Fault is found with Hineman story
I read the story in The TIMES on March 19 informing the county of hte passing away of the county’s former sheriff, John Hineman. As an avid reader and advertiser in your paper, I was appalled and thoroughly disgusted that The TIMES would print such an article with the biased opinion of one writer. It’s a shame on all of us in this county that this writer could not find one good thing to print about a man whoom I and many others have known personally for over 20 years.
Does no one remember the good deeds and hard work that John Hineman performed as sheriff? Surely a man who served this county deserved a better obituary notice than the one I read in your paper. If everyone was so poorly informed as to the history of the sheriff’s department under Mr. Hineman, why did not someone search the numerous TIMES articles of the past complimenting his memory?
Why would this reporter pull from the past only the degrading moments of an unblemished career? Couldn’t this reporter find a better way of saying goodbye to this man who spent most of his life serving the public. One needs only to read former TIMES articles to find a more fitting way of describing his tenure in office.
Knowing Mr. Hineman both as an employer and as a friend for many years, I can only hope his assoiciates through the years missed this edition of The TIMES. If the reporter needs reminded or is uninformed, there are many former employees who worked under Mr. Hineman who would be glad to shar their knowledge of a fine outstanding colleague.
Richard Clinger
Beaver Falls
Beaver Country Times – Apr 7, 1981
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Hineman story called ‘bad taste’
I am writing to you in regards to the article that you published on Thursday, March 19, 1981, about the death of the former sheriff John Hineman. I feel that this article was written in bad taste and whomever printed such a low-hitting article has no feelings for anyone besides themselves. They left nothing to be desired and never thought once about the feelings of close friends and family of the deceased.
Is it such a crime or too much to ask to leave a man die in peace. You felt that since the man was dead, you had no one’s feelings to think about. Also, you must have felt that since the man was dead you did not have to worry about anyone fighting about one’s rights as an individual. Wel, I hope this is not the only letter you receive regarding this issue, and I’m sure it won’t be.
I have only one thing else to say — “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” — take the phrase for what it is worth.
One who cares about the feelings of the survivors.
Kathy Christiana
Center Township
Beaver Country Times – Mar 27, 1981
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John W. Hineman Jr.
John W. Hineman Jr., 71, of 2716 Kingfisher Drive, Orlando, Fla., formerly of Brighton Township, died Thursday, March 19, 1981, in Orlando Regional Medical Center, as a result of injuries suffered in a fall in his home.
Born March 24, 1909, in Brighton Township, son of Mrs. Eunice Stanton Hineman, Brighton Township, and the late John W. Hineman Sr., he was a resident of Orlando five years, and a former resident of Brighton Township, most of his life.
He was the former sheriff of Beaver County; a member of Park United Presbyterian Church, Beaver; St. James Lodge No. 457, F&AM, Beaver; Beaver County Lambskin Club; Scottish Rites, New Castle, and Syria Temple Pittsburgh.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania Sheriff’s Association; an organizer and former member of Fort McIntosh Lion’s Club, Beaver; member of the BPOE Lodge No. 283, Rochester, and active in other civic organizations.
Surviving in addition to his mother, are his wife, Mary B. Hineman; a son, John W. III, Industry; a daughter, Joan Zirot, Orlando; four grandchildren; a brother, Simon O. Hineman, Bridgewater, and two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Barger, Beaver, and Mrs. Esther McKenzie, California.
Friends will be received Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. in the H. Hazen Wilson Jr. Funeral Home, Beaver, where a service will be conducted Monday at 11 a.m. by Rev. David L. Bowland, pastor of the Beaver Christian Missionary and Alliance Church.
Interment will be in Sylvania Hills Memorial Park, Daugherty Township.
Beaver Country Times – Mar 20, 1981
John Hineman becomes sheriff in 1955.
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The first few words of this next article were on a different page, so got cut off, but aren’t all that necessary. This is a neat little story mentioning John W. Hineman III, son of Sheriff John Hineman, as related by a friend, Mr. Richard Umstead, many years later.
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Mary Barger Hineman
Mary Barger Hineman, 86, of Orlando, Fla., formerly of Brighton Township, died Sunday evening, Dec. 3, 2000, in Winter Park Hospital, Winter Park, Fla.
