Guy Edwin Matheny – Greensburg, Pa.
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Guy Edwin Matheny, Greensburg, Pa, was born at home on Park Avenue in Monongahela in 1932. He passed away April 5, 2024. He was the son of the late Guy Emanuel and Dolly Verna Malone Matheny. Ed was formerly employed by West Penn Power Company, joining them as a ball mill operator at Mitchell Power Plant, working in commercial accounts as a sales and customer service representative and retiring as a lobbyist for the company in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C. In his younger days, Ed had a wide and varied work history and remembered all his jobs fondly. He delivered the Sun Telegraph, Pittsburgh Press and Post Gazette. He also worked as a rural mail carrier, a soda jerk in Miller’s Drug Store, a coal plant weighmaster and as a laborer in a glass house for Mississippi Glass. In the late 1960s and ’70s Ed hobby farmed the former Pete and George Beck farms in Carroll Township. Ed was a passionate and selfless contributor to many public and private service organizations in the Mon Valley. He served as president of Monongahela Memorial Hospital and spearheaded the merger of Monongahela Memorial and Charleroi-Monessen Hospitals and the subsequent construction of the new Mon Valley Hospital. He served on a number of other boards, including the Monongahela Cemetery Association, Monongahela Planning Commission, Monongahela Chamber of Commerce and as the Mon Valley representative to the Port Authority of Allegheny County. Ed was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed boating, camping, hunting and fishing with his family and friends. He served for several years as a Boating Advisory Board member to the Pennsylvania Fish Commission. Ed was known as “The Nutty Irishman” to some of his friends, and with his wife Doris traveled extensively around the United States as a supporting member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America, where they served up friendship and frivolity at his Nutty Irishman bashes. Ed was also a proud sponsor and major supporter for many years of Troop 405, Boy Scouts of America, in South Greensburg, Pa. He was a proud 32nd Degree Freemason, Shriner and a plural member of Charleroi- Monongahela Lodge No. 337 and Loyalhanna Lodge No. 275 in Latrobe. Some of his favorite memories were of the monthly meetings, block parties and camping trips taken with the Neighborhood Boys Club of Monongahela. In addition to the above, Ed belonged at various times to Scullton Rod & Gun Club, Keystone Rod & Gun Club, Maple Leaf Rod & Gun Club, Salisbury Elk Lick Hunting Club and was a founding charter member of Camp Overkill in Somerset County. A lover of all things family, he enjoyed trips to the annual Matheny family reunion in Pleasants County, W.Va., where he participated in trading tall tales, swapping stories and reminiscing with all of his West Virginia relatives. Ed is survived by his loving and dedicated wife of 66 years, Doris Matheny (née Laughland); son, David Matheny (Nancy); daughters, Lori Carlson (John) and Joan Murray (Mark); six grandchildren, Christopher Carlson (Amanda), Katie Freeman (Chris), Sara Yelinek (Jimmy), Emily McGee (Josh), Andy Matheny and Janista Harter (Josh); 12 great-grandchildren, Alanna, Lily, Carter, Austin, Landon, Vivian, Mia, Camdon, Bennett, Wrenley, Emersyn, Claire and one more on the way in September. He is also survived by his sisters, Verna Jeanne Marriott and Lona Hodson. He was preceded in death by his sister, Ila Ford; and infant brother, Richard. Services will be private with immediate family in attendance. Arrangements are being handled by Lopatich-Brinker Funeral Home, LLC, 601 Weldon St., Latrobe. To sign the online guest book, send condolences, or share a story, please visit www.lopatichbrinker.com.
