The following is text from 1958 & 1959 newspaper articles.

State Trooper Stephen R. Gyurke, 29, of Somerset, badly injured in a Pennsylvania Turnpike mishap last week, died Sunday morning in Frick Memorial Hospital, Mt. Pleasant.

Gyurke was crushed between two tractor-trailers Thursday after he had stopped one of the vehicles about five miles east of New Stanton. Besides suffering facial, shoulder, head and internal injuries, the trooper had both legs amputated above the knee. According to investigating officers. Gyurke had stopped a rig operated by Edward Franklin Mathers of Akron and was talkIng to the driver when a second tractor- trailer hit the rear of the Mathers rig.

Driver of the second tractor-trailer was Charles Wayne Culver, 33, of Charles City R. D. 1, Iowa. Culver was charged with aggravated assault and battery by motor vehicle and is being held in Westmoreland County Jail, Greensburg, pending $5.000 bond. Because of the trooper's death the charge will be changed to involuntary manslaughter, state police said. A native of Nanty Glo Gyurke was graduated from Black Lick Township High School. He became a state policeman in 1954 and was assigned first to Erie. For about the last three years, he served with the Turnpike Division at Somerset.

Trooper William Gyurke, a brother of the deceased, is now serving at the Uniontown state police barracks. Another brother, Michael Jr., was killed In France during World War II. Mrs. Michael Gyurke mother, of these children and four other sons and four daughters, resides at 1253 Second Street, Nanty Glo. Her husband, died July 25, 1956.

The wife of the late state policeman, Margaret Hruska Gyurke, resides at 617 Berkey Lane, Somerset. Also a Nanty Glo native, she is a nurse at Somerset Community Hospital. The couple was building a new home in Somerset. There are no children.

An accident on The Pennsylvania Turnpike New Stanton Interchange which resulted in the death of state trooper Stephen Gyurke, yesterday brought a 6 to 18 months suspended sentence for the driver involved. The victim, who lost both legs in the accident last August 21, is a brother of Trooper William P. Gyurke of the Uniontown barracks. Charles W. Culver, 34, of Bascobel, Wisconsin, formerly of Charles City, Iowa, entered a plea of no defense before Judge L. Alexander Sculco of Greensburg and was given the suspended sentence on an involuntary mansIaughter charge. Culver's truck left the turnpike about 10 miles east of the New Stanton Interchange and struck Trooper Gyurke, who was stationed with the Turnpike Detail at the Somerset barracks. Gyurke was standing on the berm talking to another truck driver he had stopped for an apparent traffic violation. Trooper Gyurke died in Mount Pleasant Hospital shortly after the accident.