Don and Sandy Hostutler. Senior & baby & 78th birthday photos

Catching up with

Grandpa Don Hostutler

Donald Hostutler, Class of 1955, who grew up on Park Avenue across the street from Monongah’s Mount Calvary Cemetery, lives in Pickerington, Ohio with wife Sandy.

They moved from Lancaster, Ohio, where they had two rental homes, to Pickerington, which is east of Columbus and south of I-70.

Don is a Fairmont State graduate a Boeing Company retiree (he was an assembly planning engineer).

He was in the senior class play.

Don’s parents were Paul and Iva Jane Hostutler. Don’s sister is Barbara Hostutler Swisher, Class of 1956, who lives in Delaware, Ohio.

Don's mother, Iva Jane, and Roxy Sayres were sisters. Roxy lived next door to the Olesky family with husband Paul Sayres on Church Street in Monongah when I was a teenager and a WVU student.

At my request, Don provided more information about his family:

“I married a girl from Barrackville and we have 2 children. Our daughter lives in the Pickerington area and our son lived in Westerville, Ohio. Our daughter, Lisa, is married and had 3 children. The oldest daughter is married and has 6 little ones. Her son is married and has 3 little ones and her youngest daughter is at Denison in high school. Our son is married and has 2 children. The boy is a junior in high school and the girl is in 3rd grade. So I have 5 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.”

Barbara Hostutler was in the National Honor Society at Monongah High, in the same group with my sister, Jackie Olesky Straight, Class of 1955, who lives in Rivesville. Barbara was co-editor of the annual newspaper staff.

Barbara’s son, David Swisher, passed away last year in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Eva Blanche “Banny” Hostutler Brzuzy, married to the late Steve Brzuzy, passed away in 2010.