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Sunday. April 15. 1990 The Pittsburgh Press W7 OBITUARIES Rosetta Mikesell The Sliest member of Cokeburg Presbyterian Church, Rosetta Mike-sll, 10t Of Thursday iiij Prebyterjan Medical Center. Washington, -I also was the last of the church's Idiesifl Society' a daughter, Opal edetf Fabiszewski of Cokebure; to grandchildren; six great-grand two great-great grandchildren. FnefiHs will be received from 2 to 45 and? p.m.

today in the Ca-eenlff Funeral Home, 619 Main Bentleyvifle.Vhere services will bif heliit I p.m. tomorrow with the Rev. Edward DeLait officiating. Clark of Sierra Vista, Dorothy Sholos of Chardon, Ohio, and Wilma Janosek of Hopwood, Fayette County, and four grandchildren. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

today in the Yoskovich Funeral Home, 300 S. Vine Carmichaels, where services will be held tomorrow. Burial will be in Monongahela Hill Cemetery, Mapletown. Miss Martin was a member of Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church, Washington. Surviving are a brother, Michael Martin of Washington, and five sisters, Mallie M.

CowelL.Ann M. Evens, Dorothy M. Sauter, Jane M. Bamont and Edith M. Sprowls, all of Washington.

Friends will be received from 1 to 3 and 7 to 9 p.m. today in the Piatt and Barnhill Funeral Home, 420 Locust Washington. A mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church, Washington, with the Rev. Edward Burns as celebrant.

Burial will be in the church cemetery. James Lako James Lako, 79, of Eastlake, Ohio, formerly of Monongahela Township, died Thursday in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. Mr. Lako was a retired employee of Fischer Body of Cleveland. He attended Willoughby, Ohio, Baptist Church.

Surviving are his wife, Sara Jane Sowers Lako; a son, Larry J. of Eastlake; two stepsons, Kenneth Sowers of Beaver Falls and Richard Sowers of Washington; four stepdaughters, Mona Merchante of Mar-ianna, Shirley Newman of Norris-town, Montgomery County, Marjorie Sowers of Canonsburg and Lois Cris-tin of Willowick, Ohio; a brother, John Jr. of Greensboro; four sisters, Ethel Lenz of Genoa, Ohio, Helen McMillan School District custodial staff employee, Monday. William F. Cushey, 82, of Hackett in Union Township, retired coal miner, April 6.

Louis M. Day, 84, of Monongahela, retired employee of American Steel Wire Donora, Tuesday. Margaret Craig Deems, 77, formerly of Denbo in Centerville, home-maker, Thursday. Bertha Ann Eckman, 98, of Clearwater, formerly of Monongahela, homemaker, April 4. Grace Forgie, 90, of Washington, homemaker, April 6.

Louise Stella Gessel, 70, of New Eagle, homemaker, April 5. Bessie B. Jones, 61, of Houston, homemaker, April 7. Mary N. Kania, 89, of Canonsburg, homemaker, Tuesday.

James L. Kelso, 84, of Washington, retired employee of McVehil Plumbing last Sunday. Clarence (Rodge) Kendall, 73, of McDonald, retired coal miner and construction worker, April 5. George Ketish, 74, of Finleyville, retired electrical cable splicer, Tuesday. William D.

Kotyk 78, of Canonsburg, retired employee of the Fort Pitt Bridge Works, April 6. James F. Kreitner, 47, of Denbo in Centerville Borough, former Penn-Dot employee, Wednesday. Don C. Longanecker, 97, of Waynesburg, retired superintendent of Greene County School District, April 6.

Agnes Pagac Lutes, 65, of Richey- ville, retired cook, last Sunday. Irene Beany McCullough, 81, of Claysville, retired secretary for su- Eerintendent of McGuffey School listrict, last Sunday. I Glenn W. McMabon, 49, of Monongahela, former Monongahela police officer, Tuesday. Richard Allen Nichol, 59, of Mc-Keesport, self-employed photographer, April 7.

Joseph John Palmer, 76, of Monongahela, retired employee of Lee Norse Charleroi, April 6. Joseph Pasterchalk, 72, of Meadow Lands, plastic products laborer, last Sunday. Oemente Piscitelli of Monongahela, former owner of The 31 Club, Monongahela, April 6. Albert (Tucker) Reese 50, of Washington, laborer, last Sunday. Wilma K.

Richmond, 51, of Avella, homemaker, April 6. Thelma T. Roberts, 86, of Jefferson Township, retired cafeteria manager for Jefferson-Morgan High School, April 7. Michael Skirpan, 80, of Charleroi, retired coal miner, Wednesday. Hubert P.

Statler, 47, of Spraggs in Whitely Township, PennDot employee, April 7. Edna Ross Titus, 71, of Carmichaels, homemaker, Monday. James H. Wilson 83, of Washington, retired Trinity High School biology teacher, Monday. David Laing Wunderlich, 54, of Donora, first assistant basketball coach of Ringgold School District, April 6.

Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow in the Ferrell Funeral Home, 219 Main Claysville, where services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday with the Revs. Doug Seaman, Meade Lacock and Tyler Barlage officiating. Burial will be in Claysville.

Cemetery. The family suggests that memorial contributions be made to the American Cancer Society. Other deaths Mary Accetturo, 81, of Canonsburg, homemaker, April 7. Anna E. Addis, 82, of Aliquippa, formerly of Canonsburg, homemaker, Monday.

