Jim Pulice, Greg Patrick, John Hall, Donna Trickett, Ron Yanero

VOCan’t break up this ol’ gang of mine UO

The Beatles broke up, but the Jenna Won’t Sing Band, #1 in Monongah, doesn’t let Ron Yanero’s recovering from a stroke at Pierpoint medical facility keep them apart, even if Yoko Ono shows up.

John Hall joined Greg Patrick and Jim Pulice with Ron.

Ron’s Jenna bandmates have Lions blood: Greg, Class of 1970, social studies teacher at Fairmont Catholic School, after 37 years at Miller Junior High and West Fairmont Middle School; and Jim, Class of 1969, retired Monongah Middle School principal and son of Jim Pulice, Class of 1948. Jim’s son, Eric Pulice, also is part of the Jenna band.

Pamm Yanero Bragg, Class of 1969, describes Ron as her cousin.

Pam’s father was Fred Yanero, who had the two-story house on Pike Street Extension on my way to the Mill Fall home of my uncle, Frank Loss, and my aunt, Gezala Futten Loss, to pick up milk.

 

Arnold Loss and wife Suzanne Barr Loss, Class of 1948, bought the farm from Frank and Gezala. All four are deceased.

Pam is first cousin to Frank Yanero, Class of 1964; Rick Yanero, Class of 1971; Chris Yanero, Class of 1971; and Kim Yanero, Class of 1974.

Through her dad, Pam is second cousin to Jerry Koloskie, Class of 1975, University of Albany (in New York) deputy athletic director.

Fred was the uncle of Jerry’s mother, Julia Monell Koloskie, Class of 1944, John Koloskie, Jr.’s late wife.

Don and Ron Evans are Pam’s second cousins.

Monongah’s Becky Edgell Long passes away

Monongah’s Becky Edgell Long passed away Saturday, February 27.

Her parents were William and Alberta Harold Edgell, but I don’t see a link to Okla “Okey” Edgell, Class of 1944, whose parents were Ray and Lucy Cain Edgell.

Becky’s sister is Georgie Edgell Spurling of Indiana.

The siblings of Okey, who played football at Monongah High, were Lillieray May “Pickle” Edgell Hall, Jeanette J. Edgell Lane, Doak Edgell and James Edgell.

Becky’s obituary:

Rebecca Becky Long

·       BORN: May 3, 1951

·       DIED: February 27, 2016

·       LOCATION: Fairmont, West Virginia

Rebecca "Becky" Edgell Long

Rebecca "Becky" Harris Long, 64, of Monongah passed away on Saturday, February 27, 2016 at United Hospital Center in Bridgeport. She was born in Marion County on August 3, 1951 a daughter of the late William and Alberta Harold Edgell.

She was a loving homemaker. She had a special love for children and was always looking after children. She had recently adopted Aleah Cottinham, Alayah Hall and Neveah Hall.

She is survived by three daughters Rebecca Burton of Fairmont, Leah Edgell of Fairmont, and Georgenna Long of Fairmont; one stepson Tommy Long of Pennsylvania; on stepdaughter Nancy; one sister Georgie Spurling of Indiana; 9 grandchildren, nineteen great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.

In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her beloved husband Tom David Long; a son-in-law Brian Edgell and two great grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Carpenter and Ford Funeral Home, 209 Merchant Street on Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

A Funeral Service will be at Carpenter and Ford Funeral Home on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. with Pastor David Huckins officiating. Burial will follow at Martin Cemetery.

Online condolences may be left for the family at www.carpenterandford.com  

Lions March into their birthdays

 

March certainly has an impressive pride of Lions on the birthdays list.

Donna Davis

Such as:

Donna Colvert Davis, Class of 1961, married to 1958 MHS grad Bill Davis, who keeps the Monongah High Alumni Reunion humming by handling the dinner-dance reservations.

Doris Carpenter Rogers, Class of 1971, who lives in Charleston with husband Scott Rogers.

Phil Colanero, Jr., Class of 1963, who lives in Morgantown with Betty Hanlin and is the son of a member of the unbeaten 1940 Monongah High football team.

Doris Rogers

Richie Basagic, Class of 1975, whose father, Richard Basagic, Class of 1948, rode on Phil Mangino’s truck with me as it transported the Monongah High football team. Richard played; I was the team manager.

Benn Morgan, Class of 1948, who is a genius at the organ of the Old Durham Church in Maryland. He would love to play the St. Stephen's Cathedral organ in Passau, Germany, the world's largest pipe organ in the world. Paula and I were there and the music comes at you from the left, the right, behind, in front and above through the ceiling. It was an awesomee psunami of organ music.

There’s another March Lion birthday girl that I see often: Sandy Weils Shaffer Cook, Class of 1959, at Monongah High Alumni reunions in Sarasota and Punta Gorda, Florida and in Mountaineer Field in Section 107.

Doris’ parents were Bill Carpenter and Iris Delores Martin Carpenter, Class of 1950, my graduation year.

