All Obituaries

Dorothy Rock Onufer, 87, of Renfrew, died Friday evening, January 11, 2019, at the V.N.A. Inpatient Hospice. Born September 29, 1931 in Butler, she was a daughter of the late George H. Rock and Mary (Betty) Rock. Dorothy graduated with Honors from Butler High School in 1949. She was a homemaker, was a member of the Meridian Women's Club and St. Michael Greek Catholic Church in Lyndora, where she was also on the Pastor Advisory Council. She had been on the YMCA Board of Directors and...

Margaret “Peg” Glagola, 93, of Butler, died Wednesday, January 9, 2019, at her home. Born April 4, 1925 in Allison, PA, she was a daughter of the late Charles Mucha and Sophia (Hudivok) Mucha. Peg was a graduate from Masontown High School, she then joined the Cadet Nurse Corp and graduated from Uniontown Hospital School of Nursing class of 1947. She had worked at the Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City, was an office Nurse in Park Avenue New York and had retired from Sunnyview...

Bernadette “Tooty” Lokhaiser, 79, of Butler, passed away Tuesday, January 8, 2019, at the V.N.A. Inpatient Hospice. Born December 30, 1939 in Weirton, WV, she was a daughter of the late Peter and Frances Van Jura. Tooty was a Registered Nurse for over 40 years in Butler, first working at the Butler Hospital and then at the Butler VA Medical Center. She was a member of St. Peter Roman Catholic Church in Butler. Tooty also volunteered for Meals on Wheels, the V.N.A. Hospice...

Gertrude F. Zima, 89, of Butler passed away Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at Concordia Lutheran Ministries. Born May 21, 1929 in Lyndora, she was a daughter of the late Frolis and Mary Brovnyak Miklosovic. She was employed by International Staple as a book keeper in the Accounts Receivable Department for 25 years. She had previously worked for Howard Insurance Agency. She was a member of St. Paul Roman Catholic Church in Butler. A former member of Phase II group of St. Peter Roman Catholic...

Marion Joyce Kircher of Butler, suddenly passed away, Saturday December 29, 2018, while at Butler Memorial Hospital.   She was born June 19, 1932 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as the youngest child of Harvey Lecher and Lillian (Kemp). She attended and graduated from Milwaukee North High School and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (1954) with a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education. It was at the University that she met her future husband (Thomas), a three year starter on the...

Ronald P. Collins, 80, of Butler, died Wednesday morning, December 26, 2018, at the Sunnyview Home. Born February 26, 1938 in Butler, he was a son of the late Arthur Collins and Irene (Gillman) Collins. Ron worked at the PARC Workshop and was a member of St. Paul Roman Catholic Church in Butler. He is survived by his 5 siblings; Mary Hoffman of Bellevue, PA; Carol Collins, Susan Friez, Michael Collins and Debra Moran, all of Butler. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by...

Mary Grace (Rizzelli) Weber, of Pittsburgh, formerly of Butler, age 84, passed away peacefully. She was the mother of Russell (Colleen) and Ronald Weber. She was a member of the Penn Township Woman's Club. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Frank Rizzelli. Family and friends will gather at the Geibel Funeral Home, 201 East Cunningham Street, Butler on Saturday from 9:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. A Memorial Mass will be celebrated at 12:00 noon, at St....

Margaret J. Renforth, 81, of Butler passed away Saturday, December 22, 2018 at the VNA Inpatient Hospice in Butler. Born August 27, 1937 in Butler, she was a daughter of the late Edward and Gussie Raimondi Renforth. She was employed at Friedman's Supermarket in the meat departments. She also did volunteer work or the Concordia Visiting Nurses. She enjoyed camping and the outdoors, meeting people from other states, baseball, football, wrestling and card games on the computer. She...

Donna DiGiacomo “Donna D”, 49 of Butler, passed away on Tuesday, December 11, 2018. She was born May 14, 1969 to Marilyn DiGiacomo, also Kathleen DiGiacomo and the late Thomas M. DiGiacomo. Donna is survived by four children, Tara DiGiacomo, Tawsha DiGiacomo-Burk, Tabitha DiGiacomo-Burk, Dante DiGiacomo-Burk and two grandchildren, Maicy Hodgkiss and Trenton Hodgkiss; and several loving brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews. Family and friends will gather on Wednesday, December...

Michael D. Halin 63, of Butler went home to be with our Lord and Savior on Monday December 3, 2018 at his home. He was born on February 14, 1955, in Braddock, PA to the late George Halin Jr., Irene (Bove) Halin Adams and stepfather John C. Adams. Michael graduated from Knoch High School in 1973. Michael was a member of Knoch basketball, golf, and track and was voted ‘Most Popular’ by his classmates. Michael attended Indiana University of PA and graduated from Triangle Tech with...