Stanley Brzuzy’s widow has stroke

Sue Strawderman Brzuzy, widow of the late Monongah native Stanley Brzuzy, suffered a stroke. Her daughter, Fairmont State graduate and FirstEnergy contractor Karla Brzuzy-Trotto, confirmed the doctor’s diagnosis.

Sue will undergo more tests to determine the extent of the damage. Another daughter, Christie Brzuzy-Solheim, has been at Mama's side constantly.

Stanley passed away in 2014. Brother John Brzuzy passed away in Richmond, Indiana in May 2015.

The other siblings are Walter Brzuzy (deceased), Class of 1950; Freda Brzuzy Rogers, Class of 1945; and Stephen Brzuzy of Grassy Run, Fairmont.

They are among the 9 children of Wladyslaw “Walter” and Stephania Zuzak Brzuzy, who immigrated through Ellis Island, New York.

The Brzuzy family owned the PNA Tavern across from Thoburn School in Monongah, the site of many poker games by the coal miners and dancing by Monongah High teens.

That’s where Elaine Hewitt Monell kept showing up because she knew Raymond “Soak” Monell was there. They married and moved to Ohio, where Soak passed away.

Walter passed away in 1986 in Monaca, Pennsylvania, where he lived for 30 years and coached the Monaca American Legion baseball team. He retired from Jones & Laughlin Steel’s blast furnace department.

Walter and wife Ruth Ann Butcher Brzuzy had a son and two daughters.

Stephen’s wife, Eva Blanche “Banny” Hostutler Brzuzy, passed away in 2010.  

When the Brzuzy family moved from Monongah to Country Club Road in Fairmont, John became a star football and basketball player for Fairmont West and was the passing leader for Fairmont State in 1953 and 1954 and the total offense and scoring leader in 1954.