LOEFFLER WILLIAM Age 89,passed away quietly at his O'Hara Township home May 8, 2015. Mr. Loeffler was a father, husband, composer, business executive and servant of God. A self-taught musician, Mr. Loeffler was a born performer who never met a piano he didn't like. He was also an accomplished yachtsman who sailed the Lake Erie Islands in the Galvanizer, his 26-foot sailboat. He sailed as far as Canada and up the St. Lawrence Seaway. As president of Hanlon-Gregory Industries, a hot-dip galvanizing company in Lawrenceville, he successfully steered it though the collapse of the steel industry in Western Pennsylvania. William Loeffler was born Aug. 4, 1925, the eighth of nine children of Josephine Heyl Loeffler and Albert Loeffler. Mr. Loeffler was the last surviving child. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, he enlisted in he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and earned his wings as a bombardier. In tribute to his service, his grandson, Air Force Cadet Walker Heyl Loeffler, wears a gold prop and wings on his flight cap instead of silver. Mr. Loeffler also was a member of the Pittsburgh Field Club and the president of C-AD Industries, a sign company. He loved classical music and opera and enjoyed golf, tennis and bowling. He is survived by his wife, Audrey (Foizey) Loeffler; his five children, William Loeffler III (Michelle) of St. Paul, Minn., Thomas Loeffler (Betsy) of Boston, Mass., Richard Loeffler (Laura), of Fox Chapel Julie Andrews (Christopher) of Hampton and James Albert Loeffler (Mimi) of Fox Chapel; and nine grandchildren. Friends received Monday, May 11, 2015, from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the WEDDELL - AJAK FUNERAL HOME, 100 Center Ave., Aspinwall, where a parting prayer will be held on Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. followed by a Christian Funeral Mass at 12 noon at St. Scholastica Church, Aspinwall. Send condolences post-gazette.com/gb