Paul Jurovcik Sr., 59, of Somerset Township, Bentleyville, died unexpectedly Saturday, September 26, 1998, in Allegheny University Hospitals-Canonsburg. He had formerly been employed at Combustion Engineering in East Monongahela. He was then a teacher for 11 years in the Avella and Chartiers-Houston school districts. He was a former principal at Crossroads Elementary School. Mr. Jurovcik retired from Intermediate Unit I in California after 17 years as an itinerant vision teacher in Washington, Fayette and Greene counties. He had been certified in orientation mobility and taught the visually handicapped. He also was a former summer adjunct professor of orientation mobility at the University of Pittsburgh. From 1993 to 1996, he was a real estate agent for Frontier Realty in McMurray. He had been a Somerset Township auditor for 12 years. Mr. Jurovcik was a member of Christ United Methodist Church in Bethel Park, a life member of the Pennsylvania State Education Association and the National Education Association and a member of the National Chapter of AARP. On April 8, 1998, he celebrated 37 years of marriage with his wife, Martha Lee Kline Jurovcik, who survives. Also surviving are two daughters, Beth Ann Jurovcik-Walsh of Belleview, Fla., and Mary Martha Jurovcik, at home; a son, Paul Jurovcik Jr. of Washington; four sisters, Anna Bosdosh of Ellsworth, Mildred Fragello of Monongahela, Carolyn Kokoska of Tempe, Ariz., and Barbara Jean Falappi of Monongahela; and a paternal aunt. In addition to his parents, deceased is a brother, Joseph John Jurovcik Jr. Copyright ©1998 Observer Publishing Co.Last updated Monday, September 28, 1998Paul Jurovcik Sr.
Former principal and Intermediate Unit I teacher
He was born August 5, 1939, in Crackerjack, Monongahela, a son of the late Joseph John Jurovcik Sr. and Stephanie Martinko Jurovcik.