Current Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Wilkes-Barre, PA, Luzerne County, & Surrounding Areas
Florence Jumper
Dec 1, 2013
Florence Jumper, 100, of Wyoming died Sunday at Hospice Community Care. Born May 30, 1913 in Wyoming she was a daughter of the late Cornelius and Catherine Brennan Ward. Florence was a graduate of Saint Cecelia's High School. Prior to her marriage to George Jumper in 1959 Florence worked for EmKay Manufacturing in West Wyoming for more than twenty years....
Judy Mullen
Nov 30, 2013
Judy Mullen, 69, a resident of Forty Fort died Saturday. Born January 27, 1944 in Wilkes-Barre she was a daughter of Irene Norton Mullen of Wilkes-Barre and the late Dennis A. Mullen. Judy was a graduate of Coughlin High School and continued her education in nursing at Luzerne County Community College. Judy was a Registered Nurse working in the operating...
Albert Kishel
Nov 24, 2013
Albert Kishel, 73, died peacefully in the presence of his loving family at his home in Bear Creek on Sunday. Born July 30, 1940 in Taylor and raised in Dupont he was a son of Betty VanLuvender Kishel and the late Albert Kishel. A graduate of West Pittston High School he earned his baccalaureate degree at Wilkes University. Al had...
Raymond Jones
Nov 24, 2013
Raymond K. Jones, 82, of Wilkes-Barre died Sunday at Hospice Community Care. Born January 3, 1931 in Wilkes-Barre he was a son of the late Raymond K. and Isabelle Adams Jones. Ray attended Meyers High School. An Air Force veteran of the Korean Conflict he proudly served our country from 1952 to 1956. Ray was employed by Frank Martz Coach...
Edward Dopko
Nov 20, 2013
Edward J. Dopko, 73, of Wilkes-Barre died unexpectedly Wednesday at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Born January 27, 1940 in Wilkes-Barre he was a son of the late Edward and Adele Styklunas Dopko. Ed's family relocated to Philadelphia where he graduated from Overbrook High School. An Army veteran he proudly served our country for six years with more than two years of...
Ronald Maholic
Nov 16, 2013
Ronald J. Maholic, Sr., 61, of Drums and formerly of West Deer and Rural Ridge, entered into eternal peace November 16, 2013 in Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Ron was born July 2, 1952 in Harrison Township to the late Anthony and Mary (Cagna) Maholic. He was a Certified Orthotist/Prosthetist (CPO) with the American Orthotic/Prosthetic Academy working in the field for over...
Ruth Clemons
Nov 16, 2013
Ruth Hayward Clemons, 82, of ManorCare in Kingston and former longtime resident of South Welles Street in Wilkes-Barre entered into eternal rest on Saturday evening at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Born April 4, 1931 in Kingston she was a daughter of the late Walter and Bertha Sprow Hayward. Ruth was a member of the Parish of Our Lady of Fatima and...
Elizabeth Mary Kearney
Nov 15, 2013
Elizabeth Mary Kearney, 77, of Kingston entered eternal rest on Friday. Born September 22, 1936 in Kingston she was a daughter of the late Joseph A. and Kathleen O'Malley Smith. Elizabeth earned her baccalaureate degree from Misericordia University. Before retiring Elizabeth taught in the elementary schools in South Plainfield, New Jersey for thirty-five years. She spent several years in South...
William View
Nov 12, 2013
William C. View, 74, of Wright Avenue in Kingston entered into eternal rest on Tuesday. Born April 4, 1939, a son of the late Charles M. and Marie Parry View, he lived most of his life in Wilkes-Barre. An Army veteran of the Vietnam Era, he proudly served our country for two years. Before retiring Bill was a baker at...
Jack Gibbons
Nov 9, 2013
John P. ‘Jack’ Gibbons, 74, of Exeter died at his home on Saturday, November 9th following metastatic melanoma. Jack was born in Scranton, the son of the late Anne Powell and Eugene Gibbons. He was a 1957 graduate of Scranton Central High School, where he was an All-Scholastic student and basketball player; and the University of Scranton with a degree...
