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Jul 26 2005 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2005 E-5 www.post-gazette.com tosigntheguestbook. BAIRD JANIE(MUENZ) beloveddaughterofthelateJohn alsoprecededindeathbytwosis- detteMuenz.Friendsareinvitedto LEOJ.HENNEYFUNERAL HOME, ww w. leohenneyfuneralhome.com FuneralMassonThursdayinST.Ig- natiusChurchofSt.ElizabethAnn suggestscontributionstoForbes BARRY familyandfriends.Committalser- vi Cemetery.Arrangementsby METRO POLITANCREMATIONSER- VICE, 412-421-1165or800-421-4578. BLOCK MaryKatherineandthelateEliza- neralArrangementsby BEIN- HAUERS, Friendswelcomeat2630 WestLibertyAvenueDormont, (412)531-4000Wednesday2-4and7- 9pm.MassofChristianBurial Thursday11aminChurchoftheRes- urrection.IntermentJeffersonMe- morialPark. Pleaseaddatributeat www.woodrufffamilyservices.com CORTAZZO Wilmerding.Frankwasagraduate ofWestinghouseMemorialHigh School.HeenlistedintheU.S.Coast Guardservinghiscountrythree yearswithanhonarabledischarge.

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tom bmentwillfollowintheMcK- ee sportVersaillesCemeteryMauso- leum.Memorialcontributionsmay bemadetotheFirstUnitedMethod- www.jaycox-jaworskifh.com GAMER gno nofB erofLisaPaulick(StevenBlume), ni eces sisters.VisitationWed.,July27,7- 9pm, DUSTERFUNERALHOME, 347E.10thAve.,Tarentum, W.S.,Natrona.Familysuggestscon- tributionstotheCatholicCharities ofchoice. GILBERT monyTwp.BelovedwifeofArthur; belovedmotherofMichael sisterofJoseph(Dolores)Mihovich of Fr iendsreceivedTuesdayand Cont.onPageE-6 NEWS OBITUARIES LATEST DEATHS ALLEGHENY COUNTY BAIRD Janie Muenz, 66, of Carnegie, died July 24. Leo J. Henney Funeral Home, Carnegie. (CO) BARRY, Adelaide C.

Hohman, of Brookline, died July 13. Metropolitan Cremation Services, Hazelwood. (CO) BLOCK, Regis C. 73, of Brookline, died July 25. Beinhauer Mortuary, Beechview.

(CO) CORTAZZO, Frank J. Sr. 76, of North Versailles, died July 25. Alfieri Funeral Home, Wilmerding. (CO) DONATELLI, Helen Murphy, 98, of Bloomfield, died July 23.

John N. Elachko Funeral Home, Oakland. (CO) DUFFY, Fred G. 82, of McCandless, died July 24. H.P.

Brandt Funeral Home, Ross. FETSICK, Richard T. 55, of North Versailles, died July 24. Patrick T. Lanigan Funeral Home, East Pittsburgh.

(CO) FRAAS Charles 89, of White Oak, died July 24. Jaycox-Jaworski Funeral Home, McKeesport. (CO) GAMER Agnes Lisco, 90, of Harrison, died July 24. Duster Funeral Home, Tarentum. (CO) GOTTRON, Richard C.

67, of North Versailles, died July 22. Alfieri Funeral Home, Wilmerding. (CO) HAWKINS, Marjorie died July 24. Findlay C. Wylie Funeral Home, Penn Hills.

(CO) JOHNSON, Rosemary, 100, formerly of the North Side, died July 22. Samuel E. Coston Funeral Home, East Liberty. KACIN, Stephen R. of Munhall, died June 23.

Savolskis-Wasik-Glenn Funeral Home, Munhall. (CO) KRUPER, Berenice 85, of Bridgeville, formerly of Penn Hills, died July 24. Charles W. Trenz Funeral Home, Penn Hills. LEAVER, Margaret, of Pleasant Hills, died July 23.

Griffith Mortuary, South Park Township. (CO) LEWIS, Edgar Sanders 83, of Edgeworth, died July 24. Funeral Chapel, Sewickley. (CO) LUKASIEWICZ, Loretta Renda, 74, of Lawrenceville, died July 24. Funeral Home, Lawrenceville.

