Anna M. Toth
Anna M. Toth, age 86 Bobtown, Pennsylvania passed away Wednesday, October 7, 2015 in the Ruby Memorial Hospital, Morgantown, West Virginia.
She was born on Tuesday, September 10, 1929 a daughter of Steve M. Toth and Anna M. (Hertznel) Toth in Whitsett, Pennsylvania.
Anna graduated from Mapletown High School, Class of 1947.
She then worked at outside jobs near Cleveland, Ohio for a suburban Chiropractor and for Blue Shield there as well until it was time to return home in the late 1970’s to Whitsett and Bobtown to take care of her parents.
She had also worked for the Van Meter country coal mine store.
Anna was a historian of the Darr Mine Disaster of 1907, which occurred in Van Meter, Rostraver Township, Pennsylvania.
She assisted WQED TV in Pittsburgh with a video and story on the disaster. It can still be seen as a video online today.
Anna was a participant at a round table discussion on Coal Mine Disasters — especially on those three that happened in December 1907: the Darr Mine, the Naomi Mine and the Monongah Mine in West Virginia. This was held at the Heinz History Center in 2007.
She worked relentlessly in attending anniversary years of all local mine disasters and wrote many letters regarding safety features for coal mines.
Anna also promoted Hungarian culture whenever the opportunity presented itself.
She donated Hungarian artifacts to the 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.
Anna, with the cooperation of local Boy Scouts, maintained the old St. Emory Hungarian Cemetery, Connellsville, Pennsylvania for many years.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Paul Toth; and niece Catherine Toth
She is survived by two nephews: Stephen Toth and his wife Betsy of Ravenna, Ohio and Scott Toth of Madison, Ohio; grand nephew, Joseph Toth of Ravenna, Ohio; and sister-in-law, Vicki Toth of Madison, Ohio.
Friends will be received in LOUIS E. RUDOLPH FUNERAL HOME, Thomas B. Rudolph, Funeral Director & Supervisor, 15 Main Street, Point Marion, PA 15474 (724.725.5256) on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015 from 12 Noon until 2:00 p.m. and then will proceed to Mount Washington Cemetery, Cemetery Road in PerryopolisPennsylvania for a Hungarian Burial Service and interment.
Donations may be made in Anna’s memory to: Heinz History Center, 1212 Smallman Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222.