Obituaries: Surnames K-S Submitted by Smerek Group Researchers

spent the majority of his career working overseas as a heavy equipment diesel mechanic.
Friends will be received from 10 a.m. until time of Panachida at noon Monday at
Mulcahy Funeral Home, the Very Rev. Michael Senyo, Metro’s nephew. Committal, SS.
Peter and Paul’s Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Cemetery. Graveside military rites by
American Legion Post 449. (Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown, Pa., May 1, 2011)
KARLINCHAK, Anthony H.
Anthony H. Karlinchak, 89, of McKeeport and formerly of Morann passed away at 6:40
PM, Monday, January 16, at UPMC Hospital, McKeesport, PA. He was born on Jan. 31,
1922 at Hastings, PA, a son of the late Stephen and Xenia (Czaplaczyk) Karlinchak. He
was a 1941 graduate of the former Woodward Twp. High School and served in the U.S.
Navy in WW II & the Korean war. Mr. Karlinchak retired in 1985 as a millwright from
General Motors of McKeesport. He was a parishioner and an active church member,
along with his wife, of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, McKeesport. Mr.
Karlinchak was a member of the United Auto Workers of America; the 11th Ward Men's
Club of McKeesport, and the V.F.W. and American Legion. On Oct. 6, 1956 in St.
Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ramey he married Anna Kutzer Karlinchak who
survives of McKeeport. Mr. Karlinchak is survived by two sons Stephen Mark
Karlinchak of McKeesport and Joe Karlinchak of North Huntingdon. He is also survived
by five sisters, Anne Sullivan of Maryland; Helen Jollon of Bethpage, NY; Irene Gibler
of Fallbrook, CA; Stephanie Elynich of North Arlington, NJ; and Joan Lang, of Olney,
MD; two brothers, George Karlinchak and his wife Arlene and Peter Karlinchak and his
wife Jean all of Erie. A number of nieces and nephews also survive. In addition to his
parents, Mr. Karlinchak was preceded in death by two sisters, Mary Boris and Catherine
Conlon and three brothers, Michael, John and Richard Karlinchak. Friends will be
received on Thursday, Jan. 19 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM and on Friday, Jan. 20 from 8:30 -
9:30 AM at the Kruise Funeral Home, Inc. Ramey. A Parastas service will be sung at
7:00 PM Thursday in the funeral home with Fr. Balistreri. Great Panachida will be held
on Friday, Jan. 20 at 10:00 AM in St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ramey with Fr.
Anthony Balistreri officiating. Interment will follow in St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic
Cemetery, Ramey. Condolences may be sent to: condolences@kruisefuneralhome.com.
KARLINCHAK, Sonia ()
MORANN - Mrs. Sonia Karlinchak, 70, of Morann died of a heart attack Saturday at 3
p.m. in the Philipsburg State General Hospital. Born Feb. 28, 1894, in Austria, she came
to this country 53 years ago. Mrs. Karlinchak was a member of the St. Mary's Greek
Catholic Church at Ramey and the St. Mary's Altar Society. Surviving are the following
children: Michael, Linden, N.J.; John, Arlington, Va.; Anthony, McKeesport; George and
Peter, both of Erie; Richard, North Arlington, N.J.; Mrs. Charles (Mary) Boris, Scotch
Plains, N.J.; Mrs. Francis (Kathryn) Conlon, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Mrs. William (Anne)
Sullivan, East Orange, N.J.; Mrs. Julian (Helen) Jollon, Long Island, N.Y.; Mrs. James
(Irene) Gibler, Pacific Palisades, Calif.; Mrs. Andrew (Stephanie) Elynich, North
Arlington, N. J.; Mrs. Harlon (Joan) Lang, New York City; 35 grandchildren, six great -
grandchildren and two brothers in Europe, Peter and George. She was preceded in death
by her husband, Stephen, four years ago. Requiem High Mass will be sung Wednesday at
9:30 a.m. from St. Mary's Greek Catholic Church with Father Jaroslav Fedyk officiating.