Cora Fazio, who runs Fazio Eldercare in
Stony Lonesome, is taking her husband, David Fazio, Monongah grad, to
Edgewater, Florida for his birthday. David would be close enough to hear NASCAR
noise from Daytona Speedway.
In checking Cora’s Facebook page later, I saw where
they were taking photos in St. Augustine and New Smyrna, Florida.
As for Cora, she wants to travel to Poland
to where her relatives, and David’s, were born.
David’s grandfather, who also was my
grandfather, is Martin Olesky of Walnut Street and later across the street on
Pike Avenue in Monongah. Martin – born Marzcin Oleksy (yes, Ellis Island spelled his name wrong,
too; in fact, gave all five children different spellings of their last name) – began
life in Mogilno, Poland. That’s kind of north and maybe north by northeast of
Krakow.
David – whose mother, Frances Olesky Fazio,
married to Renzy Fazio, was the sister of my dad, John W. Olesky, Sr. -- is
among a host of November Monongah High Alumni births.
There is, for example – ahem! – me. John
Olesky, Class of 1950, who lives in Tallmadge, Ohio and runs this Monongah High
Alumni blog, will celebrate still being alive on Nov. 5.
And there’s Tom Dean, Class of 1949, who rode the Mangino truck with the Monongah High football team with me (I was only a manager; none of that getting whacked for me). Tom lives in Altavista, Virginia when he
isn’t in the Carolinas (the one in the south, not the one next to Idamay) with
his family.
You can wish David Fazio a happy birthday
by going on Cora Fazio’s Facebook page. You can email Tom at tom.dean@mac.com and John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com or go to John’s Facebook
page.
Monongah High Alumni birthdays for all 12 months:
If your name is not on this list, email John Olesky
at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com with your full name, including maiden name,
your birthday date, your graduation year and your current hometown.
November
1 – Tom Dean, Class of 1949
5 – John Olesky, Class of 1950
10 – Tony Orsini, Class of 1946
14 – Ann Marie Mascak Davis, Class of
1955
19 – Jim Weaver, Class of 1948
20—Hellen Snider Carpenter, Class of
1950
20 – Kathryn Toothman Crim, Class of
1950
23 -- Antheai Justice Turner, North Marion 1982
25 – Gerald Nelson Hartley, Class of
1955
December
2 – Adam Michna, 1980 North Marion
graduate
4 – Ronald Pearse, Classs of 1961
5 – Duane Harbert, Class of 1951
8 – Brenda Urban, Class of 1971
13 – Otis “Sarge” Shaver, Class of
1948
22 – Frances Wimer Miller, Class of
1951
January
6 – Jeanette Barr Baczuk, Class of
1940
13 – Beatrice Salisbury Mills, Class
of 1951
17 – Susan Colaneri Monell, Class of
1949
18 – Arlene Marteney Decker Edgell,
Class of 1951
?? – Marie Bee Zwiegel, Class of 1951
18 – Bertha Pazdric Sullivan, Class
of 1954
18 – Greg Vandetta, Monongah mayor,
husband of Debbie Manzo Vandetta, Class of 1973
19 – Joe Martin, Class of 1957
19 – Joann Thompson, Class of 1962
22 – Jo-Jo DeMary of Monongah, who
lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee and is married to Yvonne King DeMary
24 – Marcia Michalski Westfall, Class
of 1974
24 – Mark “Hooch” Aldridge, Class of
1973
29 – Kitty Ahouse Morrison, Class of
1968
February
1 – Debra Manzo Vandetta, Class of
1973
2 – Sylvia Edwards, Monongah grad
living in Idamay
3 – Debbie Weaver Hurley, Monongah
grad living in Monongah with husband Milton Hurley
3 – Rebecca Urish Anderson, Class of
1971
8 – Tom Fleming, Monongah grad living
in Bridgeport
9 – Bob Nichols, Class of 1964
10 – Bonnie Nicholson Moats, Class of
1960
11—Linda Renay Hess Postlethwait,
Class of 1968
15 – Jerry Koloskie, Class of 1975
17 – Larry “Danny” Eates, Class of
1970
18 – Mark Tarley, North Marion grad
20 – Harold Dean Kniceley, Class of
1960
21 – Eva Huey Jarvis, Class of 1975
24 – Mary Kelly, Monongah & North
Marion
29 – Betty Sikinow Cunningham, Class
of 1954
March
5 – Phil Colanero, Jr., Class of 1963
5 -- Doris Carpenter Rogers, Class of 1971
6 – Karen Fitzwater Pausch, Class of
1961
9 – Richie Basagic, Class of
1975
9 – Brian Evans, Monongah graduate
married to Patty DeMary Evans