Born Oct. 15, 1914, in Memphis, Tenn., she had been a resident of Orlando for the past 25 years. She was a member of the Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, Orlando, and Wayne Chapter No. 42 O.E.S., Beaver.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John William Hineman Jr., and her son, John William Hineman III.
Surviving are her daughter and son-in-law, Joan and Lou Sennello, Orlando; four grandchildren and their spouses, Robyn and Joe Fricchione, Tracy and Rich Wallace, John and Cathy Hineman, and Robert and Lydia Hineman; five great-grandchildren, Kyle Williams, Kaylyn Williams, Austin Smithfield, Courtney Fricchione and Elena Hineman, and a sister, Virginia Remaley, Freedom.
Friends will be received Thursday from 11 a.m. until time of service at 1 p.m. in the J.T. ANDERSON FUNERAL HOME, 205 College Ave., Beaver. The Rev. Jeffrey A. Arnold, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Beaver, will officiate.
Interment will follow in Sylvania Hills Memorial Park, Daugherty Township.
Beaver Country Times – Dec 6, 2000
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John William Hineman III
Mr. John William Hineman III, 46 of Willowbrook Road, Industry, died Sunday, May 30, 1982, in Monteflore Hospital, following an extended illness.
Born March 21, 1936, in Rochester, he was the son of Mary Barger Hineman, Orlando, Fla., and the late John W. Hineman, who died March, 1981. He was employed as the Director of Guidance since 1965 in the Western Beaver County School District, and was a social studies teacher since 1960. He formerly served with the United States Naval Reserves, was a graduate of Tarkin College, Missouri, received a Master’s Degree in 1965, and a secondary principal’s certification in 1970 from Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa, did graduate studies at the following universities, Youngstown, Univiersity, Uniiversity of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania State University, was a member of St. George Serbian Orthodox Church, American-Jugoslav, Beaver County Counselors Association, Pennsylvania School Counslers Association, American School Councelors Association, American Personnel and Guidance Association, St. James Lodge No. 457, F&A.M. BPOE Lodge 283, Rochester, New Castle Consistory, SPRS 32nd Degree, and former member of the Tri State Citizens Scholarship Foundation serving as chairman for the Western Beaver Area, former corss country coach at Western Beaver, and assistant coach for Pop Warner Midwestern Colts football team.
Surviving in addition to his mother, are his wife, Mrs. Helen Disdore Hineman; two sons, John M. and Robert J., both at home, a sister, Mrs. Robert (Joan) Zirot, Kissimmee, Fla.
Funeral was conducted today at 1 p.m. in the St. George Serbian Orthodox Church by his pastor, the Very Rev. Father Slobodan Prodanovich.
Interment followed in Beaver Cemetery.
Funeral arrangements were handled by the D.L. WILLIAMS FUNERAL HOME, 848 Midland Ave., Midland.
Friends may, if they wish, make memorial contributions to his church.
Beaver Country Times – Jun 1, 1982
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TO MARK 88TH BIRTHDAY
Mrs. Eunice Stanton Hineman, who will be 88 years old Saturday, will be honored at a dinner party at the home of her son, S.O. Hineman, Western Avenue, Westview, Brighton Township, with whom she resides.
The event is planned by her daughter, Mrs. Ruth H. Barger, Beaver. Aides will be the hostess’ daughters, Mrs. James (Martha) Gordon and Mrs. Christy B. (Phyllis) Netherland, both of Brighton Township; Mrs. Curtis (Doris) Begley, Beaver Falls, and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Robert (Lois) Albright, Ingomar.
Mrs. Hineman, born in Olean, N.Y., is the widow of John S.[W] Hineman Sr. and the mother of four children, Mrs. Barger, Mrs. Esther L. McKenzie, San Jose, Calif., S.O. Hineman and John W. Hineman Jr., Westview, Brighton Township. She has 13 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren.
Beaver County Times – Aug. 4, 1972
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Esther H. McKenzie dies after surgery
Esther Hineman McKenzie, 71, Merced, Calif., a former resident of Brighton Township, died July 23 following heart surgery.