(CO) MACKEY Dorothy 80, of McCandless, died July 24. H.P. Brandt Funeral Home, Ross. (CO) MARTIN, Thomas 52, of Brentwood, died July 24. John F.

Slater Funeral Home, Brentwood. (CO) McCOY, Thomas J. III, 58, of Penn Hills, died July 24. Soxman Funeral Chapel, Penn Hills. (CO) MICHALSKI, Henry L.

66, formerly of Allentown, died July 23. James J. Barry Jr. Funeral Home, Allentown. (CO) NIRO Louise, 68, of Whitehall, died July 23.

Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home, Pleasant Hills. (CO) NISBET, Cecilia Beres, died July 24. Freyvogel-Slater Funeral Home, Bethel Park. (CO) PALM Eugenia Mertel died July 24. Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home, Pleasant Hills, and Wood-Kortight Funeral Home.

(CO) PETRUCCI, Lido 85, of Coraopolis, formerly of Burgettstown, died July 23. Lee Martin Funeral Home, Burgettstown. (CO) PHILLIPS, Thomas 80, of Stowe, died July 23. Stover Funeral Home, McKees Rocks. (CO) REIS, Walter died July 24.

Ralph Schugar Chapel, Shadyside. (CO) REITER, Stephen of Shaler, died July 25. Neely Funeral Home, Shaler. RIZZO, Jason Thomas Natale, 22, of Kennedy, formerly of Moon, died July 22. Schepner-McDermott Funeral Home, Crafton.

(CO) ROESSLER, Betty Jean 80, of Bethel Park, died July 24. David J. Henney Funeral Home, South Park Township. (CO) RUBACKY, Laura 78, of Brighton Heights, died July 24. Orion C.

Pinkerton Funeral Home, Avalon. (CO) SCHAD, Elizabeth 79, of Swissvale, died July 25. Thomas L. Nied Funeral Home, Swissvale. (CO) SCHARF, Margaret, 92, of Pleasant Hills, died July 23.

Griffith Mortuary, South Park Township. SCOTT, Walter C. Jr. of Stanton Heights, died July 22. Spriggs-Watson Funeral Home, Homewood.

(CO) SMITH, Thomas J. 60, of Duquesne, died July 23. Teichart-Gracan Funeral Home, Duquesne. (CO) SWARTZ, Gordon 89, of Mt. Lebanon, died July 23.

Laughlin Memorial Chapel, Mt. Lebanon. (CO) TAYLOR, Howard of the South Side, died July 23. John J. Gmiter Funeral Home, South Side.

(CO) THORNBERRY Betty, of West View, died July 24. Simons Funeral Home, Ross. (CO) TRAVIS, Geraldine, 80, of North Versailles, died July 24. Watts Memorial Chapel, Braddock. (CO) TRUSS, Sheila 56, of Schenley Heights, died July 23.

Samuel J. Jones Funeral Home, Hill District. (CO) VOGEL, Bertrand died July 24. Thomas J. Gmiter Funeral Home, South Side.

(CO) VOGEL, Virginia 69, of Spring Hill, died July 24. Brady Memorial Home, Spring Hill. (CO) WHITE, Ernest, of Wilkinsburg, died July 24. Spriggs-Watson Funeral Home, Homewood. WILLIAMS, Annie 87, of Beltzhoover, died July 23.

Samuel J. Jones Funeral Home, Hill District. BEAVER COUNTY ALEXANDER, Florence 85, formerly of Monaca, died July 23. William Murphy Funeral Home, Rochester Borough. BABIC (BABICH), Matthew, 88, of Aliquippa, died July 24.

MastrofrancescoFuneral Home, Aliquippa. GILBERT, Helen J. of Harmony Township, died July 24. Paul E. Bohn Funeral Home, Ambridge.

(CO) MARKESS, Catherine of Beaver Falls, died July 24. Gabauer Funeral Home, Daugherty. (CO) SHIMRAK, Helen, 84, of Baden, died July 25. John Syka Funeral Home, Ambridge. BUTLER COUNTY LESLIE Esther Helen Koehler, 84, of Slippery Rock Borough, died July 24.

