoah, son of the late Andrew and Mary Popalis, and was educated in the Shenandoah schools. He was a retired miner, having worked at Kehley Run and Maple Hill mines in Shenandoah. He was a foreman for the WPA, appointed by Gov. George Earle, in Department of Highways in the 1930s, and by Gov. Lawrence as a utilities plant operator at the Locust Mountain Hospital.

He was a former borough council president and councilman, and a former Schuylkill County deputy coroner. He was voted into the Pennsylvania Voters Hall of Fame by Gov. Dick Thornburgh. Preceding him in death were his wife, the former Anna Lokitus, in 1978, and three brothers, Peter, John and Andrew. Surviving are three sons, Joseph, Philadelphia; Albert, Tampa, and Andrew, Shenandoah Heights, with whom he resided; 14 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and a number of nieces and nephews.

He was the last member of his immediate family. The funeral will be held Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. from the Oravitz Home for Funerals, Shenandoah. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated in St. George's Church, Shenandoah, followed by interment in Our Lady of Fatima Cemetery, Shenandoah.

Friends may call Tuesday from 5 to 9 p.m. Carolyn (Koch) Hollar Carolyn (Koch) Hollar, 80, a resident of 340 N. Broad West Hazleton, died suddenly Sunday at her residence. Born in Hazleton, a daughter of the late William and Margaret (Hildebrand) Koch, she spent the early years of her life in the Hazleton area. She resided in various communities in upstate New York from 1944 until returning to West Hazleton in 1978.

She was a 1927 graduate of Hazleton High School and graduated from the former Ithaca Conservatory, now Ithaca College. Prior to relocating to New York state she had been employed as a music instructor for the Hazleton School District from 1930 to 1944. She was a member of Christ's Memorial United Church of Christ, West Hazleton, where she was a member of the Ladies Aid Society and director of the church choir. She was also a member of the American Association of University Women and was a member and national associate of Bread for the World. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her stepmother, Emily S.

Jenkins Koch, and her husband, Donald K. Hollar, in 1978. Surviving are a daughter, Jane Hollar, I Liverpool, N.Y.; a son, W. Lawrence Hollar, Arlington, and one granddaughter. Relatives and friends are invited to attend a memorial service in Christ's Memorial UCC, Madison Avenue and Allen Street, West Hazleton, Saturday at 1 p.m.

Interment will be at the convenience of the family in the Mountain View Cemetery. There will be no public viewing. Contributions to the memorial fund of the Christ's Memorial UCC, West Hazleton, are welcome by the family. The Krapf and Hughes Funeral Home, Hazleton, is in charge of arrangements. Funeral The funeral of Anna Skitko, 31 Broad Beaver Meadows, who died Wednesday afternoon at the Hazleton General Hospital, was held Saturday morning from the Frank J.

Bonin Funeral Home Inc. The Very Rev. Robert Evancho and the Rev. Stephen P. Luzetsky officiated.

Both priests gave the final blessing at the grave in Ss. Peter and Paul's B.C. Cemetery, Coxeville. Pallbearers were Andrew Skitko, Joseph Silock, George Oressie, Bernard Choma, George Petrilack and Thomas J. Shaw.

Card of Thanks JOHN A. DAUGIRDA We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to all our kind relatives, neighbors and friends who assisted and consoled us during the illness and death of my beloved husband and our father, John A. Daugirda. Also special thanks to the Hospice Staff at the VA Medical Center (WB), Very Rev. Father Kelly, Rev.

Msgr. Wroblewsky, Mr. Mrs. Stanley Wilczek, the pallbearers, those who sent spiritual and floral bouquets, cards, food trays and monetary gifts, and all who assisted us in any other way. GOD BLESS YOU ALL Wife and Children Mrs.

Bertha Moyer Mrs. Bertha I. Moyer, 83, formerly of 530 Center Parryville, died Sunday in Weatherwood, Weatherly. Born in Weissport, she was a daughter of the late James F. and Emma S.

