Lola Frances McMullen Buzash, 83, died Wednesday, on Long Island, New York.

Born March 22, 1922, she was a daughter of Carl and Frances McMullen.

She graduated from Slippery Rock State Teachers College in 1940 and worked as a speech pathologist in the Army hospital in Deshawn, Okla.

Following World War II, she married Gabrial A. Buzash of Butler, whom she had met in college.

Mrs. Buzash earned her masters degree from Penn State University, and did doctoral work at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

A life-long member of the American Speech and Hearing Association, she had a long and active career in speech therapy and audiology with the United Cerebral Palsy organization in Pennsylvania; Slippery Rock State Teachers College; Berea Public Schools in Berea, Ohio, and Bridgeton Public Schools in Bridgeton, N.J.

After her retirement in 1981, she pursued her interests in genealogy and the early American history of Western Pennsylvania. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was also an avid reader and knitter.

She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Gabrial A. Buzash; her daughter and son-in-law, Elizabeth and Fred Pollert of Setauket, N.Y., and two grandchildren, Annette and Frederick.

BUZASH — Friends of Lola Frances McMullen Buzash, who died Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005, will be received from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the GEIBEL FUNERAL HOME, 201 E. Cunningham St. Graveside services and burial will follow at noon at the Slippery Rock Cemetery with the Rev. Pamela Gardner of the Slippery Rock United Methodist Church officiating.