Smith Funeral Home, Slippery Rock Borough. (CO) WASHINGTON COUNTY MARTIN, Samuel A. 78, of Peters, died July 23. Beinhauer Mortuary, Peters. (CO) SOLLON, Louis Michael, 61, of Washington, formerly of Canonsburg, died July 25.

Sollon Funeral Home, Canonsburg. (CO) WESTMORELAND COUNTY CORBIN, Mark 21, of North Huntingdon, died July 24. William Snyder Funeral Home, Irwin. LYSHER, Dorothy 63, of Murrysville, died July 23. Hart Funeral Home, Murrysville.

(CO) McCABE Joseph 86, of North Huntingdon, died July 24. J.F. Ott Funeral Home, Irwin. (CO) MEYER Charlene Ann, 50, of New Kensington, died July 25. Ross G.

Walker Funeral Home, New Kensington. (CO) SADULSKI Diana 49, of New Kensington, died July 24. Ross G. Walker Funeral Home, New Kensington. STANOVICH, Dorothy Bossar, 93, of Export, died July 24, Wolfe-Von Geis Funeral Home, Export.

OTHER CHIZMAR, Veronica, 88, of Black Lick, Indiana County, formerly of Swissvale, died July 24. Wolfe-Von Geis Funeral Home, Export. DUFFEY, Larry, of Blairsville, Indiana County, died July 24. James F. Ferguson Funeral Home, Blairsville.

(CO) GOULD, Betty 84, of Blairsville, Indiana County, died July 22. James F. Ferguson Funeral Home, Blairsville. KASPER Terry 57, of Ocean City, N.J., died July 24. Godfrey Funeral Home, Palermo, N.J.

(CO) LOUGHRY, Raymond, 94, of Blairsville, Indiana County, died July 25. James F. Ferguson Funeral Home, Blairsville. McGIBBNEY, Louise Hunt, 91, of Apopka, formerly of Pittsburgh, died July 23. Loomis Family Funeral Home, Apopka.

PAYNTER, Warren 81, of Bradford, died July 23. Hollenbeck-Cahill Funeral Home. (CO) SEPESY, Janet Kinick, of Uniontown, Fayette County, died July 23. Greenlee Funeral Home, Fredericktown. (CO) SIPPER, Patricia M.

Deet, 81, of Anaheim, formerly of Lawrenceville, died July 24. (CO) VAN ALLEN Leigh Ann, 36, of New York City, formerly of State College, Shadyside, Sewickley and Peters, died July 18. Paul L. Henney Memorial Chapel, Bethel Park. (CO) The comprehensive listings of recent deaths include two types of obituaries.

News obituaries, prepared by our staff, are published at the discretion of our editors. Death notices are paid obituaries prepared by the funeral home directors. To place a death notice, call 412-263-1371. To suggest a news obituary, call 412-2631601. The following list is provided free as a public service.

We accept information for the following list from funeral directors and employees of crematoriums and memorial societies, who may call 412-263-1601 from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. daily. Steelers cornerback, won Super Bowl ring By The Associated Press SODDY-DAISY, Tenn. Ray Oldham, a 10-year NFL corner- back who won a Super Bowl ring with the 1978 Pittsburgh Steelers, has died.

He was 54. Mr. Oldham died Saturday while training for a bicycle ride. Heritage Funeral Home had no other details on his death. He went to Middle Tennessee State from 1969 through 1972 and was a runner-up to Jim Youngblood for Ohio Valley Conference defensive player of the year in 1972.

His league record for longest interception return still stands, a 100-yard return against Chattanooga in 1970. Mr. Oldham was drafted by the Baltimore Colts in 1973 in the eighth round, and he played with the Colts through 1977. He played only one season in Pittsburgh, when the Steel- ers won their third Super Bowl title in January 1979. He joined the New York Giants in 1979 and finished his career with three seasons with the Detroit Lions.

