“Thank you all for your prayers!!! We wouldn’t be here without them! God is GREAT! He’s BACK !!!”

Don grew up on Park Avenue across the street from Monongah’s Mount Calvary Cemetery. He lives in Pickerington, Ohio with wife Sandy, the Barracksville girl he married, after moving from Lancaster, Ohio.

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

 

He was in the senior class play at Monongah High.

Don and Sandy’s children are Lisa and a son. They have 5 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.

Don’s parents were Paul and Iva Jane Hostutler. Don’s sister is Barbara Hostutler Swisher, Class of 1956, who lives in Delaware, Ohio. Barbara’s son, David Swisher, passed away in Raleigh, North Carolina. Barbara married James Swisher, whose parents were Lake and Beulah Swisher of Catawba.

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. Mary Margaret Sayres Lewis is Don’s cousin.

Eva Blanche “Banny” Hostutler Brzuzy, widow of Stephen Brzuzy (in the PNA Brzuzy family), passed away in 2010. They had one child, Regina Marie Brzuzy.