![]() This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos You may not upload any more photos to this memorial Pinkerton Home Inc., 1014 California Ave., Avalon, where services will be held at 11 a.m. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. He was predeceased by his wife, Elizabeth Maciborski Woessner. Woessner, of Franklin Park, and Thomas Daniel Woessner, of Denver four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Yetter, of West View, and Virginia Madden, of Ross brothers, William C. Woessner is survived by his son, Kenneth Edward Woessner, of Bridgeville daughters, Kay E. ![]() Woessner was a member of North Hills Lodge 715 and the Etna Elks. "He worked hard and played hard."īorn Main the North Side, Mr. "He was a hard worker," said Donna Lee Woessner, his daughter-in-law. But he persevered, supplementing his income by rising at 5 a.m. His business suffered during the 1970s, when long hair was all the rage. He had a nickname for all of his long-time customers. Woessner opened his first barbershop in the 1930s in Avalon and later moved his business to Perry Highway in West View. "He realized his dreams later on in his life." "He eventually got to drive the trolley," his son said. HARD WEST PINKERTON GRAVE WINDOWSHe also used his woodworking skills to restore the windows and doors of the trolley exhibits. Woessner joined the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in Washington, Washington County, as a volunteer trolley operator and museum tour guide. "He took it so hard that he didn't retry." "He was trying to be courteous, but the inspector failed him," said his son, Kenneth Edward Woessner. When he took the road test, he picked up passengers in between trolley stops. During a 2001 interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, he recalled ringing the bell "all the way from the Garden Theater (on East Ohio Street) to West View and back."Īs a grown man, he was eager to follow in his father's footstep. Woessner spent much of his boyhood riding the rails. Woessner helped keep alive the story of the trolleys that once crisscrossed the region.Īs the son of a Pittsburgh Railway Co. He won the competition, but organizers absconded with the $30,000 in prize money. In a 1955 contest, during the borough's 50th anniversary celebration, he decorated his barbershop with stuffed and mounted animals and Indian arrowheads to make it resemble a frontiersman's cabin. Woessner turned his home and barber shop into repositories of colorful local lore and sepia-toned photographs. ![]() Well-known as the unofficial historian of West View, where he was raised, Mr. Woessner, owner of a barber shop for more than 50 years, died Friday, Oct. Not only did Homer Woessner breathe and live the history of North Hills, he also rode on it. ![]()
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