(Ebert) Hawk. She was a member of St. Peter's United Church of Christ, Parryville. Preceding her in death were her husband, Curvie; a daughter, Ruth Brown, and a son, Dale. Surviving are two sons, Aaron, Parryville; Harry, Nesquehonthree daughters, Mrs.

Howard (Irene) Danner, R.R. 1 Schnecksville; Minnie Peters, R.R. 4 Slatington; Viola Cinicola, Lansford; her twin Edna Schweibinz, Weatherly; 11 grandchildren, and 20 greatgrandchildren. Services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. from the Richard M.

Miller Funeral Home, 137 Fairview (Union Hill), Lehighton. Friends may call Wednesday from 10 to 11 a.m. Vine, Locust to be swept Vine and Locust streets will be cleaned Tuesday along their entire lengths, from Diamond Avenue to 22nd Street, by the Hazleton Highway Department's mechanical sweeper beginning at 7 a.m. Foreman Angelo Cusatis requests motorists to cooperate by not parking in the designated areas until after the cleanup has been completed. Four people were injured when this car ran off Route 940, struck a house and overturned late Sunday night in the village of Middletown Jeddo.

(Photo by Ellen O'Connell Car slams into house; 4 hurt Four people were injured Sunday night when the car they were riding in ran off Route 940, struck a house and overturned in the village of Middletown Jeddo. State police at Troop in West Hazleton said the car, driven by Joseph Staruch, 18, of 1040 Meade Court, Hazleton, was traveling east at about 10:30 p.m. when, for an unknown reason, it slid 150 feet, jumped the curb, and struck and leveled a mailbox owned by Steve Sunder, 122 Middletown Jeddo. It then moved another 45 feet Fishermen found dead in state park By BILL BERRY Standard-Speaker Staff Writer Two fishermen who went to the Hickory Run State Park in Kidder Township Friday for a weekend of fishing were found dead in their cabin-type tent at 1:29 this morning by Kidder Township Cpl. John Dillon.

Trooper Joseph Bogaski of Troop N's Fern Ridge station, who is investigating the deaths of Mark Blasek, 30, of Norristown, Montgomery County, and Gregory A. Taicher, 30, of Philadelphia, said there was no indication of foul play regarding the two deaths. Carbon County Coroner Philip Jeffries of Weatherly ordered the bodies of Blasek and Taicher taken to the Gnaden-Huettin Hospital in Lehighton where autopsies will be conducted later today. Trooper Paul Cutrufello, assigned to the records and identification section at Troop headquarters in West Hazleton, said is appears death was the result of asphyxiation caused by a heating unit inside the double nylor tent. Meanwhile, Bogaski said rela- Embargo (Continued from Page 1) in tense confrontation with the Kremlin, which has alternated between making threats and conciliatory statements.

Palubinskas said Lithuania's factories would be able to function for only about two weeks if Moscow imposed an embargo. He said Ozolas advised his compatriots to rest up, "because this week doesn't promise to be any less hectic but by next weekend we'll be happy by what we've accomplished." Lithuanian officials have acknowledged that an embargo of materials such as oil and gas could cause mass layoffs in the republic of 3.8 million people but said they hoped sympathetic Soviet republics would not cut off crucial supplies. Lines at gas stations in Vilnius were a little longer than usual on Sunday as people reacted to the threat, Palubinskas said. Besides oil and gas, the Baltic republic also depends on the Soviet Union for metal, machinery, chemicals, cotton and automobiles. Standard-Speaker Published Daily Except Sundays and Holidays by Hazleton Standard-Speaker, Inc.

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Dorothy Schell, 120 Middletown Jeddo. The car then continued another 45 feet before it overturned onto its roof, coming to rest in the sideyard of John Woodring, 118 Middletown Jeddo. Staruch and a passenger, Edward Makuta of Freeland, were taken to the emergency department of the Hazleton General Hospital, where Staruch was treated and released. Makuta, according to a hospital spokesman, was not treated. Two other passengers, Dawn LaRock, 16, of Drifton, and Dawn Rossi, 17, of 605 Front Freeland, were taken to the Hazleton-St.

