Kaufman

John James Kaufman, 63, of Gibsonia, Adams Township, died Wednesday morning at Fosnight's Personal Care in Richland Township.

Born in Shaler Township, March 7, 1947, he was the son of the late George and Anna Marie Rehak Kaufman.

He was a transportation and logistics manager for ServiStar in East Butler, had worked for Eckard Drug in RIDC Park and most recently worked at Costco in Cranberry Township.

He was a member of the North Way Christian Community in Wexford.

He had served in the Air National Guard.

Surviving are his wife, Sharon Laconi Kaufman, who he married May 23, 1981; a daughter, Kelly E. Kaufman Sjol and her husband, Isaac, of Pittsburgh; two sons, Jonathan S. Kaufman and his wife, Jill Reading, of State College and Jordan N. Kaufman of Gibsonia; a sister, Joanne Kaufman of Pittsburgh; and a brother, Donald Kaufman and his wife, Pat, of Oxford, Ohio.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Pati Doughman Kaufman, who he married Aug. 11, 1969, and who died in 1980.

<B>KAUFMAN</B> — Friends of John James Kaufman, who died Wednesday, March 17, 2010, will be received from 7 to 9 p.m. today and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the <B>McDonald-Aeberli Funeral Home</B>, 238 Crowe Ave., Mars. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Mount Royal Cemetery, Shaler Township.Memorials may be made to UCSF Memory and Aging Center — FTD Research, payable to UCSF Foundation and include "Memory and Aging Center," with memo line "in memory of John J. Kaufman" and mail to UCSF Memory and Aging Center, P.O. Box 54339, San Francisco, CA 94145-0339.Directions and condolences available at www.mcdonald-aeberli.com.