Louis Kwarcinski
Nov 9, 2013
Louis P. Kwarcinski, 66, of Farmhouse Road in Mountain Top died Saturday at his home. Born July 23, 1947 in Wilkes-Barre he was the son of the late Louis J. and Catherine Kratz Kwarcinski. Lou was a 1965 graduate of Saint Nicholas High School. An Air Force veteran he served for four years during the Vietnam Era. After completion of...
Kathryn McCafferty Dorrance
Oct 31, 2013
Kathryn Dorrance, 98, of Wilkes-Barre passed away peacefully on October 31 at Little Flower Manor. Born in Swoyersville she lived most of her life in the Wilkes-Barre area and in Piscataway, New Jersey. Her first husband, Sylvester McCafferty, second husband, Stanley Dorrance and an infant son, Robert McCafferty preceded her in death. She will be greatly missed by her daughter,...
Elizabeth Callahan
Oct 25, 2013
Remembering Betty... On Friday morning, October 25, Elizabeth Callahan peacefully died after a more than two decade battle with Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia. Known to most people as "Betty" she was 87 years old at the time of her passing. She was born at home on Schoolhouse Lane in the East End section of Wilkes-Barre, PA on April 1, 1926...
Patrick J. Whalen
Oct 19, 2013
Patrick J. Whalen of Kingston passed away Saturday, October 19, 2013 in the Trauma Unit of Geisinger Medical Center in Danville. Born June 13, 1952 in Wilkes-Barre he was the youngest child of the Dr. and Mrs. Edward M. Whalen, Sr. Pat attended Meyers High School in Wilkes-Barre and graduated from Malvern Prep in 1971. For the better part of...
Helene Conover
Oct 18, 2013
Helene Guhanick Conover of Bear Creek Township died Friday at her home. Born in Wilkes-Barre she was a daughter of the late Daniel and Rose Guhanick. A graduate of James M. Coughlin High School, Helene continued her education at Luzerne County Community College and King's College. Helene retired from Harris Semiconductor in Mountain Top after working for RCA for many...
Ann Zwiebel
Oct 11, 2013
Ann Zwiebel, 77, of Hanover Township died Friday at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Born December 31, 1935 in Wilkes-Barre she was a daughter of the late Leroy and Josephine Reilly Smith. Ann was a 1954 graduate of G.A.R. Memorial High School. Mrs. Zwiebel dedicated most of her life to caring for her husband and five children, and was a senior aide...
Mildred Nell McLain
Oct 11, 2013
Mildred Nell McLain (nee Adams) died on Oct 11, 2013 at the age of 97. Mildred was born on New Year’s Eve to Frank Adamaitis and Nell Adamick (nee Russen) in Sugar Notch, PA. Mildred lost her mother when she was two years old, and was raised by her Lithuanian-speaking grandmother Anelka Russena, whom Millie loved dearly. Forced out of...
Ann Marie Wallace
Sep 22, 2013
Ann Marie Wallace, 73, of Washington Street in West Pittston died Sunday at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Born October 7, 1939 in West Pittston she was a daughter of the late John and Genevieve Manganello Barnhart. Ann Marie was a graduate of the West Pittston High School. Her calling in life was to meet the many needs of her family by...
Barbara Tayoun
Sep 22, 2013
Barbara L. Tayoun, 69, of Laflin died Sunday at Hospice Community Care. Born March 31, 1944 in Wilkes-Barre and raised in Kingston she was a daughter of the late Barber J. and Margaret Rose Thomas Tayoun. An honors graduate of West Side Central Catholic High School, Barbara earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Wilkes University and Master of Science...
Donna Cook
Sep 21, 2013
Donna M. Cook, 74, of Parrish Street in Wilkes-Barre died Saturday at River Run Nursing Center in Kingston. Born August 12, 1939 in Wilkes-Barre she was a daughter of the late James and Mary Girvan Drey. Donna was a 1957 graduate of E.L. Meyer High School. Before retiring Donna worked for Kmart in Wilkes-Barre Township for more than fifteen years....
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