Steven F. Billetz
Steven F. Billetz, age 75, of Greensboro, Pa., died at 5:08 p.m. on Saturday, March 24, 2007, at the Ruby Memorial Hospital, Morgantown, West Virginia. He was born September 14, 1931, in Monongahela Township, Greene County, Pa., the son of Joseph and Anna (Regan) Billetz.
Mr. Billetz was a 1949 graduate of Mapletown High School where he excelled in all sports.
He resided in the Greensboro area all of his life and retired in 1990 as Day Shift Mine Supervisor from Duquesne Light’s Warwick Mine. Mr. Billetz worked at the mine for 40 years.
He was a member of and usher for Holy Family Catholic Church in Greensboro and was an altar server during his early life.
Mr. Billetz was a member of the B. P. O. Elks Lodge No. 757, Waynesburg, Pa., and served as a Monongahela Township Democratic Committeeman.
He was an avid golfer and enjoyed hunting and fishing and was a keen supporter of Mapletown sports and the University of Notre Dame football and basketball programs.
Mr. Billetz was a loving husband, father and grandfather and especially enjoyed his granddaughter Marlaina’s boxer, Katie.
On March 17, 1950, he married Edith Hawk, who survives.
Also surviving are a son, Stephen E. Billetz and his wife, Donna Lee, of Dilliner, Pa.; a daughter, Stephanie A. Mallory and her husband, Charles Ray, of Greensboro; two granddaughters: Myra L. Billetz of Dilliner and Marlaina Raye Mallory of Greensboro; two brothers: George Billetz and his wife, Martha, of Dallas, Texas, and Andrew Billetz of Parlin, New Jersey; four sisters: Mary Babyak of Astoria, New York, Julia Mikelinich of Mount Kisco, New York, Veronica Billetz of Detroit, Michigan, and Alice Novak of Greensboro; his sister-in-law, Helen Billetz of Greensboro; his mother-in-law, Helen Hawk of Greensboro; his brother-in-law, Charles E. Hawk and his wife, Wanda, of Greensboro; and several nieces and nephews.
Deceased are his parents, two brothers, Joseph Billetz and John Billetz, and three sisters, Susan Billetz, Catherine Wishinski and Anna Papuga.
Family and friends are welcomed from 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday in the YOSKOVICH FUNERAL HOME (724-966-5500), Martin J. Yoskovich, Funeral Director, 300 South Vine Street (Route 88), Carmichaels, Pa., where a Blessing Service will be held at 10:15 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 2007.
A Mass of the Resurrection follows at 11 a.m. at the Holy Family Worship Site of the Saint Ignatius of Antioch Parish, Greensboro, with the Rev. Father Lawrence V. Holpp as Celebrant.
Interment will follow at Monongahela Hill Cemetery, Mapletown, Pa.
Vigil Service will be held in the funeral home on Tuesday at 8:30 p.m.
For additional information and to sign the online guest book, please visit www.YoskovichFH.com