David A. May, 69, of 2280 Orangeville Road, Hermitage, Pennsylvania, died at 1:35 P.M. Thursday, April 16, 2009, in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Horizon Hospital, Farrell, after an extended illness. He was born May 11, 1939, in Sharon, a son of John D. and Ann D. Galbreath May, and graduated from Sharon High School. Following eight years of service in the United States Army, during which he served in Germany; Geneva, N.Y.; Vietnam, where he was a helicopter gunner; and Leavenworth, Kansas, where he was a military police officer, he returned to Sharon and worked in plant protection at the former Sharon Transformer Division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation for 19 years, was a mail carrier briefly for the U.S. Postal Service, and then was employed in security for 12 years at Youngstown Air Reserve Base, from which he retired in 2001. He was a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Sharon, and was preceded in death just one month earlier by his wife, Classmate Susan Marie (Cleary) May, whom he married June 10, 1961. Surviving are: four daughters, Vickie Hosick and her husband Regis, Sharon; Beth Thompson, South Pymatuning Township; Tracey Schultz and her husband D. Brian, Transfer; and Jenny M. Bell, South Pymatuning Township; eight grandchildren; one great-grandchild; two sisters, Darlee Jackson, Sharon, and Beth May-Taylor, New Castle; and a brother, Jon D. May, West Salem Township. A Requiem Eucharist was celebrated Tuesday, April 21st, at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Sharon, and burial with military honors was in Oakwood Cemetery, Hermitage. |
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