Nov 24, 2017

Victoria Helen “Alice” Chuburko’s life began October 17, 1924, with her birth in a farm house on Plum Run Road, Smith Township, and came to its conclusion 93 years later, in her home, also in Smith Township, Friday, November 24, 2017. She was the seventh, and youngest, child of Achille and Maria Tonetti Fiorelli.

On June 26, 1948, she married Steve Chuburko, who died December 2, 2007.

Deceased are her parents; four sisters, Lena (Rocco) Trinoni, Anna (Bruno) Ceresa, Jean (Angelo) Strapazzon and Mary (George) Gavatorta; a brother, Ralph (Gloria Tessaro) Fiorelli; and her in-laws, John and Mary Chuburko.

Surviving are a sister, Lillie Ragnoli; three daughters, Mary Ann Schwartz (Mike Tome) of Smith Township, Carol (the late Robert) Hammel of Parkersburg, W.Va., and Donna (Don) McBee of Racoon Township; a son, Steven (Barbara) Chuburko of New Haven, Ohio; 10 grandchildren, Scott (Amy) Scariot, Kerry (Jerry) Blake, Bradley (Angela) Scariot, Alexa McBee, Margy (Frank) Prochaska, Andrew (Trisha) Pascarella, Robert Pascarellla, Zachary Hammel, Danielle (Ryan) Querry and Erika Chuburko; eight great-grandchildren, Benjamin and Victoria Scariot, Kevin and Logan Blake, Henry and Hunter Prochaska and Kara and Caden Pascarella; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Chuburko’s caregivers and Gateway Hospice provided her with exemplary care.

She was a lifelong member of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Burgettstown, including the Christian Mothers and Catholic Daughters parish associations.

Mrs. Chuburko loved to bake and donate the goods to family, friends, neighbors and for organizational fundraising. It was all so good. Her calling in life was as a wife and mother, however, she also worked in the community briefly at Billy Boy Pizza and was a sales representative for Sarah Coventry Jewelry, having received several sales awards during her tenure. She was a gardener, seamstress, cook and housekeeper extraordinaire, dedicated to family, friends, church and country. She enjoyed her friends and played with a 500 card club in her younger years. She and her husband enjoyed several cruises after the family was raised and always visited their grown children to help whenever possible. They were awesome parents.

Guests are welcome to bid farewell from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday and 10 to 10:30 a.m., the time of departing prayers, Monday, November 27, in Lee & Martin Funeral Home, 73 Highland Avenue, Burgettstown, PA 15021. A Mass of Christian Burial will follow at 11 a.m. Monday in Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church, 1109 Main Street, Burgettstown. Interment will follow in Grandview Cemetery, 931 State Route 18, Florence.

If so desired, memorial contributions may be made to Burgettstown Community Library, 2 Kerr Street, Burgettstown; Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church, Burgettstown; or Veterans of Foreign Wars Barto Post, 65 Run Street, Slovan, PA 15078.