He finished with 14 career interceptions in the NFL, including two returned for touchdowns. His funeral is scheduled for tomorrow at the funeral home. Mr. Oldham is survived by his wife and two children. RAY OLDHAM Editor of Spring Hill community newsletter By Pohla Smith Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Virginia Vogel spent more than 20 years loading lids on cans at H.J.

Heinz but inside her beat the heart of a reporter. After retiring, she put her nose for news to work as editor of the Spring View Times, a quarterly newsletter for the two North Side neighborhoods. Mrs. Vogel, of Spring Hill, died Sunday in Allegheny General Hospital of congestive heart failure, her son, Kenneth said. She was 69.

The newsletter was a product of the Spring Hill Civic League, of which Mrs. Vogel was secretary. It was one of many volunteer duties she did with her husband, Edward C. Vogel who died in 2003. wrote some of the stories.

Other members sent stories to her. She had her own computer and set up a program up for it. It was a lot of Kenneth Vogel said. Page 3, her son added, was Mrs. own to fill as she liked.

were death notices, get well wishes, birthday wishes, happy 50th anniversaries, graduations, goodbyes to friends who had died, congratulations to people who had done something special in the community or those who no longer were in the community but had done something All of the stories were from a positive viewpoint, said Steve Brady, owner of Brady Memorial Home and a member of the board of directors of the Spring Hill Civic League. was very much like a news reporter. She would gather all the information. She was like a sponge. She would just absorb it all.

Her resources were Brady said. a talent to be able to see through the fog and see that detail. She had that her son said. Before her husband died, the couple was so active in the civic league and other volunteer activities that they were honored for community service by the office, Kenneth Vogel said. After her death, her failing health and eyesight mostly limited her to doing the newsletter from home, he added.

Besides Kenneth, of Mount Washington, Mrs. Vogel is survived by two other sons, Edward C. Jr. of Export, and William of Shaler; a sister, Nancy Schubert of Spring Hill; and a brother, William Davis of Ross. She also is survived by nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at Brady Memorial Home, 1151 South Side Spring Hill. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the funeral home. Burial will be in Christ Our Redeemer Cemetery, Spring Hill.

Pohla Smith can be reached at or 412-263-1228. VIRGINIA VOGEL Financier, instrumental in rise of Wal-Mart By Caryn Rousseau The Associated Press Jack Stephens, a financier who built one of the largest investment banking firms off Wall Street and donated millions of dollars to charitable causes, died Saturday He was 81. Mr. Stephens died in Little Rock, after suffering from declining health for some time. He had a mild stroke in 1998 and had been hospitalized for about a month before going home Thursday, said Frank Thomas, a spokesman for the firm Stephens Inc.

Mr. Stephens, along with his brother W.R. Stephens, was one of the richest people in Arkansas. Mr. Stephens gave generously to charity, including $48 million to a spinal institute in Little Rock.

people live to gather riches, but Jack Stephens loved to give away his resources, and instead of leaving wealth, he left a legacy in which he poured vast amounts of his earnings into the Arkansas he loved and Gov. Mike Huckabee said. Mr. Stephens grew up on a farm near Prattsville, during the Depression. He picked cotton before graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1946.

That year he joined the Little Rock investment house Stephens which his brother Witt had started in 1933. Mr. Stephens was chief executive officer in 1970 when the firm underwrote the initial public offering for Sam discount store chain. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is now the largest retailer.

can be no doubt that he was one of the most astute investors in the history of American said Curt Bradbury, chief operating officer of Stephens Inc. In 1962, Mr. Stephens became a member of the Augusta National Golf Club, which hosts the annual Masters tournament. He later served as its fourth chairman from 1991 to 1998. National Golf Club and the Masters tournament have lost a wonderful individual and an outstanding past chairman, and personally I have lost a dear said current Augusta chairman Hootie Johnson, who succeeded Mr.

Stephens. Mr. Stephens gave $48 million to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to establish the Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute He also gave $20.4 million to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for an on-campus special-events center that will include a basketball arena. JACK STEPHENS Bill The 68th Annual Dapper Dan Dinner in 2004 brought the 1979 Super Bowl champions together including Ray Oldham, left, and John Banaszak..