Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 11

4 MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1951- PITTSBURGH -GAZETTE: James Wylie, Wilkinsburg Banker, Dies Was Former Member Of School Board And State Legislature Funeral services for James Renwick Wylie, 89, former Wilkinsburg banker and state legislator, will be held at 2 p. m. today in the T. D. Turner Funeral Home, 729 Wallace Avenue, Wilkinsburg.

Mr. Wylie died Friday in his home, 424 Whitney Avenue, Wilkinsburg. Born in Elizabeth Township, he had been a of Wilkinsburg for the years. resident, Shortly after he came to Wilkinsburg he established the Wilkinsburg Trust Company which later united with the Central National Bank. After another merger the became the present First Nattional Bank at Wilkinsburg.

Aside from his banking activities, Mr. Wylie served on the school board from 1906 until 1922 and in the state legislature from 1913 until 1916. He was a member of the Ses. sion byterian of the Church Second of United Wilkinsburg; Pres- the Pennsylvania Society; Masonic Organizations; the Wilkinsburg Rotary, and the Edgewood Country Club. Surviving are two sons, James and John two daughters, Mrs.

Margaret Megahan, and Mrs. Mary Wilson; two brothers. S. John and B. E.

Wylie; 11 grandchildren and one greatgrandson. Burial will be in Homewood Cemetery. SCHANEY SERVICES Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret E. Heckler Schaney, 70, will be held from the Minerd Funeral Home, Uniontown, on Tuesday at 2 p.

m. The Reverend John V. Berger will officiate, and burial will be in the Sylvan Heights Cemetery. Mrs. Schaney, a former resident of the Northside, died unexpectedly Saturday at her Evans Manor home in Uniontown.

Surviving are her husband, Rudolph C. Schaney; a son, Clinton C. of Uniontown; a sister, Mrs. Ada Hall of Pittsburgh, and four grandchildren. BOOTH SERVICES Funeral services for Thomas F.

Booth, 76, of 6 North Avenue, Northside, will be held Tuesday at 2 p. m. from Aeberli's Chapel, East North Avenue and Sandusky Street. Burial will be in Union Dale Cemetery. The Islam Grotto, of which Mr.

Booth was band president, will hold services tonight at 8 o'clock. He was a member of Ionic Lodge, F. A. Allegheny Commandery No. 35, Knights Templar; Syria Shrine; Masonic Veterans Association; Islam Grotto; Musicians Local 60, and Washington Infantry.

There are no survivors. GEORGE T. ST. CLAIR George T. St.

Clair, 30, an in-2 terior decorator and art teacher, died Saturday night of ailment after he collapsed on the street while walking to his home, 454 Hallock Street, Mt. Washington. Following art study at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Institute of Technology, Mr. St. Clair was engaged in the interior decorating business before he became an instructor at the Ad Art Studios, Bessemer A native of Pittsburgh, he was a member of the Associated Artists for 10 years.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Anna Bell Stover St. Clair; two sons, Ronald and Timothy; a daughter, Georgia Ann St. Clair; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

George W. St. Clair, and a brother, James A. St. Clair.

Friends will be received at William Slater and Sons, Virginia Avenue and Kearsarge Street, Mt. Washington, where services will be held on Wednesday at 2 p. m. Burial will be in O'LEARY SERVICES Requiem high mass for Frederick O'Leary will be held at noon tomorrow in St. Paul's Cathedral.

Mr. O'Leary, retired member of the Allegheny County Planning Commission, died Saturday in his home on Elfinwild Road, Allison Park. The son of the late Timothy J. and Eleanor Ulam O'Leary, Mr. O'Leary attended the University of Ottawa, Canada.

After serving 23 years with the Planning Commission, he was associated with George S. Richardson as a consulting engineer. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Grace Barr O'Leary; seven daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Murto of Washington, Mrs.

Elizabeth Millward, Jeanne, Carole, Patricia, Gertrude and Eleanor O'Leary; five sons, Fred T. of Ponca City, Francis, Richard, Joseph and Timothy, and a brother, Lyman C. O'Leary, as well as 10 grandchildren. Friends are being received at H. Samson's, 537 Neville Street.

Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, Pine Creek, Glenshaw. SWEITZER SERVICES Friends are being received at the E. B. Laughlin Funeral Home, 3310 West Liberty Avenue, where funeral services will be held Tuesday at 11 a.

m. for Miss Carrie Sweitzer, who died Friday in South Side Hospital. A resident of Carnegie for the past 35 years, Miss Sweitzer lived at 212 Midland Avenue. She is survived by two brothers, George r'. Charles H.

Sweitzer, and one sister, Mrs. Bertha Borneman. Burial will be in Chartiers Cemetery. OBITUARIES ES McLEIGH SERVICES Solemn high mass of requiem will be sung in St. William's Church, East Pittsburgh, Wednesday McLeigh, at 10 a.

North m. for Braddock Patrick gess, who died of a heart troit, and one grandchild. Burial will be in the family plot in Saturday night in his home. Burgess McLeigh, 60, resided at 1644 Grandview, served Avenue, as North burgess Brad- for 14 years, was employed by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and was formerly in the county mercantile tax office. Friends are being received at the Lanigan Funeral Home, 700 Linden Avenue, Pittsburgh.

