OBIT: Michael SIMMONS, 1998, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  SIMMONS
  
    Michael Simmons, 80, of Pittsburgh, formerly of Macdonaldton, died
  Feb. 9, 1998 at West Penn Hospital.  Born Nov. 11, 1917 in
  Macdonaldton, son of Frank and Mary (Petro) Simmons.  Preceded in
  death by parents, brother Frank and sisters Mary Collein, Christine
  and Helen Simmons.  Survived by his wife, the former Pauline Swet;
  brother of Ann Salonish of Hyndman, Catherine Beverly of Oxen Hill,
  Md., Eva Simmons and Stella Arscott, both of Baltimore, Md., John of
  Gibsonia and George and Paul, both of Berlin; also, numerous nieces
  and nephews.  Retired from the former J&L Steel of Pittsburgh, WWII
  Army Air Force veteran, member of Sts. Peter and Paul Russian
  Orthodox Church, Goodtown and the Berlin American Legion.  Family
  will receive friends from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Thursday at Deaner Funeral
  Home, Berlin, where parastas will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. 
  Brief service at the funeral home at 8:30 a.m. Friday, followed by
  divine liturgy at Sts. Peter and Paul's Orthodox Church Goodtown. 
  Very Rev. John Govrusik.  Interment Pine Hill Orthodox Cemetery,
  graveside military rite by Berlin American Legion and VFW.
  
  Daily American, February 11, 1998
  
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