Obituaries
Jean L. Savitts
Oct 28, 2016
Jean L. Savitts, 89, Hazelton, died Friday afternoon at Allied Skilled Nursing Center in Scranton. She was the wife of the late Benjamin Savitts who died in 1964. Born in Dickson City, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Elizabeth Schuster Carey. She was a graduate of St. Patrick High School. She was employed at Mercy Hospital for...
Jane Whittaker Oconnor
Oct 27, 2016
Jane J. Whittaker OConnor, Waverly, died Thursday evening in her home surrounded by family. Born in Mahanoy City, she was the daughter of the late Albert and Frances Holzenthaler Whittaker. She was a woman of Catholic faith who attended both St. Gregory's Parish and Our Lady of the Snows Church. Prior to her retirement at the age of 83, she...
Arthur A. Johnson
Oct 24, 2016
Arthur Andrew Johnson Sr., 68, of Tunkhannock, passed away peacefully on Monday, October 24th. He was born on November 29, 1947 in Scranton, son of Rosella Yurksza Johnson and the late Arthur E. Johnson. Arthur grew up in Tunkhannock and graduated from Tunkhannock Area High School in 1966. Art worked at the Endicott Johnson Shoe factory in Tunkhannock for 23...
Elsie F Sherburne
Oct 23, 2016
Elsie Florence Sherburne, 92, of Tunkhannock was called home on Sunday October 23rd at Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre. Born January 30, 1924 in Rose Valley, PA, she was the daughter of the late Earl Lee and Ruth Rosalie Given Sefton and later the step-daughter of James Earl Smith. Elsie graduated high school as a co-valedictorian in Rural Valley, PA. She worked...
Carol L. West
Oct 22, 2016
Carol L. West R.N., 75, of Scott Twp. Pa., went to be with her lord and savior on October 22 in Hospice of the Sacred Heart, Dunmore, after a courageous 8 year battle with cancer. She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Roger A. West. Born in Philadelphia on December 5 1940, she was the daughter of the...
Steven D. Erickson
Oct 21, 2016
Steven D. Erickson, 60, of Lake Winola, died unexpectedly Friday. He was the husband of Theresa (Teri) Ward Erickson. The couple celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary this past July. Born in Mankato, MN, he was the son of Duane Erickson of Mankato, MN and the late Lorraine Spotts Erickson. He was a graduate of Mankato East High School and went...
Margaret J. Leavesley
Oct 21, 2016
Margaret J. Leavesley, 98, of Clarks Summit, died Friday evening at Hospice of the Sacred Heart in Dunmore. She was the wife of the late Charles D. Leavesley Sr. who died in 2000. Born in Philadelphia, she was the daughter of the late Walter and Emma Kuintzle Hoffman. She was a graduate of Olney High School in Philadelphia and was...
Susan Maher
Oct 21, 2016
Susan M. Maher, 67, of Clarks Summit, died Friday morning at her home due to complications of pancreatic cancer. She was the wife of David M. Maher. The couple has been married for 47 years. Born in Scranton, she was the daughter of the late Thomas J. and Lillian Collins Davis. She was a graduate of Abington Heights High School...
Frederick Burton Wademan
Oct 19, 2016
Frederick B. Wademan died October 19th, 2016 at Celtic Hospice of Wilkes-Barre. Fred was the son of the late Willard and Bernice Wademan. He spent countless hours watching Penn State football games and Nascar. Fred enjoyed spending time with his family, especially his new granddaughter Sadie, in his free time he would love to sit on the porch and enjoy...
Mason Saxon Wilson
Oct 16, 2016
Mason Saxon Wilson of Tunkhannock passed away October 16, 2016 at his home. He was the son of the late Robert and Mary Fisher Wilson. Husband of 21 years to Thelma Shook Born on May 6, 1921, he was a dairy farmer, a member of the Eastern Milk Producers, and Adolivn Dairy. He was also a member of the Tunkhannock...
