Daniel Patch

Daniel Patch was the first correspondent for an open brethren assembly known as St. Clair Bible Chapel, later South Hills Bible Chapel, now an independent Bible church called The Bible Chapel with several campuses in the Pittsburgh metro in Pennsylvania, and one campus in central Florida. It was initially a hive from Beechwood Bible Chapel, which is now Brown's Hill Bible Chapel.

Daniel Patch was born on Dec. 24, 1927 at Homewood, Beaver, Pittsburgh, PA, a son of Arthur Patch (b. 1898 Perivolia, Arcadia, Greece) & Margaret Gulla Patch (b. 1897 Austria - d. 1955 McKeesport, PA). His parents resided 1949 in Dravosburg, PA, his father employed as a cook. He died Oct. 5, 2003 in Pittsburgh.

He was employed (1950) as a patent clerk, or tracer, for the United Foundry, which manufactured rolling mill machinery 1901-1968 until a merger rebranding it as Wean-United, rebranded several more times, finally as UEFC, Inc., which dissolved in 2019.

On Jan. 25, 1949, he married Regina Mae Phillips (b. 1928 Clairton, PA), daughter of a millworker named Daniel Phillips and his wife Narine Barrickman Phillips who were neighbors of Daniel's parents in Dravosburg. They had at least one child, Daniel Patch, Jr.

Sources

• Ancestry.com
• LOI: 1965:8-9