Sue Valeria (Kerestes) Szewczyk

 

Sue Valeria (Kerestes) Szewczyk, 93, of Belle Vernon/Rostraver Township, died Saturday, September 13, 2008 in UPMC Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh.  Born in Douglass (which is now Sutersville) on October 29, 1914, she was the daughter of the late Michael G. and Anna (Masley) Kerestes.

 

A homemaker, Sue was also a baker for the Peasant Village Restaurant/Bakery.  She was a former member of the Holy Name Church and the Christian Mother Society in Monessen and was currently a member of the Church of St. Anne in Rostraver Township and its Confraternity of Christian Mothers.  She married her husband, Stanley K. Szewczyk in Monessen on April 14, 1945.  They were longtime residents of Monessen until 1959, when they moved to Rostraver Township.  Until her passing, she resided with her daughter in Rostraver Township.

 

She is survived by her son: Stanley C. "Lanny" Szewczyk; daughter : Susan Valeria (Szewczyk) Anderson  & husband Harve C. Anderson III, all of Rostraver  Township; 4 grandchildren of her son: Jay Szewczyk, Devon (Szewczyk) Field & husband Joe, Stanley J. Szewczyk and Candace (Szewczyk) Feeler& husband Russ; 3 grandchildren of her daughter: Danielle S. Anderson, Bria L. Anderson and Harve C. Anderson IV; 3 great-grandchildren of her son:  Kayden Field, Ashlynn Field and Seleena Feeler; sister; Emma D. (Kerestes) Pavlekovsky of Charleroi; 3 sisters-in-law; Irene (Sokol) Kerestes of Monessen, Geraldine K. (Brown) Kerestes of Park Forest, Illinois and Sophia (Szewczyk) Panek of Rostraver Township; 32 nieces & nephews; 57 great-nieces & great-nephews; 53 great-great nieces & great-great nephews.

 

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Stanley K. Szewczyk on December 13, 1990; 4 brothers, John J. Kerestes, Michael T. Kerestes, Andrew J. Kerestes and Thomas E. Kerestes; 3 sisters, Mary H. (Kerestes) Tomasko, Anna E. (Kerestes) Musial and Margaret L. (Kerestes) Scrip; and a daughter-in-law, Linda (Caruso) Szewczyk.

 

Friends will be received on Tuesday from 3 to 9 p.m., with a prayer service at 4 p.m., and Wednesday until 9:30 a.m. in the James C. Stump Funeral Home Inc., 580 Circle Drive, Belle Vernon/Rostraver Township (724-929-7934) www.jamesstumpfuneralhome.com  A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Wednesday, September 17 at 10:00 am in the Church Of St. Anne with her Pastor, the Rev. Ronald L. Simboli, presiding.  Interment will follow in Holy Name Cemetery, Monessen.

 

The family suggests memorial contributions to the Rostraver Public Library.