Carl Lee Anderson, 53, of Donegal Township, self-employed home re-modeler, Tuesday. Thomas J. Bartos, 54, of Washington, construction worker, April 6. Homer B. Baxter, 66, of Monongahela, retired employee of West Elizabeth Lumber Wednesday.

David Anthony Bell, 71, of Washington, retired rigger foreman for Jessop Steel Wednesday. Maffeo Botticchio, 73, of Freder-icktown in East Bethlehem Town-. ship, retired coal miner, last Sunday. John R. Calvey, 47, of Bridgeville, formerly of Cecil Township, Canon- Myra IT.

Hodgens Myra Irene Turner Hodgens, 88, of Donegal Township, died Thursday in Washington Hospital. Mrs. Hodgens was a former employee of Taylorstown Telephone Co. and helped her late husband, Wayne, operate the Clover Farms Store in Taylorstown. Mrs.

Hodgens was a member of Taylorstown Christian Church. She was a former member of the Claysville Order of Eastern Star. Surviving are six daughters, Emily Wallace of Shelbyville, Ruth Liberati and Mary Lou Stetson, both of Washington, and Jane Ashmore, Judy Sorrels and Linda Seaman, all of Claysville; a brother, S. Ivan Turner of Lakeland, 19 grandchildren, and 20 jin oeausvuie Margin Laucher I Marvin Laucher, 36, of Nema-cblin iiQDumberland Township, died "Thursday from Injuries suffered in automobile accident Mr. Gaucher was a security Commonwealth Security of Unipntown, Fayette County.

I He was a member of Uniontown matejir Radio Club. Surviving are his mother, Evelyn inniaeham Laucher of Leckrnn iavette Countv his wife Huhnnh Ijilley Gaucher; a son, Marvin II; three daughters, Heather, Melanie and Ajhanda, all at home; and a sister, ilarlen0 Coleman, of Smith-field; Jfy.4t Friends will be received from 2 to 4Sand 7 to 9 p.m. today and from 10 to 11 a.mtomorrow, the hour of services, the Lesako and Martin Funeral Home, 204 Dowlin Carrnicbaels. The Rev. Domenick Sgro will officiate.

tBwi4 will be in Lafayette Memorial, Park, Briar Fayette Cfunty. Florence Martin Sorence Martin of Washington Thursday in Washington Hospi-tjl. She was a retired employee of Fj srnada Inn of Washington. Planning aid sought after fire ByXeslie Rubinkowski mk Jl' wwvtwtl Pittsburgh Press West Alexander officials, plan-hingtffathe borough's future, found themstlvq scrambling last week to tecdej a piepe of its past. Borongh 'council had to resurrect its planning commission founded In M71 'arid inactive' almost since the( to complete ah application for a grant from the state Department of Community Affairs, "IpSt could say we're picking up the again after a long, long time," said Franklin Minor, borough secretary.

The borough is applying for a state Planning Assistance Grant, a program that provides up to $4,000 for taring-a consultant to plot future growth. This bid for funding represent West Alexander's first step in a redevelopment drive born after a fireui its district March 14. i TJe fire destroyed three shops and damaged two others. It also stirred shojjkeepers and council members to improve the borough while they replace its loss. The deadline for the grant application jjeas Friday.

A week before the Application was due, officials werf reviewing requirements for filing it and realized they had all of then but one: an active planning cbrrwHisfiion, which was to cast a voteTStlpporting the measure. This was a problem. The council commission, but it wis hardly active. In fact, it hadn't ft in at least 15 years. was formed in 1971 as part of I 64cGuffey Regional Planning Commission, Minor said.

Nine communities in the McGuffey Area School District had joined to compile a master plan for long-term growth. Som3proposals in the plan, such a fjvater service, were carried out, Mjnor Others, such as a park fj; West Alexander, never came Ufreugh. CThere didn't seem to be too much interest in getting it all done," Minor said. "Also, you were faced with considerable costs on implementing iWpf it. So everything just sort of went by the wayside." ffMjflQT even remember the exact date of the last planning commission; meeting he attended, though he, knows it was in the early '70s.

The iiiiir members now "are inactive, ftp -one reason or another." feoncil had' to think fast. It. had already 'Called an emergency meet-iifrtfl Jp out the application, so it qficklyspread the word that it also ffCto form a new planning cfmmission. iJv I' "liSok a lot of phone calls," said council president. t'm had? to convince people this Sv isn't just a normal meeting.

We to do. this." Thos who attended set up a new ci rftrrtision made up of Salsbury, mncilwoman Barbara Mounts, resit efots and business owners, who cast tlfeir to approve the The also voted its i jC the grant does come through, ttfeiplanning commission will have a rnoffactive role than its predecessor. i 1 H3 BAYS ON 11! I mM IklB FINANCING ARRANGED EXTRA DISCOUNTS FOR I CASH CARRY! MC-VISA, CASH APPROVED' I I SC BB: CHECKS, FINANCING ARRANGED I HOURS: lii'SSSSsffl'''S-': cmlolSios "I 1 Sat. ATS Bi3.iiXl I WXU i WJgU F.Q-R-E-V-E-R! LuwMMiMuitmiiiiwiuM mmmMmmni inm.