Janice Crompton

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Arch Priest Alexander Poshyvajlo, 92, a Ukrainian immigrant who served as a parish priest for 65 years, has died. Father Poshyvajlo, of  West Deer, died surrounded by his family on April 22 of aspiration pneumonia. As a young boy he came to the United States with his father from Ukraine for jobs picking cotton in Mississippi. “It was like slave labor,” said his wife, Matushka Anna Poshyvajlo, who married Father Poshyvajlo in 1960 after gaining the approval of his bishop.

4 days ago | post-gazette.com | Janice Crompton

Richard D. “Dick” Drennan, founder and director of the Center for Comparative Archaeology and a professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, died April 18 after a long illness. He was 77. Captivated by archaeology as a boy, Mr. Drennan was fascinated by archaeology and anthropology, and his parents turned family vacations into an exploration of historic places in Egypt, Greece, Mexico and Peru. “When he traveled with his parents, he got treated like a tourist,” said his wife, Jeanne Drennan.

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Dr. Donald Mrvos, an obstetrician and gynecologist who delivered thousands of babies, including the first quadruplets born at UPMC Magee in 1973, died of complications of dementia on April 5. He was 96. Dr. Mrvos grew up in McKeesport, where his parents ran Dan’s Bar on Fifth Avenue after immigrating from what was then-Yugoslavia before his birth. His mother sought to show him what she never had -- an opportunity for an education.

2 weeks ago | post-gazette.com | Janice Crompton

Harry W. Dilmore, who devoted more than five decades helping Quaker Valley communities in one way or another, has died. While running a full-time interior decorating business, Mr. Dilmore, 73, of Avalon, served 26 years as a councilman in Avalon, until his retirement in 2001. But, he wasn’t down for long — he worked another 16 years as the borough’s manager and spent 14 years serving concurrently as a manager in neighboring Kilbuck.

2 weeks ago | post-gazette.com | Janice Crompton

Merchant mariner, outdoorsman, ceramicist, bookworm and a sexagenarian college student. Not the life of Ernest Hemingway but that of Oakland resident Robert “Bob” Dahlberg, who enjoyed many interests in a lifetime brimming with endless intellectual curiosity. Mr. Dahlberg, 72, died April 10 of complications from a fall. He grew up in Parkville, Minn., the son of a mining engineer at U.S. Steel, headquartered in Pittsburgh.