Janet Frances Parry

She was born October 20, 1943 in Greentree, a daughter of the late Frank E. and Viola DePaolo Cinker.

Mrs. Parry had worked as a paramedic and security officer of U.S. Steel at the Edgar J. Thompson Works. She helped organize ambulance service in Clairton and West Mifflin and volunteered as a paramedic. Mrs. Parry was a paramedic instructor at for the Community College of Allegheny County South Campus. She had also served as a volunteer working with homeless people at the Orr Center in Pittsburgh.

She enjoyed hunting, fishing, and gardening.

Surviving are her husband, Henry J. Parry whom she married October 15, 1982; a son Robert Sobczak of Washington; a daughter Shari Crothers of Tidioute; and two brothers, Bill Gibellino of Tucson, AZ; and Butch Gibellino of Harrisburg.

Friends will be received 2 to 4 p.m. & 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at Behm Funeral Homes Inc., 182 West High St., Waynesburg, where a blessing service will be held at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, November 19, 2013 with Rev. Richard J. Thompson officiating. Interment will be in Holy Souls Catholic Cemetery, Campbell’s Run Road, Coraopolis. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the National Kidney Foundation at www.kidney.org .