Obituaries
Mcclellan F. Rosenkrans
Feb 6, 2008
2-06-2008 VET. PICTURE McClellan F. Rosenkrans, Lathrop Twp., Susquehanna County, PA died Wednesday morning in his home. His wife is the former Gladys Nystrand, the couple celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary last June. Born in Stillwater, NJ, son of the late Floyd J. And Laura Hill Rosenkrans, Prior to his retirement he was a self employed contractor and a resident...
Januarius G. Bryer
Feb 5, 2008
Januarius G. Bryer, Fleetville, died Tuesday evening at the Hospice Unit in Mercy Hospital. His wife is the former Joan Marie Russin, the couple celebrated their 54th wedding anniversary last September 12th. Born in Jessup, son of the late Matthew and Anna Wassel Bryer. He has been a resident of the Fleetville area for the past 48 years. Prior to...
June N. Wickizer
Feb 4, 2008
June N. Wickizer, 85, Falls Twp., died Monday morning at Allied Skilled Nursing facility. She was the widow of Edward J. Wickizer who died August 27, 2003. Born in Falls Twp., daughter of the late Donald and Mabel Sickler Dickinson. She was a member of the Schultzville United Methodist Church. Surviving are two daughters, Jill Moser, Dalton and Joy Ludwig,...
Margaret Stanik
Jan 30, 2008
Margaret L. Stanik, of Clarks Summit, died Wednesday morning at home. She was the widow of Michael Stanik, who died Sept. 11, 1977. Born Feb. 9, 1923, in Ransom, daughter of the late Paul and Mary Reshetar Tirpak, she resided in Clarks Summit and raised her children at the Country Club of Scranton, where her late husband was a greenskeeper...
Lillian A. Goschy
Jan 28, 2008
1-28-08 Lillian A. Goschy, Clarks Summit, died Monday night at the Hospice Unit of the Community Medical Center. She was the widow of Nicholas P. Goschy who died in January of 1981. Born in Philadelphia, daughter of the late Robert and Lillie Dumbelton Tilston. She moved to Clarks Summit in 1958. Surviving are two sons, Nicholas P., Knoxville, TN and...
Shirley J. Quick
Jan 28, 2008
Shirley J. Quick, of Clarks Summit, died Monday at Bay Medical Center, Panama City, Fla. Her husband is Jonas C. Quick. The couple was married 55 years in June. Born in Scranton, daughter of the late Charles and Rose Ekey Deming, she had been a resident of Glenburn Township since 1962. Before retiring, she was a cafeteria worker for the...
Theodore Joseph Jaditz
Jan 27, 2008
1-27-2008 PICTURE VET. Theodore Joseph Jaditz, a resident of Clarkrs Summit, 91, died Sunday at the Community Medical Center. He was born on St. Valentines Day, 1916, in Peacock Hill, Scranton, PA. He attended St. Peter and Paul School on Locust St. His family moved to Newton, PA in 1925. He worked on the family farm until he joined the...
Joseph D. Hassett
Jan 27, 2008
Joseph D. Hassett, formerly of Roslyn Heights, N.Y., died Saturday morning at home in Clarks Summit following an illness. His wife of 41 years is Irene D. Hassatt, Ph.D, the former Irene D. Popovich. Born in New York City, he was the son of the late Thomas and Mary Healy Hassett. In 1986, he retired as vice president of human...
Henry W. Smith
Jan 26, 2008
Henry W. Smith, Falls Township, died Saturday afternoon at the Abington Manor Nursing Home. His wife was the former Jane Davis, the couple was married in July in 1955. Born in Scranton, son of the late William and Clare Pleasure Smydkowski. He was a resident of Falls Twp. For the past 25 years. Prior to retirement he was Machinist in...
Loretta J. Forsythe
Jan 19, 2008
Loretta J. Forsythe, 80, formerly of Laural Lane Clarks Summit, died Saturday in Winterpark Florida. She was the widow of the late Bert Edwin Forsythe, who died in 2005. Born in Gary Indiana, she was the daughter of the late Leo and Joephine Mynatt. She attended the First Presbyterian church of Clarks Summit and was a member of her neighborhood...
