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Helen Catherine Manack Zolock, 94, of Belle Vernon, died Oct. 23, 2013, at Southmont Presbyterian Care Center in Washington, Pa. She was born on Oct. 18, 1919, in Van Meter, Pa. Helen is the daughter of deceased Steve Manack Sr. and Helen C. Arva of Belle Vernon. Helen was married to Michael Zolock Jr., a foreman in the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Co. in Monessen, until his death in 1985 for 46 years. Michael Zolock Jr. was the son of deceased Michael Zolyak Sr. and Elizabeth Dorcsak of Belle Vernon. In 1940, Helen and Mike purchased Gauls Park on Broad Avenue in Belle Vernon. On the four acres, Helen spent 74 years creating her Heaven on earth flower gardens. Today they are known as the Zolock Gardens. But many know them as the people with the flower gardens on Broad Avenue. For over 35 years the gardens were open to the public on the weekends for wedding pictures at no charge. Helen is survived by five children, Stephen A. Zolock, and his wife, Sarah, of Belle Vernon, Barbara Ann (Zolock) O'hara, and her husband, Paul, of Roscoe, Helen Elizabeth (Zolock) Sadler, and her husband, Earl, of Fallowfield Township, Michael John Zolock, and his wife, Mary Gordanier, of Berthoud, Colo., and David Thomas Zolock, and his wife, Terry, of San Antonio, Texas. Helen is also survived by 12 grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren, and a number of nieces and nephews. Surviving brothers and sisters are, Catherine Manack Matson, Margaret Manack Weaver, Joseph Manack, James Manack and deceased brother John Buck Manack . Visitation will be held 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the PARZYNSKI FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATIONS, Family Owned and Operated, 626 Broad Ave., Belle Vernon, 724-929-6183. Prayer service will be held Saturday at 8:45 a.m. in the funeral home followed by funeral Mass at 9:30 a.m. at St. Sebastian Roman Catholic Church with the Rev. Msgr. Roger A. Statnick, pastor, as celebrant. Interment will take place in Belle Vernon Cemetery. Members of St. Sebastian parish will pray the Rosary for the departed soul of Helen Zolock, 3 p.m. Friday in the funeral home. Condolences accepted at the funeral home's website, http://www.parzynskifuneralhome.com.

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