Obituary: Antoinette Sebelia

Antoinette Sebelia, 91, of Canonsburg, recently of Strabane Woods, died Tuesday, March 20, 2012 in Townview Health and Rehabilitation Center.

She was born Jan. 17, 1921 in Midland, a daughter of Dewey and Mary Grego Leveto.

She was a member of St. Patrick’s Parish, where she was a member of the Christian Mothers. She was active in Canonsburg TOPS and was a lifelong avid card player, and played cards in the same group of close friends for more than 60 years. On Nov. 15, 1941, she married Louis D. Sebelia, who died July 19, 2000. Surviving are her three daughters, Barbara Bender of Washington, Linda (Jay) Bloom of Barrington, RI, and Margaret “Peggy (Phillip) Sollon of Canonsburg; two brothers, Samuel Leveto of Atlanta, and Carl Leveto of Niles, Ohio; her sister, LaVerne (Anthony) Colaizzo of Canonsburg; seven grandchildren, Rebecca (Jeremy) Kronman, Lorie (Eric) Untch, Lauren (Bill) Clifford, Jessica Bloom, Elizabeth Sollon, Phillip (Heather) Sollon, and Louis Sollon; nice great-grandchildren, Jacob, Benjamin, David, Ava and Alex Kronman, Nathan and Stephanie Untch, Olivia Sollon and Olivia Clifford; and several nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents and her husband, she was preceded in death by her brothers Chester and Lawrence “Lonnie” Leveto.

Friends will be received from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and from 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Sollon Funeral Home, 30 E. College St. Canonsburg.

Christian Mothers of St. Patrick Parish will recite the Rosary in the funeral home at 3 p.m. Friday. Departing prayers will be held in the funeral home at 12:30 p.m. Saturday followed by a mass of Christian burial in St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Canonsburg, at 1 p.m.

Interment will follow in he St. Patrick Cemetery in Canonsburg.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to St. Patrick’s Church in her name.

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