She is survived by her husband, Orville McKenzie, five sons, 25 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, a sister, Ruth Barger and a brother, Simon Hineman, both of Beaver. She was preceded in death by her parents John and Eunice Hineman and a brother John Jr.
A memorial service was held today in Sunrise Valley Baptist Church. Memorial donations may be sent to the Memorial Fund of Sunrise Valley Baptist Church, 5860 Blossom Ave., San Jose, Calif. 95123.
Beaver Country Times – Jul 26, 1984
Clarification
Lynn McCarthy, Merced, Calif., is the daughter of Mrs. Esther (Hineman) McKenzie, Merced, Calif., a former resident of Brighton Township, who passed away July 23 following heart surgery. Mrs. McCarthy‘s name was omitted from Mrs. McKenzie‘s news obituary printed in Thursday’s edition of the Times.
Beaver Country Times – Jul 27, 1984
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I haven’t found an obituary for Esther’s husband, Orville, but this is his father:
Ernest Dale McKenzie
Earnest Dale McKenzie, 89, 526 Darlington Rd., Patterson Township, died Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1982, in his home.
Born Jan. 2, 1893, in Megs [Meigs] County, OH, he was a son of the late John and Annie Howell McKenzie. A resident of Beaver Valley for most of his life, he was employed for 42 years as a machine operator with Standard Horse Nail Corp., New Brighton, retiring in 1961. He was a member of YMCA Retired Men’s Club, New Brighton; Loyal Order of Moose, Beaver Falls, and Chippewa Senior Citizens.
Surviving are one son, Orville (Buss) McKenzie, Freemont, CA; one daughter, Mrs. Eugene (Odie) Bender, North Sewickley Township; a son-in-law, Eugene H. Weigle, North Sewickley Township; 11 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren; two stepsons, Robert Eaton, Enon Valley, and Melvin Eaton, New Galilee; seven step-grandchildren, 18 step-great-grandchildren and three step-great-great-grandchildren, and one sister, Ethel Aley, New Brighton.
He was preceded in death by two wives, Myrtle Langnecker McKenzie, in 1935, and Lida Cox McKenzie, in 1964; a daughter, Fern E. Weigle, in 1981; three brothers, Ray, in 1972; Roy, in 1961, and Don, in 1976, and one sister, Elzina Stock, in 1950.
Friends will be received all day today in CAMPBELL’S BEAVER FALLS, 14th Street and Eighth Avenue, where a service will be conducted Friday at 11 a.m.. with Rev. Frederick W. Simmel, pastor of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Beaver Falls, officiating.
Interment will follow in Sylvania Hills Memorial Park, Daugherty Township.
Beaver Country Times – Dec 30, 1982
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FORMER RESIDENT OF BEAVER DIES AFTER ACCIDENT
Simon B. Stanton and Nephew, Clyde Stanton, Fatally Hurt In California
Simon B. Stanton, 80, San Francisco, Cal., former well known resident of Beaver, died last Monday in the hospital at Fresno, Cal., of injuries and shock he suffered in an automobile accident about two weeks prior to his death. His nephew, Clyde Stanton, San Francisco, who was fatally injured in the same accident, died Wednesday. Frank Stanton, Beaver, brother of Clyde, left Friday evening by airplane for San Francisco to attend the funeral of his brother, Clyde, which which will be held Sunday.
LEFT HERE YEARS AGO
Funeral services for Simon B. Stanton were held Thursday in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Fay Congrove, Vellejo, Cal. Burial was in Cypress Lawn cemetery, San Francisco.
He left Beaver for San Francisco 25 years ago.
Surviving are: one son, James Stanton, Los Angeles, Cal.; two daughters, Mrs. John W. Hineman, Beaver, formerly of Rochester and Mrs. Congrove, Vellejo; one sister, Mrs. Sarah Miller, Scranton, Pa.; twelve grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
The Daily Times – Oct. 1, 1938
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Barger
Fred E. Barger, 52, of 849 Sixth Street, died Thursday afternoon, June 17, 1965, as result of a heart attack. Born in Houston, Texas, he had resided in Beaver and the Beaver area 27 years. He was a member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church, Beaver; St. James Lodge No. 457 F.&A.M., Beaver; Harmony Chapter, Royal Arch Masons and Scottish Rite, New Castle. He was employed as an assembler by Vanport Plant, Westinghouse Electric Corp., and was a veteran of World War 2, serving in the Air Force.
