Duane Pasquale Gatto Cumming, Ga. Duane Pasquale Gatto, 88, of Cumming, Ga., passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. He was born in 1931 to the late Peter and Catherine Gatto. He attended Bethelview U...

Justina ‘Jay’ E. Lombardi Santoro Belle Vernon Justina “Jay” E. Lombardi Santoro, 95, of Belle Vernon, passed away Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020, at Monongahela Valley Hospital. Born Dec. 21, 1924, in North ...

Elizabeth Marie “Betty’’ Benedict Hart, 80, of Webster, died Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020, in Greenery Specialty Care Center. Born in Hanover on Aug. 26, 1939, she was the daughter of the late Doig and Mar...

Vernon Majors, 42, Monessen, left this side of life on Dec. 27, 2019. He was the son of Ronald Towler and Beverly Majors. Vernon was a Monessen Greyhound’s football and basketball player and in the Cl...

Norma Ann Reale, 85, of Monongahela, died peacefully on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. A complete obituary will appear in next week’s publication of the Mon Valley Independent. The Frye Funeral Home Inc. is...

Judith A. Ritter, 76, of Finleyville, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020, at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Jefferson Hills Borough. She was born June 27, 1943, in Allenport, daugh...

Katheryn J. Vrabel Booher Star Junction Katheryn J. Vrabel Booher, 72, of Star Junction, peacefully passed away Dec. 30, 2019, at her home with her husband by her side, after a long battle with COPD a...

Albert Oscar Austin Monessen Albert Oscar Austin, 63, of Monessen, went home to be with the Lord on Dec. 29, 2019. He was born in Charleroi on May 31, 1956, a son of the late Oscar Austin and Jennie P...

James Ross Charleroi James Ross, 89, of Charleroi, passed away Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019 in UPMC Mercy Hospital. He was born Jan. 20, 1930, in Monongahela, the son of the late James and Sue Revetta Ross. ...

Mary Pearle Ellenberger Boyd, 102, stepped from this earthly life into her eternal glory on Dec. 30, 2019, at TLC Adult Care Center in West Newton. Mary was born in a little coal mining patch called P...

Shawndel Adair Samoda Muro Belle Vernon Shawndel Adair Samoda Muro, 46, of Belle Vernon, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020, at Monongahela Valley Hospital. Born May 25, 1973, in Mt. Pleasant, she wa...

Ruth Ann Petty Stockdale Ruth Ann Petty, 80, of Stockdale, passed away on Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, at Monongahela Valley Hospital. Born in North Charleroi on June 22, 1939, she was a daughter of Jack an...

Joseph Thomas Robinson, 52, of Monessen, passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019, at his home. He was born on Dec. 26, 1966, in Bronx, N.Y., the son of the late Gene Davis and Marlene Rob...

Alice J. Eichler Orange, Calif., Formerly of Rostraver Township Alice J. Eichler, 99, passed away on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, at Kirkwood Senior Living in Orange, Calif. She was born in East Pittsburg...

Fran Winn, 87, of Virginia Beach, Va., and Fresno, Calif., passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019. Born Frances Marie Blatnik on Nov. 5, 1932, in Fayette City, PA, Fran was a 1950 graduate...

Barbara Alatsis, 80, of Monessen, passed away on Dec. 28, 2019, in the Hallsworth House of Monessen. She was born on Oct. 13, 1939, in Monessen, a daughter of the late Joseph and Frances Milasincic. B...

Louise P. Mandekic, 87 of McKeesport, passed away on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, in UPMC McKeesport.  Born June 21, 1932, in East Pittsburgh, she was a daughter of the late Andrew and Sophia Gorence Zupanc...

William Keith “Butch” Barber Jr., 79, of Twilight, passed away on Dec. 25, 2019, at Monongahela Valley Hospital with his family by his side. Keith was born on Aug. 31, 1940, in North Charleroi, son of...

Suzanne Duda, 67, of Fayette City, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019, in Jefferson Hospital with her family by her side. She was born on Dec. 19, 1952, in Charleroi, the daughter of th...

Elizabeth R. McGowan, 84, of Heath, Ohio, died Dec. 25, 2019, in Chapel Grove Nursing Home. Born in Monessen on Aug. 17, 1935, she was the daughter of the late John and Jean Siarnicki O’Hare. She reti...