Denise Eileen Tobin

DENISE EILEEN COLE TOBIN, 66, BETTER KNOWN TO HER RELATIVES AS “PUNKY”, PASSED AWAY ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28 AT ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL AFTER A SHORT BATTLE AGAINST LUNG CANCER. BORN ON SEPTEMBER 19,1958 AND RAISED IN MURRYSVILLE, SHE WAS THE YOUNGEST OF FOUR DAUGHTERS TO MARGRET SHIELS COLE AND JOHN RAYMOND COLE. SHE GRADUATED FROM FRANKLIN REGIONAL IN 1976 AND WORKED FOR THE NEXT 42 YEARS, MOST OF THOSE SPENT AS THE OFFICE MANAGER FOR DERNAR AND ASSOCIATES, LLC. RECENTLY, SHE DID BOOKS FOR ANGELO’S CUCINA & CATERING AS WELL.

ENGAGED IN IRELAND IN 1989 AND MARRIED ON SEPTEMBER 22, 1990 AT FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF MURRYSVILLE, THIS UNION CREATED HER GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT, THE RAISING OF HER TWO DAUGHTERS INTO CONFIDENT, PRODUCTIVE YOUNG ADULTS. 

AND SOME MIGHT ALSO ADD HER ABILITY TO REMAIN MARRIED TO WALLIE FOR 34 YEARS ;) FAMILY VACATIONS WERE ALWAYS SPENT AT THE BEACH WHERE SHE RESTORED HER SOUL AND FOUND SOME INNER PEACE AND HAPPINESS. 

DENISE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND WALLACE NOEL TOBIN, OF GREENSBURG, CAITLIN COLE TOBIN, HOLLYWOOD, MD AND KELSEY MEGHAN TOBIN, DUBLIN, IRELAND. ALSO SURVIVING ARE HER THREE SISTERS, DEBI & DENNIS CUNNINGHAM, GREENSBURG, DONNA & BURT SIMON OF NIAGARA FALLS, CANADA AND DOROTHY COLE AND RICHARD ZEAK OF CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP. IN ADDITION, SHE HAS 4 NEICES AND 3 NEPHEWS, MICHELLE (DONNIE) MARUSKO, TOMM (AMANDA) JOHNSON, DENISE (JOHN) BAUER, BURT SIMON III, LAURA (JOHN) GODDARD, CHARITY (FRED) RODRIGUEZ & COLIN TOBIN.

Family and Friends will be received on Friday Jan 3 from 2-4 & 6-8 pm in the KEPPLE-GRAFT FUNERAL HOME, INC 524 N. Main St. Greensburg where Denise’s funeral service will be held on Saturday, Jan 4, at 10:30 am. Interment will follow in Twin Valley Memorial Park, Delmont. IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, DONATIONS TO POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE (PKD) FOUNDATION AT PKDCURE.ORG. Online condolences are welcome at www.kepplegraft.com