Fred K. Howells
Oct 14, 2016
Fred K. Howells of Tunkhannock, died on Friday October 14th, 2016 in Tunkhannock. He was Born in Scranton on April 28, 1941 son of the late Fred and Marion Howey Howells. Fred was a 1959 graduate of Scranton Technical High School where he lettered in Football and Baseball and was an Army Veteran. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and riding his...
Kenneth L. Walter, Sr.
Oct 14, 2016
Kenneth L. Walter, Sr., 74, of Nicholson, died Friday morning at home. His wife is the former Evelyn Hopkins, the couple had been married for 57 years. Born in Taylor, he was the son of the late Leroy Glen and Ruth Etta Dennis Walter. He was a graduate of Blakely High School. Prior to retirement he worked for Mayflower Mfg....
William Milton Stang
Oct 14, 2016
William Milton Stang Jr., of Meshoppen, died Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, in the Tunkhannock United Methodist Home. He was born in Newark, N.J., on July 27, 1929, son of the late William M. Selma Ganserit Stang. Milton was a 1945 graduate of Tunkhannock High School, and attended Temple University. He was employed by various area construction companies, retiring from the...
Ann Barbara Balko
Oct 13, 2016
Ann Balko, 87, of Dalton, died peacefully surrounded by her family, Thursday morning at Allied Skilled Nursing Center in Scranton. She was the wife of the Late Charles Balko who died in 1966. Born in Scranton, she was the daughter of the late Adam and Vincenta Mary Obiedzinski Kucz. She was a graduate of West Scranton High School and was...
Larry N. Failing
Oct 13, 2016
Larry Nelson Failing, 42, was called home on October 12, 2016. He was born on February 12, 1974. He was taken unexpectedly at his residence in Key West Florida, where he had lived for the past eight years. He was a 1992 graduate of Tunkhannock Area High School, where he learned his love of photography and developing his own films....
Frank Duncan Tomlinson
Oct 12, 2016
Frank D. Tomlinson of Dallas, PA passed away October 12, 2016 peacefully, surrounded by his family. He celebrated his 99th birthday in September. Frank was married to the late Dorothea White Tomlinson. Before moving to the mountains, Frank and Dorothea raised their family in Levittown, PA, where he built his house on the hill of Levittown Parkway. Frank was born...
Rose M. Cumens
Oct 10, 2016
Rose M. Cumens, 83 of Tunkhannock, passed away on Monday, October 10th at the Golden Living Center in Tunkhannock. She was the widow of Robert E. Cumens, who preceded her in death in 2012. Born June 25, 1933 in Vassar, Mich., she is the daughter of the late Louis and Anna Vargo Molnar. Rose was a graduate of Scotts High...
Geneva B. Jones
Oct 10, 2016
Geneva B. Jones, 92, of Clarks Summit, died Monday afternoon at the Geisinger Mountain View Care Center in Scranton. She was the wife of the late Frank W. Jones Jr. who died in 1979. Born in Booneville Kentucky, she was the daughter of the late Jess and Hazel Woodard Bowman. She was a graduate of Lincoln County High School and...
Priscilla Carey
Oct 9, 2016
Priscilla Carey of Springville died on Sunday, October 9, 2016 at the Hospice of the Sacred Heart, Dunmore. She was born August 3, 1949 in Montrose, PA daughter of Irene Wademan Carey of Springville and the late Ray Carey. After graduating from Elk Lake High School, class of 1967, Priscilla began a long and far-reaching career in education where she...
Lois J. Jones
Oct 7, 2016
Lois J. Jones, 89, of Clarks Summit, died Friday morning at Green Ridge Health Care Center in Scranton. She was the wife of the late Dr. John P. Jones DDS, who died in 1984. Born in Scranton on June 5th 1927 she was the daughter of the late Theodore R. and Jesse Clark Jones. She was a 1944 graduate of...
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