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William Slater Ii Funeral Service

Friday, November 9, 2012

Funeral Home, Police Station to Accept Trucks for Maddox 'Indefinitely'

Maddox Derkosh of Whitehall Borough was buried on Friday after he was mauled to death by the African painted dogs at the Pittsburgh Zoo.

William Slater II Funeral Service in Scott Township, the place where friends and family visited 2-year-old Maddox Derkosh on Thursday after his tragic death at the Pittsburgh Zoo, will continue for the immediate future to collect toy construction trucks to be donated to a children's Christmas charity in Maddox's memory. Original plans were to collect trucks at Slater Funeral Service through Thursday, but a representative of the funeral service said on Friday that the toys collection will continue "indefinitely." The same can be said for the Whitehall Police Department, which serves the Derkosh family's home municipality of Whitehall Borough. A representative of the police station said that trucks can continue to be dropped off at the …

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