Westmoreland-Armstrong County PA Archives News.....BEATTY, Roscoe and Oscar - Twin Brothers Retired by Vandergrift Foundry May 5, 1965
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"Valley Daily News", Tarentum, Pa., Wednesday, May 5, 1965 May 5, 1965
TWIN BROTHERS RETIRED BY VANDERGRIFT FOUNDRY Twins Roscoe W. and Robert
Oscar Beatty, Vandergrift, pushed their cards into the slot of the time clock
at Vandergrift plant of United Engineering and Foundry Co. Friday and strolled
into retirement.
For Robert Oscar, who worked in the company's machine shop for 39 years,
retirement will mean relaxation and preparation for his annual jaunts into
Pennsylvania's woodlands in search of small and big game during the hunting
seasons.
For Roscoe, who worked as a locomotive craneman at the local plant since
1944, retirement will provide the opportunity to pursue his favorite hobby,
fixing clocks.
Both men report success in their hobbies. Robert Oscar last hunting
season killed a 267-pound bear while hunting at Clear Creek Jefferson County,
and Roscoe has developed a manual dexterity which enabled him to fix, among
other things, 'a complicated German cuckoo clock, which was smashed on
shipboard. It cuckoos, too.'
Roscoe and Robert Oscar (he insisted we use his second name, 'because
everybody knows me by that, rather than Bob') were born April 24, 1900 in
Dayton, Pa., sons of Steward (sic) M. and Estella Wilson Beatty.
Roscoe came to Vandergrift in 1920. For five years he worked at UEF,
then worked in a garage in Avonmore, 'and did other jobs for a couple of
years', and then went to Mansfield, Ohio, where he was employed in the
assembly shop of Hughes Keenan Co. for 15 years. He returned to Vandergrift
and rejoined UEF.
He and his wife, the former Blanche Dillinger of Homer City, reside in
130 Sumner Ave. The couple has three daughters: Mrs. Wayne (Cora) Davis,
Mansfield, Ohio; Mrs. Ralph (Gladys) Kuhn, Doylestown, Pa., and Mrs. Mildred
Gontner, Vandergrift, and one son,, Roscoe, Jr., stationed with the U.S. Air
Force in New Mexico. Another son, Harry was killed in an auto accident in
1949.
In addition, the couple has six grandchildren, Blanche Elizabeth Davis; Kurt,
Kirsten and Karl Kuhn and Melody Gontner.
Robert Oscar, who came to Vandergrift in 1926, is married to the former
Verna Hollenbaugh of Dayton, Pa.
The couple, which resides in 132 Jefferson Ave., has two children:
Eugene Beatty, Vandergrift, and Mrs. Arthur (Evelyn) McBryar, Vandergrift, and
two grandchildren: Mrs. Robert (Donna) Waltenbaugh, Indiana, and William
Beatty, attending Indiana State College.
Roscoe attends Trinity United Presbyterian Church, Vandergrift, and Robert
Oscar attends Vandergrift Church of God.
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