John Dudas

John Dudas, 84, of Meadville, died Tuesday, August 23, 1977, at Grove Manor Nursing Home, Grove City, where he had been a patient two weeks.  He had been ill several months.

He was born at Besovic, Czechoslovakia, May 21, 1893, a son of John and Anna Zelyes Dudas.  He married Barbara Hreschak who died in 1954 and subsequently married Leona Rhoades in 1969.  She died in 1974.

Mr. Dudas was a member of First Presbyterian Church and Slovak Lodge of Lakewood.  He was employed from 1913 to 1951 in farming in Beaver Center;  from 1951 to 1961 at Talon Division of Textron; and from 1961 to 1969 at PA Tool and Gages, Inc.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Raymond (Ann) Boyer of Grove City; two sons, John Dudas, Jr. of Lakewood, OH and George a. Dudas of Meadville; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Services were held at Waid Funeral Home.

Interment was in Greendale Cemetery.