OBIT: Nick SHUSTER, 2006, Windber, Somerset County, PA
  
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  SHUSTER, Nick 09/06/06 Daily American
  
    Nick Shuster, 88, Windber, died Sept. 4, 2006, at home. Born Dec. 12, 1917, in Windber,
  son of Michael and Anna (Knapick) Shuster. Preceded in death by parents; first wife, Ann
  (Makuch) Shuster; brothers, Andrew, Michael, George, John and Charles; sisters, Anna
  Hritz and Susan Zahurak; also an infant brother, Joseph; and infant sister. Survived by
  wife, Nellie (Chmiel) Shuster, son, Nick Shuster, Florida, stepchildren, Frank Zeglin Jr.
  and wife, Tammy; Marie, wife of Andy Roman; David Zeglin and wife, Anita, all of Windber;
  and Stephen Zeglin and wife Cindy, Belmont. Also survived by grand-daughters, Jacqueline
  Morgan and Heather Shuster; step-grandchildren, Chris, Andrew and Stephen Roman, Krista
  and Lisa Zeglin, Brenda Marian and Stephanie Zeglin, Jennifer Zeglin, Kayleigh and Alyssa
  Tyson; great-grand-son, Don "Auggie" Morgan; great-grandchildren,
  Christian, Johnathan and Emily Roman. Also special nephew, Dr. John Shuster and wife,
  Fran. Nick was a U.S. Army-Air Force veteran of World War II, where he served as a staff
  sergeant in the 1020th Army-Air Force base unit as an airplane engineer and top turret
  gunner. His squadron was involved in more than 25 combat missions over the Rhineland,
  Manila and the Philippines. He was awarded the Combat Crew Flying Badge, Distinguished
  Flying Cross and the Asiatic-Pacific Service Medal. He also received the European-African
  Middle Eastern Service Medal. He was a retired coal miner from Longwall Mining Co. and
  also was a former partner of Shuster Coal Co. in Hillsboro. Member of UMWA, and 50-year
  member of Windber American Legion and member of Windber VFW. Member of SS. Peter and Paul
  Orthodox Church, Windber. Friends will be received 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the
  William Kisiel Funeral Home, Windber. Brief service 9:30 a.m. Friday at the funeral home
  followed by burial service at 10 a.m. at SS. Peter and Paul Orthodox Church, Windber. The
  Very Rev. Protopresbyter David J. Smoley officiating. Interment church cemetery with
  graveside military honors by Windber VFW. Panachida service will be held at 7:30 p.m.
  Thursday.