Coleman Steve Kopcsak |
| Posted 2009-03-05 by Judy Wight Branson |
| The Daily Courier, Prescott, Arizona Friday, March 9, 2007 Coleman Steve Kopcsak Coleman Steve Kopcsak,90, a retired industrial engineer, died Wednesday, March 7, 2007, at his home. Memorial service will be 6 p.m. Saturday, March 10, 2007, at Thompson's Harveson & Cole Funeral Home, 702 Eighth Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas. In lieu of flowers, his memory may be honored with a gift to VITAS Hospice, 2501 Parkview Drive, Fort Worth, Texas, 76102. Coleman Steve Kopcsak was born Oct. 7, 1916, in Munhall, Pa., son of the late George and Mary Gaspar Kopcsak. He graduated from high school in Greensburg, Pa., in 1933 and was recruited to Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh on a full football scholarship. He was quarterback of the team and kicked the winning field goal against Notre Dame in 1936. He was drafted by the Cleveland Rams, but never played professionally due to an injury received during an all-star game. Coleman married Anne Maria Simoncic in 1937 by eloping to West Virginia. They returned to Pittsburgh and Coleman began his career as an industrial engineer with J&L Steel in Pittsburgh, working through the years with Armstrong Cork, Oliver Iron & Steel and Morrison Steel Products. In 1954 he began working for Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. in Ravenswood, W.Va., at that time, the largest rolling mill east of the Mississippi. He retired from Kaiser in 1981, working at the corporate headquarters in Oakland, Calif. Coleman was a member of the B.P.O.E. in Prescott, Ariz., and a Roman Catholic by faith. Survivors include his wife of 69 years, Anne; children, George Kopcsak and his wife, Michele of Browntown, Va., Carole Durham and her husband, Robert of Fort Worth, Texas, Christopher Kopcsak and his wife, Patti of Arcadia, Calif., Kathleen Verderber and her husband, Fred of Sacramento, Calif.; eight grandchildren; fourteen great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Arrangements were en-trusted to Thompson's Harveson & Cole Funeral Home and Crematory, 702 Eighth Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas. Information provided by survivors. |
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