Surviving are McLeigh's Bast. wife Ann Kingston McLeigh; one son, John; a daughter, Mrs. LaVerne Holt; three sisters, Mrs. Ann Pheir, Duquesne, Mrs. Frank Shaughnessy, Pittsburgh, and Mrs.

Josephine Fiedor, Forest Hills; two step-brothers, Aloysious Arthurs, of Turtle Creek, and John Arthurs, of De- Braddock Catholic Cemetery. COLLINS SERVICES High mass will be sung Wednesday morning in St. Mary's Catholic St. Clairsville, for the late P. Collins, who churches died Saturday evening in the Martins Ferry, Hospital.

The body will be brought to St. Ann's Cemetery, Castle Shannon, burial at about noon. Mr. Collins, general manager of the Warner Collins Coal Company, is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Kelly Collins of 192 East Main Street, St.

Clairsville. Also surviving are four sons, James Charles John and Francis C. Collins, all of Pittsburgh; daughters, Mrs. Catherine Kuran of Pittsburgh, Mrs. Alice Mathias of Erie, Mrs.

Carmille Kalmon A Handel Almeda, of St. and Clairsville; Mrs. Mercedes ters, Mrs. Anna Huston of Charleroi, and Mrs. Catherine Joyce St.

Mary, one brother, Cliff Collins of Library; 23 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. THOMAS SERVICES Funeral services for Donald E. Thomas, drowned on August 13, only several days after the start of a Bermuda honeymoon, will be held today at 2:30 in the hauer Mortuary, 2630 West Liberty Avenue. An Air Corps veteran and June graduate of the University of Pitsburgh, Mr. Thomas, 24, had married his colsweetheart, the former Nancy Jean Heck, four days before his death.

He had been employed in the finance department of the Peoples First National Bank and Trust Company. Burial today will be in Mt. Lebanon Cemetery. Surviving, are his widow, his and David L. Thomas of Mt.

Lebanon, land a brother, David Lee Thomas. NORTH SERVICES Services for Don F. North, 56. 622 Royce Avenue, Mt. Lebanon, will be Tuesday at p.

from the E. B. Laughlin Funeral 3310 West Liberty Avenue. Home, Burial will in Allegheny County Memorial Park. Mr.

North, who died early Saturday morning in St. Joseph Hospital, was employed by the Hercules Powder Co. for the past 26 years. An engineer and consultant in explosives, he held B.S. and M.S.

degrees from Penn State. Surviving are his wife, Gladys Burbank North; a son, F. his mother, Avanella Fulton North of Mt. Pleasant, and D. Curt North of Mt.

Pleasant. SPEER SERVICES bur- Funeral services Speer, former dustrial education Mr. Speer Mr. Speer for Joseph director of inin the city schools, will be held at his residence, 36 N. Howard Belle vue, on Tuesday at 10:30 a.

m. Burial will be in Union Cemetery. Mr. Speer, 84, died at his home Saturday afternoon. He was the husband of the late Frederick Speer and is by a Christie; daughter, a Mrs.

brother, claude Speer; three grandchildren, Maude survived Speer M. and one great-grandchild. HAROLD PETERSON Funeral services for Harold Peterson, of 30 Miller Street, Rankin, a 1935 Pitt graduate, will be held at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Joseph N.

Funeral Home, 7441 Washington Street, Swissvale. Burial will be in Akron, O. Mr. Peterson died unexpectedly Saturday at his home. He was employed at the Westinghouse Electric Supply Company, A member of the of the Rankin Christian he was a staff fellowship, sergeant during World War II, and served as a radioman in the Tenth Air Force in the ChinaBurma Theater.

Surviving his widow, Mrs. Mildred Sticer Peterson; his father, John P. Peterson; two sisters, Mrs. Lilly Dahlstrom and Mrs. Florence W.

Earnest, and a brother, Walter Peterson: Friends are bereceived at the funeral home. DANFORTH SERVICES Funeral services for Irving Wilkins Danforth, 56, Pittsburgh businessman and civic leader, will take place at 2 p. m. in Shadyside Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Homewood Cemetery.

Death came Friday Hospital after a three-month illness. Mr. Bein-Danforth, owner of the Danforth Company, county distributor for Westinghouse Electric Corporation, had been active in the Republican Party and many civic and groups. Surviving are Elizabeth Nicola charitable. Danforth; two sons, Robert, San Francisco attorney and Richard William, Pittsburgh, and three sisters, Mrs.

Fred Hickok and Clifton Wyman, both of Cleveland, and Mrs. Peregrine Acland of Toronto, Canada. MEYERS SERVICES Services for Michael Meyers, 78. of 2305 Vondera Street, Munhall, will be held today at 2 p. m.

in the Gillen Coulter Funeral Home, 319 East Ninth Avenue, Homestead. Burial will be in the Homestead Cemetery. Mr. Meyers, retired employe of the Homestead Steel Works, died Friday, after a long illness. He was the husband of the late Mrs.

Bertha Gossett Meyers. Survivors include their daughter, Mrs. Charles Caddy, Munhall; a son, Gale of Pittsburgh; Mr. Meyers' sister, Mrs. Amelia Vogel of Charleston, W.

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