Andrew Hereshko , 83, Mahanoy Plane , passed away peacefully Monday morning at Hershey Medical Center, Hershey.

Born in Mahanoy Plane he was a son of the late Zachary and Julia ( Chupinka ) Hereshko. He had been employed as a machine operator for Zapata Industries until his retirement.

He was a member of St. John The Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, Maizeville, a US Army veteran of the Korean War, a graduate of the former Gilberton High School and an avid Eagles fan. There was nothing he enjoyed more than watching sports with his grandsons.

He was preceded in death by three brothers and three sisters; Metro, John, Stephen and Mary Hereshko, Anne Tinker and Eva Rusinko.

Andrew is survived by his wife Joyce A. ( Flannery ) Hereshko with whom he would have celebrated 59 years of marriage on Nov. 30th, his daughter Karyn Andrea wife of Stephen Mazur, Frackville, his grandsons; Derek J. Andrew Flail and his fiancé Anna Malocu, Stephen Nicholas Mazur and Alexander Andrew Mazur, his brother Harry Hereshko, New Cumberland and his sister Terry Mills, CA, also several nieces and nephews.

Parastas service will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday from the Thomas M. Sullivan Funeral Home, Frackville, with Rev. Petro Zvarych, officiating. Interment, with full military honors, will be in Indiantown Gap National Cemetery on Monday at 11:30 a.m.. Friends may call at the funeral home on Saturday morning from 9 a.m. until time of service and from 10:30 until 11:30 a.m.

In lieu of flowers the family prefers contributions, in Andrews name, to the Memorial Fund of St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, 243 S. Middle St., Frackville, PA, 17931