Surviving are his wife, Ruth Hineman Barger; three daughters, Mrs. James A. (Martha) Gordon, RD, Beaver; Mrs. Christy B. (Phyllis) Netherland, Beaver, and Mrs. Harry N. (Doris) Wallace, Beaver; four grandchildren; a step-son, Robert L. Albright, and two sisters, Mrs. John W. Hineman, Jr., Beaver, and Mrs. Thomas H. Remaley, Freedom. Friends will be received today from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 12 noon in the H. Hazen Wilson Jr. Funeral Home, Beaver, where funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m., with Rev. Ralph E. Lithgow, his pastor, officiating. Interment will be in Sylvania Hills Memorial Park.
Beaver County Times – Jun 18, 1965
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Ruth Hineman Barger
Ruth Hineman Barger, 97, of Beaver, passed away Monday, April 16, 2001, in the Villa St. Joseph, Baden.
Born Aug. 15, 1903, in Pittsburgh, a daughter of the late John W. and Eunice Stanton Hineman, she was a member of the Beaver Assembly of God Church, Brighton Township.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Fred E. Barger, whom she married Nov. 23, 1939; a son, Robert Albright; two brothers, Simon and John W. Jr. Hiineman, and a sister, Esther McKenzie.
Surviving are three daughters, Martha J. Gordon, Beaver, Phyllis Netherland, Brighton Township, and Doris Begley, Columbia, S.C.; a daughter-in-law, Lois Albright, Pittsburgh, 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
A service will be conducted today at 11 a.m. in the Beaver Assembly of God Church with her pastor, the Rev. Tim Michaux, officiating.
Interment will follow in Sylvania Hills Memorial Park.
Memorial donations may be made, if desired, to the Beaver Assembly of God Church, Dutch Ridge Road, Beaver, Pa. 15009.
The ZURIK FUNERAL HOME, Corner of Second and Market Streets, Beaver, is in charge of arrangements.
Beaver County Times – Apr 19, 2001
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Virginia Dow Remaley
NEW SEWICKLEY TOWNSHIP
Virginia Dow Remaley, 79, of New Sewickley Township, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003, in The Medical Center, Beaver, surrounded by her loving family.
Born Feb. 22, 1924, in Sedalia, Missouri, she was the daughter of the late Frederick and Mary E. Guda Barger. She was a member of St. Cecelia Roman Catholic Parish, Rochester.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas H. Remaley, in 1984; a brother, Fred Barger, and one sister, Mary Hineman.
She is survived by one son, Anthony T. Remaley and his special friend Cheryl Owens and her son, Johnathan Lobley, all of Tialauten, Oreg.; two daughters and sons-in-law, Virginia T. and Rich Sabol, New Sewickley Township; Karen R. and Joseph A. Laure Jr., Chippewa; five grandsons, Richard Sabol, of North Sewickley Township; Joseph A. Laure III and his wife, Leann, of Alliance, Ohio; Thomas W. Laure, of York, Pa.; Samuel P. Laure and his special friend, Kelly Dorn, Rochester Township; two granddaughters, Paula Casello and her husband Dean, Harmony Township; Jocelyn Sabol and her special friend, Darin Chmura, Baden; four great-grandsons, Jimmy and Dean Casello, Harmony Township; Nicholas French, Baden and Macagey Laure, Alliance, Ohio; four great-granddaughters, Elise and Emily Casello, Harmony Township; Julianna Debona, Baden and Taylor Laure, Rochester Township, and several nieces and nephews.
Friends will be received today from 7 to 9 p.m. in the WILLIAM MURPHY FUNERAL HOME INC., 349 Adams St. Rochester. A Mass of Christian burial will be held on Friday, at 10 a.m. in the St. Cecelia Roman Catholic Church, Rochester.
Interment will follow in St. Cecelia Catholic Cemetery, Daugherty Township.
A Christian wake service will be held today at 8:30 p.m. in the funeral home.
Saturday Times – Nov 20, 2003 Beaver Co. PA
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