Anna M. Toth
Anna M. Toth, 86, of Bobtown, passed away Wednesday, October 7, 2015, in Ruby Memorial Hospital, Morgantown, West Virginia.
She was born September 10, 1929, in Whitsett, a daughter of Steve M. Toth and Anna M. Hertznel Toth.
Also deceased are a brother, Paul Toth, and a niece, Catherine Toth.
Miss Toth was a 1947 graduate of Mapletown High School.
She worked at outside jobs near Cleveland, Ohio, for a suburban chiropractor and Blue Shield, until it was time to return home in the late 1970s to Whitsett and Bobtown to take care of her parents. She also worked for Van Meter country coal mine store.
Miss Toth was a historian of the Darr Mine Disaster of 1907, which occurred in Van Meter, Rostraver Township. She assisted WQED-TV in Pittsburgh with a video and story on the disaster; it can still be seen as a video online today. She was a participant at a roundtable discussion at Heinz History Center in 2007 on coal mine disasters, especially on those three that happened in December 1907, the Darr and Naomi mines and Monongah mine in West Virginia. She worked relentlessly in attending anniversary years of all local mine disasters and wrote many letters regarding safety features for coal mines.
She promoted Hungarian culture whenever the opportunity presented itself. She donated Hungarian artifacts to Heinz History Center, including her father’s mining tools. She also assisted with a DVD, showing her family pictures and Darr Mine pictures when a film crew from Debrecen, Hungary, was doing a tour of Hungarian reformed churches in the United States. She, along with the cooperation of local Boy Scouts, maintained the old St. Emory Hungarian Cemetery in Connellsville for many years.
Surviving are two nephews, Stephen Toth and wife Betsy of Ravenna, Ohio, and Scott Toth of Madison, Ohio; a grandnephew, Joseph Toth of Ravenna; and a sister-in-law, Vicki Toth of Madison.
Friends will be received from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, October 17, in Louis E. Rudolph Funeral Home, Thomas B. Rudolph, director/supervisor, 15 Main Street, Point Marion, PA 724-725-5256. A Hungarian service and burial will follow in Mount Washington Cemetery, Perryopolis.
Donations may be made in her memory to Heinz History Center, 1212 Smallman Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222.