Alex Wagner

Alex Wagner, 56, of Masontown, passed away in his home on Monday, July 15, 2013 surrounded by his loving family. He was born in N. Charleroi on November 30, 1956, a son of the late Thomas W. Wagner and Lauralee Wagner, who survives and resides in Rostraver Twp. Until his illness with lymphoma, Alex was the Information Technology Director of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Human Services (S.P.H.S.), a position he has held since 2007. Survivors, in addition to his mother, include his wife, Dawn Barnhart Wagner, three daughters and one son-in-law, Kristin Anderson of Pittsburgh, Katlyn and Alex Migyanko of Uniontown and Lyndsay Wagner and her boyfriend Corie Smith of Masontown, a sister and brother-in-law, Heather Ann and Michael Johnson of Bel Air, MD, a brother, Lee Wagner of Bellefonte, his mother-in-law and father-in-law, Carole and George Barnhart of McClellandtown, his maternal grandmother, Mary Solomon Yapchanyk of Belle Vernon, a sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Janelle and Travis Sisk of Chesapeake, VA, two aunts and one uncle including a special aunt, Carol Sue Bertovich of Monessen, a niece and three nephews, Garrett and Graham Johnson and Garrett and Peyton Sisk, his three best friends, Kenny Rockwell, Jay Luckey and Roger Sack, and his four pets, Chico “The Man”, Cleo, Joe and S.K. In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by his maternal grandfather, Russell Yapchanyk. Friends will be received 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. Thursday in the Ferguson Funeral Home and Crematory, Inc., 724-929-5300, 700 Broad Avenue, Belle Vernon. www.FergusonFuneralHomeAndCrematory.com Additional visitation will be Friday from 6 until 7 P.M. in the Whitehouse Free Methodist Church, Route 857 / Springhill Furnace Road, Whitehouse, PA. Alex’s Celebration of Life Service will begin at 7 P.M. in the church with Pastor Kenny Rockwell officiating. If friends wish, memorial donations may be made to the Whitehouse Free Methodist Church Benevolence Fund. Dawn and her family would like to express their gratitude for the care and compassion given to Alex while at the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center at West Virginia University Hospitals, Morgantown, WV and for his home care by Amedisys Home Hospice.

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Alex Wagner

November 30, 1956 - July 15, 2013