JANE BANNING KATSELAS

KATSELAS
JANE BANNING
On Tuesday, January 2, 2018, Jane Banning Katselas. Born in Connellsville, PA, Jane graduated from high school, attended Fairfax Hall in Virginia and studied painting and design at Parsons School of Design in New York, the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Tech, where, in 1950 she met by accident her husband-to-be architect, Tasso Katselas on the last day of school. She became his harshest critic while they worked closely together in those early years. When Tasso was working out of their home, Jane was draftsman, renderer and bookkeeper. Later, during the design of the new Pittsburgh International Airport, she scoffed at the layout and number of restroom facilities and insisted on their increase in the final design. Jane was an active painter and muralist, with work on her husband's buildings at East Hills School and the North Side Community Campus. She was involved in a variety of civic and social groups. She designed the poster for the first Three Rivers Arts Festival, and ran the Family Foundation with grants to help foster educational improvements and growth at the Propel School, The Woodlands, St. Vincent and others. She is survived by her husband; and daughters, Dana Katselas of Ossining, NY, Lisa Katselas of Hastings- on-Hudson, NY; and granddaughter, Drew McCarron; sister, Mary Ann Opperman of Princeton, NJ; and cousin, Bill Sechler of Connellsville. Friends will be received at JOHN A. FREYVOGEL SONS, INC., 4900 Centre Avenue at Devonshire Street (freyvogelfuneralhome.com) on Tuesday, January 9, 2018, from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Funeral and interment will be private. Remembrances may be made to The Woodlands School, United Way, St. Vincent College or Point Park University.