Joseph Medical Center, where they were treated in the ambulatory care unit and Easter (Continued from Page 1) of St. Peter's Basilica. His message on! Lithuania was the latest attempt by the Vatican to help ease tensions between Moscow and the tiny Baltic republic, which declared itself independent on March 11. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, reported that a Soviet envoy received by the Pope on Saturday had delivered a message from President Mikhail S. Gorbachev about the crisis in Lithuania, where four out of five people are Catholic.

The contents of the message were not disclosed. The Vatican in March opened diplomatic relations with Moscow. Earlier this month, the Vatican's newly appointed envoy to the Soviet Union said the Holy See would be willing to mediate the Lithuanian dispute. In his speech, John Paul gave holiday wishes in 55 languages. The longest greetings went to Lithuania and his homeland, Poland.

In Romania on Sunday, tens of thousands of worshipers sang ancient hymns in packed churches across the nation in an emotional celebration of their freest Easter in more than four decades. In Timisoara, where Romania's December revolution began and where some of the worst fighting occurred, Archbishop Nicolae eulogized the martyrs of the revolution in a sermon to 2,000 people. Similar services were held in the two Germanys. released. Personnel from the Freeland Fire Company, Hazle Township Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company and Freeland and Hazleton ambulances assisted troopers at the scene.

Route 940 was closed for about an hour because of the accident. Beauty (Continued from Page 1) tives of the two men contacted police when the victims failed to return home from their fishing trip. Because Kidder Township police are in the immediate area of the park, and because park rangers were not on duty at that time, state police asked that department to go to the park and check out the two men. Bogaski said Dillon found the vehicle used by the victims at 1:22 a.m., and their bodies inside the tent seven minutes later. The investigation into the incident is continuing to ascertain exact cause of the deaths.

Train (Continued from Page 1) The train, which was traveling from Mokammeh to Arrah, is widely used in the mornings by workers commuting to the state capital. More than 10 million people ride Indian trains every day, and major disasters are reported every year. Trains are jammed, with people often riding on the roofs. One of the worst train accidents in recent years occurred in the southern Indian state of Kerala on July 8, 1988, when 103 people died when a train plunged into a lake near Quilon. Two derailments in 1989 claimed 131 lives: 67 near Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh in north central India on April 18 and 64 near Mughalsarai in eastern Bihar on Nov.

1. India's 38,320 miles of tracks form the world's third-largest rail network after those in the Soviet Union and the United States. in the Miss Universe pageant. She took her runner-up status with grace. "I still get to be Miss USA for the year, and I hope to make it the best year possible," Miss Gist said.

The second runner-up, 18- year-old Liseth Mahecha of Colombia, said through a translator, "I'm very happy with the result especially because I put Colombia's name in a prominent place." The 39th Miss Universe pageant was televised live in the United States by CBS. An estimated 500 million viewers worldwide were expected to have tuned in. The contestants, wearing traditional garb of their homelands, opened the pageant by parading in front of a replica of the "Hollywood" sign in a production number done to the strains of "Dancing in the Streets." Other first-place prizes included $66,000 in cash, a luxury Los Angeles apartment for the yearlong reign, a convertible, mink coat and jacket, a gold and diamond watch, and a selection of evening gowns. The winner also gets a 100-inch TV set, a portable video package, cosmetics, clothing and a camera. EASTER FINEST Four-year-old Amanda Bezick, left, and her sister Jennifer, 6, were dressed alike in their Easter outfits complete with white bonnets and white gloves as they attended service with their parents at Welsh Congregational Church, Hazle Village early Sunday morning.

Christians throughout the world attended services celebrating the Resurrection of the Lord. The girls are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bezick, Beaver Brook. Additional Easter scenes are on page 5.

(Photo by Ellen O'Connell).