Obituaries Surnames A-J Submitted by Smerek Group Researchers

BARNEY-- On Friday, September 22, in her home in Clymer, Mrs. Nancy Barney. She
was born in Austria, November 22, 1888. She leaves her husband Wasko Barney and
these children: Mrs. Helen Hartman and Frank Barney, both of Cleveland; Michael
Barney of Warren, Ohio; and Mary, George and Charles Barney at home. Funeral
services were held Monday by the Rev. Basil Kurutz, pastor of the Clymer Greek
Catholic Church with burial in the church cemetery. (Anastazia (Legdan)Barney, Barney
surname was originally Nedvid).
BARNEY [NEDVID], Wasco
WASCO BARNEY NEDVID, age 82, of Clymer passed away Sunday morning at 2
o'clock in St. Joseph's Hospital, Warren, Ohio. Born December 10, 1878 in Austria, the
deceased was a member of St. Michael's Greek Catholic Church, Clymer. He is survived
by the following children: Mrs. Arnold (Helen) Hartman, Mrs. Mary Kephart, and Frank,
all of Cleveland, O.; Michael and Charles, both of Warren, O.; George, U.S. Navy.
There are 13 grandchildren. Friends will be received at the Bence Funeral Home, Clymer,
until 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, when a brief prayer service will be held there, followed by a
Requiem Mass at 10 a.m. in St. Michael's Church, Clymer. The Very Rev. Father
Andrew J. Kertis will be the celebrant and interment will follow in St. Michael's
Cemetery. Parastas service will be held in the Funeral Home at 7 p.m. Monday. (Indiana
Evening Gazette, Indiana, PA, 1-11-60.) (Barney surname was originally Nedvid).
BASARAB, George
BALTIMORE - George Basarab, 75, of Baltimore, Md., and formerly of Madera, died
yesterday morning at the Church Home Hospital in Baltimore. Born April 5, 1912, in
Madera, he was a son of the late Onuphrey (Frank) and Mary (Kypochick) Basarab. Mr.
Basarab is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Stephen of Baltimore; Michael
of Philipsburg; Mrs. Anna Kochan of Ramey; Mrs. Kathryn Lumanick of Ponce Inlet,
Fla., John of San Diego, Calif.; Mrs. Theodore (Mary) Marks of Guilford, N.Y.; Mrs.
Michael (Susan) Warholic of Beccaria; Andrew Fenchak of Madera; Paul Fenchak of
Baltimore; and a number of nieces and nephews. Mr. Basarab retired in Washington,
D.C., as a security guard. He was Ukranian Catholic by faith and was a collector of books
all his life. Divine Liturgy will be said Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Mary’s Ukranian
Catholic Church, Ramey, with the Rev. James E. Poorman as celebrant. Interment will
take place in the church cemetery. (written in 1987).
BASARAB, Dr. John
Dr. John Basarab passed away on February 9, 2012 at Lancaster General Hospital after a
long illness. He was 92 years old. John was born in Madera, Pennsylvania on December
21, 1919, the sixth child of the late Frank (Onufer) Basarab and Mary (Maria) Kopichak
Basarab. He graduated from Bigler Township High School in 1938 earning a scholarship
to what was then called the Pennsylvania State College. He graduated from Penn State in
1942 with a degree in Education. He earned membership in Pi Gamma Mu, the National
Social Science Honor Society. John served in the US Army from 1942-1946 with the
972nd Signal Service Battalion in the Asiatic Pacific Theater of Operations. He was
awarded the American Theater Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Theater Ribbon, Good Conduct
Ribbon and the World War II Victory Medal. While in the Army he met the love of his