Worthington High School

Worthington-West Franklin
High School

Worthington, PA

1933 - 1984

 
Catherine Jeanette Tancabel Hosak

Catherine Jeanette Tancabel Hosak, 82, of Butler died Friday, November 13, 2009
afternoon at Butler Memorial Hospital.

She was born in Worthington, November 6, 1927, a daughter of the late Michael M.
and Olga M. (Vlah) Tancabel.

She was a 1946 graduate of Worthington-West Franklin High School, Worthington,
Pa.

She had worked for 30 years at Basilon's Formal Wear store, Butler, Pa. Before
that she had been a waitress at the Lake Arthur Country Club and at the
Nationwide Insurance Co. Regional Office.

She had belonged to the Universe Women's Bowling League.

She was the widow of Steven Hosak. They were married Nov. 25, 1955, and he died
June 20, 2006.

Surviving are a son, Andrew J. Hosak of Las Vegas, Nev.; a daughter, Debbie
Riemenschneider and her husband, Daniel, of Butler; three grandchildren, Brandie
Rearick, Jerad Krivak and Tanya Hosak; two great-grandchildren; two brothers,
John E. Tancabel of Bessemer, Pa., and Richard R. Tancabel of Youngstown, Ohio;
and two sisters, Mary Ann Proctor of Bessemer, and Patricia Ann Vallus of
Youngstown.

She also was preceded in death by her son, Steven M. Hosak, who died July 2,
2004, and her brother, Joseph M. Tancabel.

Friends and family of Catherine J. Hosak, who died Friday, Nov. 13,
2009, will be received from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Geibel Funeral Home,
201 E. Cunningham St., Butler, Pa. Funeral services will follow at 11 a.m.
Tuesday at the funeral home. The Rev. David Panther, pastor of the First United
Presbyterian Church of Butler, will officiate.

Cremation services were provided by Geibel Funeral Home, Butler, Pa.