Obituaries: Surnames K-S Submitted by Smerek Group Researchers

Graveside military services for John B. Katcher, 78, of 31 Sample Bridge Road, Silver
Spring Township, will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in Emmanuel Cemetery, Lewisberry.
He died Wednesday, Aug. 5, 1998 at home. Born Sept. 28, 1919 in Smoke Run to the late
Alex and Katherine Bungo Katcher, he was a retired electrician with the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 143, Harrisburg. He was a member of
the VFW of Harrisburg and a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. Mr. Katcher is
survived by his wife, Mary M. Lipka Katcher; a daughter, Gloria J. Samples of
Lewisberry; a son Jerry L. Katcher of Frederick, Md.; two sisters, Helen Vujevic of
Hinkley, Ohio and Ann Rusnak of Ginter; three brothers, Charles Catcher of San Diego,
Calif., Frank Katcher of Alanpo, Calif. and Stanley Katcher of Olmstead, Calif.; and two
grandchildren. The Rev. Donald E. Potter will officiate at services. Friends may call from
noon until 1:30 p.m. in Malpezzi Funeral Home, 8 Market Plaza Way, Mechanicsburg.
KEPHART, Mrs. Mary (Bungo)
WINBURNE - Mrs. Marv Kephart of Winburne died this morning at the Philipsburg
State General Hospital. Born in Smithmill Feb. 10, 1911, she was the daughter of Wasco
and Eva (Cyktich) Bungo. She was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church of
Clearfield, and the Kylertown Grange. She was an employee of the W. T. Rawleigh Co.
Mrs. Kephart was first married to Stanley Plisco who preceded her in death in 1946. She
then married Ezekiel Kephart who died in 1965. Mrs. Kephart Is survived by these
children: Mrs. Denver (Rose) Kephart and Thomas Plisco, both of Winburne, Mrs. Jahn
(Francine) Relse, Riverside, Cal.; Patricia Plisco, Mt. Vernon, Ohio; Mrs. Mark (Mary
Kay) Strickland, Canaan, Maine, Mrs. Donald (Nancy) Anderson and Marsha Kephart,
both of Philipsburg. Thirteen, grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive.
Brothers and sisters surviving are Mrs. John (Anna) Torick, Southberry, Conn.; Metro
Bungo, Clifton, N.J.; Eva Bungo, Patterson, N.J.; Mrs. Pierre (Irene) Llgeour, Clifton,
N.J.; Joseph Bungo, Totowa, N.J.; and Mrs. Michael (Margaret) Kachur, Little Falls,
N.J., Mrs. Kephart was preceded in death by her parents, both husbands and one son.
Friends will be received at the Strange and Weaver Home for Funerals, Morrisdale, from
7 p.m. Thursday until time of service Friday which will be at 11 a.m. at the chapel of the
funeral home. Pastor C. Leon Strickland will officiate and interment will follow in the
Messiah Baptist Cemetery, Kylertown. (The Progress, Clearfield, PA, February 13,
1979.)
KIMACK, Anna (Rusyn)
Mrs. Anna Kimack, Nanty Glo, Expires
Mrs. Anna (Rusyn) Kimack of 45 Springfield, Nanty Glo, died Feb. 24, 1975, at Indiana
Hospital. Mrs. Kimack, who was 66, was born June 23, 1908, in Smithmill, Pa., a
daughter of Frank and Nancy (Nedrich) Rusyn. She was preceded in death by her parents,
and husband, Michael. Surviving are these children: Michael, married to the former Ethel
Callahan, Patton; Nancy, wife of John Silva, Gallitzin; William, married to the former
Ruth Sisco, Euclid, O.; James, married to the former Emma Noble, Nancy Glo; Betty,
wife of Mello Mash, Vintondale; and John, at home. Also surviving are 21 grandchildren
and these sisters and brothers: Christine Starkjohnn, Helen Buran and Kay Getto, all of
New York; Frances Fowler, Philipsburg; Julie Fitzgerald, Florida; John, Smithmill, and
William, Houtzdale. Friends were received at the Richard D. Ondriezek Funeral Home in