11 – Benny C. Morgan, Class of 1948
15 – Donna Colvert Davis, Class of
1961, married to 1958 MHS grad Bill Davis
22 – David Haines, Class of 1964
25 – Sandy Cook, Class of 1959
25 – Richard Fitzwater, Monongah graduate
April
4 – Charlotte Walker Cahill, Class of
1954
9 – Paula “P.J.” Hickman, North
Marion 1983
11 – Leo Kubiet, Class of 1942
12 – Linda Sawyer Duckworth, Class of
1966
14 – Lyla Cosner Howell, Class of
1958
16 – Becky Shelosky Carvillano, Class
of 1961
30 – Shirley Knight Ritterhouse,
Class of 1954
May
4 – Freddie Jane Colosino Villers,
Class of 1964
5 – Frank Franze, Class of 1950
6 – Jerry Loss, Class of 1956
12 – Arlene Kitchin, main squeeze of
Joe Martin, Class of 1957
14 – Donna Post Swiger, Class of 1955
14 – Mike Jurasko, Class of 1957
14 – Virginia Belle Littleton Curtis,
Class of 1957
17 – Colette Stanley Melton, Class of
1970
20 – Linda Tomlinson Stevenski, Class
of 1955
21 – June Paxton Rogers, Class of
1948
27 – Ed Graffius, Class of 1971
28 – Terri Orsini Saye, Class of 1972
June
1 – Parma Kay Fetty, Class of 1973
3 – Jim Birdsell, North Marion grad
from Monongah; married to Angela
7 – Kenneth Kincaid, Class of 1968
8 – John Koloskie, Jr., Class of 1944
8 – Pat Slovekosky Morris, Class of
1970
13 – C.L. “Roy” Parker II, North
Marion Class of 1982
13 – Rick Morrison, son of Kitty
Ahouse Morrison, Class of 1968
14 – Pamela Bombardiere, Monongah
grad
14 – Regina McCoy Murphy, Class of
1973
17 – Delmas Gene Hartley, Class of
1979
17 – Dennis Jones, Class of 1954
23 – Ramona Fullen Michalski, Class
of 1949
23 – Kathryn Manuel Marshall, Class
of 1960
23 – Ron Manzo, Monongah grad
23 – Frankie Vandetta, North Marion
grad
July
3 – Susan Ahouse Schrader, Class of
1971
4 – Bob Fox, Class of 1948
4 – Barbara Fleming Marsh, Class of
1947
5 – David Gowers, Class of 1971
5 – Bill Meredith, Class of 1957
7 – Alex Fazio Huff, North Marion
2005 grad
14 – Ted Nagel, Class of 1954
14 – Bentley Evans, Class of 1978
18 – Larry Zickefoose, Class of 1968
21 – Robin Huffman Satterfield, Class
of 1973
16 – Jean Nagel Viglianco, Class of
1949
19 – Jane Pritchard Moore, Class of
1975
29 – Pete Basagic, Class of 1972
August
1 – Kim DeMary Clowers, Class of 1979
3 – (Agnes) Jean Larry DiLaura, Class
of 1950
5 – Penny Delovich, Monongah graduate
7 – Dorie Mike Whetsell, Monongah
graduate
9 – Paula Kerns Fazio, Class of 1979
12 – Angelo Catania, Class of 1943
16 – Debby Morrison Harden, Class of
1966
18 – Jim McDaniel, Class of 1960
18 – John Fazio, Class of 1970
19 – Greg Postlethwait, Class of 1964
19 – Barbra Eller-Hanning, Monongah
grad
20 – Irene Fazio Preolitti, Class of
1966
20 – Connie Warash, Monongah grad
29– Pat Meredith Wills, Class of 1950
30 – Beth Pritchard Brooks, Class of
1978
30 – David Harbert of Idamay, Farmington
grad
6 – Dave Domico of Monongah, Fairmont
West grad married to Andrea Justice Domico
7 – Mary Louise Orsini, Class of 1948
(honorary)
7 – Phillis Tarley, North Marion grad
from Idamay living in Fairmont
8 – Fred Moorehead, Class of 1964
8 – Jackie Olesky Straight, Class of
1955
13 – Karen Manzo, Class of 1974
14 – Suzanne Barr Loss, Class of 1948
14 – Jim Shaver, Class of 1954
15 – Bettie Hensley Lowther, Class of
1948
17 – Patti DeMary Evans, Class of
1972
20 – Greg Patrick, Class of 1970
23 – Sally Wood Tarley, Class of 1959
24 – Joe Fazio, Class of 1974
25 – Marylee Hertzog Gwinn, Class of
1948
25 – Jim Davis, Class of 1964
26 – Nathaleen Cameon Oliverio, Class
of 1948
27 -- Bonita Lavencheck Waybright,
Class of 1968
29 – Dietta Harden Goush, Class of
1959
October
7 – Sherry McIntire, Class of 1975
8 – Valerie Vandetta Aldridge, Class
of 1973
9 – Mary Frances Miller Myers, Class
of 1951
11 – Felix Colisino, Class of 1947
11 – Jay Holman, Class of 1971
12 – Brenda Manzo, wife of Danny
Manzo, Class of 1957
20 – Leona “Duckles” Davis Schooley,
Class of 1953
21 – Dorman Keith Beckner, Class of
1942
21 – Ken Slovekosky, Gilmer County
High Class of 1976.
26 – Lori Hawkins Ice, Fairmont East
graduate living in Carolina
29 – Robert Boydoh, Class of 1956
31 – Patty Steele McCombs, Fairmont
East graduate who lives in Monongah
