Sisters, Mary and Margaret (also Margarete) Sanphilip, graduated from the school of nursing in 1932. They were the daughters of Joseph and Sarah Eleanor (Devenney) Sanphilip of Claysville, Washington County, Penna. Mr. Sanphilip was born in Italy.

1930 Federal Census, Claysville, Washington County, PA
Joseph Sanphilip, Head, 48, b Italy, Salesman, grocery & fruit
Eleanor, Wife, 41,b PA
Mary, daughter, b PA
Margarite, daughter, 20, b PA
Beatrice, daughter, 18, b PA
Eleanor, daughter, 11, b PA
Joseph, son, 14, b PA
Josephine, daughter, 8, b PA
Theodosia, daughter, b PA

In January 1942, Mary Sanphilip, nurse, was a resident of Friendship Avenue when the residence caught fire and claimed the lives of two women; one was Marie Gabriel, a St. Francis graduate. Mary sustained brush burns. NEWSPAPER STORIES

MARY F. SANPHILIP, born on December 20, 1908 in Washington County, Penna., served in the U. S. Army during World War II, from October 1, 1942 to August 12, 1945.

Mary married Herbert Edgar Styer on January 26, 1946 in Erie, Penna. He died on April 1, 1964 at Hamot Hospital, Erie, Penna. He was a resident of Erie at the time of his death. He is buried in Meadville, Crawford County, Penna.

In 1950, when Mary F. Styer applied for WWII compensation in Pennsylvania, she was a resident of Erie, Penna.

Mary Sanphilip Styer apparently remarried and her surname became Bayle. She died on February 23, 2001; last residence Glendale, California.

MARGARET SANPHILIP has not been readily found. She was born on January 3, 1910 and she is named in a list of Pennsylvania Registered Nurses in 1940, a resident of Claysville. She is not found in the 1940 Federal Census. The only other record found is her father's 1964 death record, in which Margaret Sanphilip, Claysville, was the informant.

A sister, Theodosia "Theo", age 15, died at Montefiore Hospital, Pittsburgh, on Jany 22, 1939. Her obituary indicates that sister, Mary, was a nurse at Montefiore Hospital and Margaret was a nurse at Hamot Hospital in Erie. Another sister, Beatrice Mombrea (1912-1986), also lived in Erie.