IDA FOSTER SHAVER'S LONG-FORGOTTEN CLASS OF 1943 MONONGAH REUNION PHOTO
Cindy Saloky found a photo that her
mother, Ida Foster Shaver, Class of 1943, had saved. Ida wrote names on back on
the Monongah High reunion photo of her Class of 1943, but maybe not in the
right order. Lower photo is Ida's retirement photo.
I’m sure it will stir up memories for
Lions who look at the photo and read this article. It sure did for me.
Helen Mary Pawlaski Bright, Class of
1943, who married Warren Bright in 1947, was a sister of Jean Pawlaski Suszek,
Class of 1945, who married Henry Suszek, and Eddie Pawlaski, Class of 1947. Their
parents were Andrew and Sarah Pawlaski.
Helen’s daughter, Sarah Bright Yanero,
is Class of 1969. Her sons are David Lee Bright and Warren James Bright, Jr.
Irene Vingle Mazurek, Class of 1943, was
a sister of Ronald Vingle, who passed away in 2020 in Orange City, Florida.
Irene married Illinois native Alfred
Mazurek, a Barrackville High graduate who passed away in 2017 in Fairmont.
Alfred was in the United Mine Workers of America Band, as were many Vingles.
Irene and Alfred’s children are Nancy
Mazurek Laughlin, Joni Mazurek and Bruce Mazurek.
Another 1943 graduate, Louise McCoy
Arnett, was born in Clarksburg and passed away in 2009 in Monongah’s Saint
Barbara’s Nursing Home. She’s buried in the IOOF Cemetery in Enterprise, West
Virginia.
Louise was married to Voyd Bond Arnett
for 72 years. Barbara Lee Arnett Dod was their daughter who passed away in 2021
at the age of 75.
The parents of Mike Matkovich, Class of
1943, were George and Neda Matkovich. Mike’s brother was John Matkovich, an
outstanding Monongah High athlete who married Dolores Sweede Matkovich, Class
of 1953, and passed away in Palm Harbor, Florida in 2022.
Angelo Catania, another Class of 1943 graduate,
was the brother of Josephine Catania, who passed away in California in 2009, Alex
Catania, who was co-owner of the Sinclair service station in Monongah next to
the Lawrence Godby home, and Mary Catania Heywood and Carmela Catania Allard,
who moved to Texas with her soldier husband while the rest of the family moved
to Covina, California where Angelo has been stationed with the military.
Goldie Jean Basagic Myers, Class of
1943, passed away in 2007. She is buried in Mohammedan Cemetery in Monongah.
Michael Dominic “Mingie” Domico, Class
of 1943, passed away in 2014 in Upland, California. His parents were
Quintiliano and Elizabeth Domico, who had 12 children.
Mingie delivered ice for North Pole Ice
Company and a Consol Mine #63. He was in the Army (1943-46) in England, France
and Germany.
Mingie graduated from WVU through the
GI Bill. He married Monongah’s Concettina “Tina” Viani in 1952. They returned
to California where Mingie worked for General Dynamics till his 1985 retirement
and got 8 family members a job with that company.
Mingie’s siblings were Patsy, Christine
Lamb, Nancy Thomas, Josephine Vespoint, Jim, Joe, Junior Domico who founded
Domico Funeral Home in Fairmont, Pete, Grace, JoAnn and Louie Domico. Mingie
and Tin had four children and 8 grandchildren.
Jack
Meredith, Class of 1943, is the brother of Bill Meredith, Class of 1957, who
lives in Sarasota, Florida; Patricia Meredith
Wills, Class of 1950; Howard Joe Meredith, Class of 1945, Bonnie Meredith,
Marion Jean Meredith Riddle, Class of 1945, and Marjorie Delores Meredith Holt,
Class of 1947. All but Bill are deceased.
Others in the
Class of 1943 photo:
Paul McCoy
John Adducio
Louise Argiro Biddle
Joe Pasquale
Carolyn Grobola
Rose Casuccio Nicolettte
Bennie Larry
Lorraine Scudere Page
Frankie Kniceley Martin
Virginia Slamen Monsour
Lena Turner Nagy
Adelia Alkire
Bernadine Hardin
Bob Charlton
Paulina Catania
Carolyn Grobola
NOT IN PHOTO
Elizabeth Moosey Fleming
Frank Baczuk
Julius Basagic
Pete Bonasso
Wencesius Kanios, brother of Stanley
Kanios
Ted Lipinski, of the MHS athletic
family that included “Big Jim” Lipinski
Stanley Urban, Class of 1943, who
operated Urban Grocery near UMW Hall and Stoney Lonesome drive entrance at
bottom of hill
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