William Roeland
Jan 18, 2008
William R. Roeland, 40, of Nicholson died friday at his home. Born in Wayne N.J. son of Edward Roeland, Albuquerque New Mexico, and the late Carol Roeland. He resided in Nicholson for the past 7 years and was employed by Rapid Pallet for the past 12 years . Also surviving is a son Steven; Gilbert Az., a daughter Alyssa; Gilbert...
Wendell P. Hall
Jan 13, 2008
Wendell P. Hall Wendell P. Hall, 60, of Clarks Summit, died Sunday night in Moses Taylor Hospital. His wife is the former Mai Thi Lien. Born in Scranton, son of Evelyn Hall, Glenburn Township, and the late Robert Hall, he was a 1965 graduate of Abington Heights High School. He was a six-year Navy veteran of the Vietnam era, receiving...
Connie Lacey
Jan 8, 2008
1-8-2008 PICTURE Connie Lacey, Clarks Summit died Tuesday afternoon at the Hospice Unit of the Mercy Hospital. She was the widow of Thomas James Lacey who died May 5, 1980. Born in Scranton, daughter of Betty Carr Kellam, Clarks Summit and the late David Kellam. Prior to retiring in 2000, she was employed by Abington Heights School District for over...
Blanche Giammo
Dec 28, 2007
Blanche J. Giammo, formerly of Clarks Summit died Friday afternoon at the Jewish Home in Scranton. She was the widow of Thomas Giammo who died in 2000. Born in Cleveland Ohio, daughter of the late Raymond and Ruth Seith Woodcock. She has been a resident of Clarks Summit since 1966. Prior to retirement she was a Pharmacy Technician for CVS...
Jim Standley
Dec 25, 2007
James L. (Jim) Standley, 55, Clarks Summit, died Tuesday, December 25, at Mercy Hospital. James was born in Kinsley, Kansas, to Ruth Standley and the late James L. Standley. He grew up in Hastings, Nebraska, graduating from Hastings College in 1974. In 1975 he married Judy Metcalf. In 1978 he joined the Met Life computer team in Wichita, Kansas as...
Bill Krikendall
Dec 22, 2007
William Donald "Bill" Kirkendall, of Glenburn Township, died Saturday morning at home. His wife is Bertha Elsie "Jake" Jacobs Wolfe Kirkendall. He was born June 16, 1916 in Scranton. Son of the late Ralph and Emma Jane Kirkendall. Before retiring, he was an engineer for Daystrom Industries, which is now Lockheed Martin, Archbald. He was an Army veteran of World...
Olive Mawson
Dec 21, 2007
Olive Corine Mawson, 89, of Scranton, died Thursday in the Gino Merli Veterans Center, Scranton. She was preceded in death by her husband of 46 years, Edward K. Mawson. Born in Factoryville, daughter of the late Ned and Ina Haight, Olive was valedictorian of her graduating class from Factoryville High School. During her adult years, she was an active member...
Francis Sherer
Dec 18, 2007
Francis "Frank" Garafola Sherer, of Clarks Summit, died Tuesday night in Moses Taylor Hospital. Born June 6, 1946, in Dunmore, he has been a resident of Clarks Summit since 1967, and was a bricklayer with union Local 5, Wilkes-Barre. He was a great builder who took pride in all of his work. An avid hunter and fisherman, he will be...
Dorothy Schultz
Dec 18, 2007
Dorothy F. Schultz, of Clarks Summit, died Tuesday morning at home. She was the widow of William Schultz, who died in 1981. Born in Maspeth, N.Y., daughter of the late August and Olga Lelke Schultz,? she had been a resident of the Clarks Summit area since 1969. Before her retirement, she worked in the catalog department for J.C. Penney. She...
David White
Dec 17, 2007
David E. White, 81, of Springville, died Monday at home. He was preceded in death by his wife, the late Idella Morgan White, in 2004. Born in Springville, son of the late Homer and Ruth Newton White, he was a lifelong resident of Springville, where he worked as a self-employed dairy farmer. David was an Army veteran, serving during the...