 

Sandy Cook

Doris’ siblings are Will Carpenter, Class of 1975 and a Marion County teacher since 1975 who lives in Fairmont; and Amy Carpenter.

Monongah High has had many Carpenters walking its hallways:

 

Genevieve Elutrio Carpenter, Class of 1945.

Hellen Snider Carpenter, Class of 1950, who lives in Cottageville, West Virginia.

Debra Urish Carpenter, Class of 1969.

Jim Carpenter, Class of 1970.

Mary Carpenter Evans, Class of 1970.

 

A Lion’s roar to the MHS birthday boys and girls.

 

 

If your name isn’t on the MHS alumni birthdays list, email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com with the birthday date, your graduation year and your current hometown and I’ll add you to the list.

 

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 – Benn Morgan, Class of 1948

 

15 – Donna Colvert Davis, Class of 1961, married to 1958 MHS grad Bill Davis

 

15 – Clarence William “Bill” Woods, Class of 1952

18 – Nancy Davidson Kantura, Class of 1955

22 – David Haines, Class of 1964

 

25 – Sandy Weils Cook, Class of 1959

 

25 – Richard Fitzwater, Monongah graduate

 

28 – Josephine Popovich Jones, Class of 1952

 

April

 

 

 

4 – Charlotte Walker Cahill, Class of 1954

 

5 – Bernie Fullen, Class of 1963

 

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

 

29 – John Woods, Class of 1957

 

30 – Dave Westfall, Class of 1948 

 

 

 

June

 

1 – Parma Kay Fetty, Class of 1973

 

3 – Jim Birdsell, North Marion grad from Monongah; married to Angela

 

5 – Ann “Peaches” DeMary

 

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 Morrison Bombardiere, Class of 1967

 

14 – Regina Levelle Humphrey, Class of 1973

 

14 – Regina McCoy Murphy, Class of 1973

 

17 – Delmas Gene Hartley, Class of 1979

 

17 – Dennis Jones, Class of 1954

 

20 – Shirley Ann Woods Merchant, Class of 1953

 

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 – 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

 

10 – Mary Fleming Toothman, Class of 1960

 

14 – Ted Nagel, Class of 1954

 

14 – Bentley Evans, Class of 1978

 

18 – Larry Zickefoose, Class of 1968

 

20 – Catherine Reckart Boyce, Class of 1973

 

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

 

7 – Dorie Mike Whetsell, Monongah graduate

 

8 – Sandra Ashcraft, Class of 1964

 

9 – Paula Kerns Fazio, Class of 1979

 

12 – Angelo Catania, Class of 1943

12 – Jack Fuller, Class of 1974, son of Lucille Bonasso Fuller, Class of 1945.

16 – Debby Morrison Harden, Class of 1966

 

17 – Twins Earnest Hayes & Chester Hayes, both Class of 1965

 

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, Class of 1975

29– Pat Meredith Wills, Class of 1950

 

30 – Beth Pritchard Brooks, Class of 1978

 

30 – David Harbert of Idamay, Farmington grad

 

 

 

September

 

 

 

1 – Claude Domico, Jr., Class of 1959

 

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

 

 

 

November

 

1 – Tom Dean, Class of 1949

 

5 – John Olesky, Class of 1950

 

8 – Diana Pishner Walker

 

10 – Tony Orsini, Class of 1946

 

14 – Ann Marie Mascak Davis, Class of 1955

 

17 – John Todd Moats, North Marion Class of 1985

 

20—Hellen Snider Carpenter, Class of 1950               

 

20 – Kathryn Toothman Crim, Class of 1950

 

22 – Mike Ahouse, Class of 1968

 

23 -- Antheai Justice Turner, North Marion 1982

 

25 – Gerald Nelson Hartley, Class of 1955

 

27 – Roy Foster, Jr., Class of 1945

28 – Danny Fullen, Class of 1961

 

29 – Dave Westfall, Marcia Westfall Michalski’s son

 

 

 

December

 

2 – Adam Michna, 1980 North Marion graduate

 

2 -- Mareia Wilmouth McDougal, Class of 1964

 

4 – Ronald Pearse, Class of 1961

 

4 – Jay Michalski, 1980 North Marion graduate

 

5 – Duane Harbert, Class of 1951

 

8 – Brenda Urban, Class of 1971

 

11 – Paulette Colanero O’Connor, Class of 1966

 

13 – Otis “Sarge” Shaver, Class of 1948

 

14 – Bev Morgan Colisino, Class of 1974

 

16 – Barbara Sweede, Class of 1956

 

16 – Shelvy Maze Cunningham, Class of 1964

 

16 – Henry Moore, husband of Beth Pritchard Moore, Class of 1975

 

18 – Bill Cameon, Class of 1960

 

20 – Mike Hess, Class of 1975

 

22 – Frances Wimer Miller, Class of 1951

 

23 – Jim Fullen

 

25 – Chris Shamrock Henning

 

27 – John Yokay III, son of John Yokay, Class of 1953

 

 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

1 – Jonna Pritchard Barnett, 1980 North Marion grad

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