Drotoz, Steve

Obituaries

Steve Drotoz
Feb. 20, 1921-Nov. 7, 1987



Niles Daily Star, Monday, November 9, 1987, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library


Steve Drotoz, 66, 2119 Spansail Drive, Niles died Saturday at 8:20 p.m., at St. Joseph's Medical Center in South Bend, Ind. following a brief illness.

He was born Feb. 20, 1921, in Twin Rocks, Pa. and lived in this area since 1950.  He was a World War II veteran, having served in the U.S. Army Air Force and was a retired employee of the Torrington Co.

He married the former Dorothy E. Butterworth June 28, 1943 in Waycross, Ga. She survives.

Other survivors include a son, Bill of Niles; a daughter, Helen of Niles; a brother, William of Detroit; three sisters, Margaret McNamara of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Helen Hanson of Ocala, Fla. and Ann Dadio of Brooklyn, N.Y., and five grandchildren.  A son, Steven, died Nov. 11, 1967.

Services are Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Halbritter Funeral Home, where Rev. David Henderson, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Niles, will officiate. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles.

Friends may call today from 6 to 9 .m. at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to the F.O.P. Little League Baseball.