Current Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Wilkes-Barre, PA, Luzerne County, & Surrounding Areas
Eileen Cosgrove Templeton
Mar 11, 2013
Eileen Cosgrove Templeton, 46, of Trucksville died Monday in the care of Hospice of the Sacred Heart at the end of a valiant twenty-year fight with cancer. Born January 26, 1967 in Wilkes-Barre she was a daughter of Mary Curtin Cosgrove of Mountain Top and the late Patrick E. Cosgrove. A 1985 graduate of Bishop Hoban High School, Eileen earned...
Peggy Keck
Mar 4, 2013
Peggy C. Keck of Wilkes-Barre died Monday, March 4, 2013, two days before her 90th birthday. Born Margaret Mary Keck in Hazleton she was a daughter of the late Frederick and Mary Murrin Keck. Peggy was a 1940 graduate of E.L. Meyers High School in Wilkes-Barre. Before retiring in 1985, Peggy was a Vice President of Franklin First Federal Savings...
Lisa Hinz
Mar 1, 2013
Lisa Hinz, 50, of Wilkes-Barre died Friday at Hospice Community Care. Born March 18, 1962 in Kingston she was a daughter of the late Judith Glaush Wolfe and Willard Hinz. Lisa was a 1980 graduate of Wyoming Valley West High School. Lisa was a nursing aide at the Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center and Summit Nursing Home for many...
Roland Parham
Feb 25, 2013
Roland S. Parham, 69, of Wilkes-Barre died Monday at Commonwealth Hospice. Born April 21, 1943 in Emporia, Virginia, Roland relocated to Wilkes-Barre in his youth. He was a graduate of G.A.R. Memorial High School. Roland was an operating engineer for UGI Corporation for thirty years before retiring. He was a devoted Eagles football fan and formerly served as president of...
Thomas M. Lawall
Feb 25, 2013
Thomas M. Lawall, 70, of Wilkes-Barre died Monday at Hospice Community Care. Born December 20, 1942 in Wilkes-Barre he was a son of the late Martin and Catherine Scanlon Lawall. Tom was a graduate of Saint Mary's High School. Before retiring Tom was employed by PennDOT for twenty-six years. He was a great fan of Phillies baseball and Notre Dame...
Alex Dobrosky
Feb 24, 2013
Alex John Dobrosky, 95, of Wilkes-Barre died Sunday at Manor Care Health Services. Born August 16, 1917 in Portland, Maine he was a son of the late Victor and Stella Dobrolski. Alex was a graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He was a Merchant Marine veteran of World War II having served his country honorably from 1943 to 1945....
Evelyn Bevan Munch
Feb 22, 2013
Evelyn Bevan Munch, 92, of Wilkes-Barre died Friday at Riverstreet Manor. Born June 8, 1920 in Dunn, North Carolina she was a daughter of the late Edmond and Girtha Bass Baggett. A 1960 graduate of the Wilkes-Barre City Schools Practical Nursing Program, Evelyn completed her training and certification as a Licensed Practical Nurse. Evelyn practiced at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital and...
Bonnie Green
Feb 20, 2013
Bonnie L. Green, 66, of Fairfield died Wednesday following an illness. Born January 26, 1947 in Wilkes-Barre she was a daughter of the late John L. and Joan McGroarty Green. Bonnie was a longtime resident of Forty Fort and also lived in Swoyersville and Kingston before moving to Fairfield. She will be greatly missed by her brother, John L. and...
Bonnie Carlo
Feb 19, 2013
Bonnie Carlo, 56, of Wilkes-Barre passed away peacefully on Tuesday at Hospice Community Care after a courageous battle with a rare leukemia. Born July 9, 1956 in Wilkes-Barre she was a daughter of the late Phyllis Habel Mushalla and John Klinetob. A 1974 graduate of Hanover Area Vocational School of Practical Nursing, Bonnie earned her LPN certification enabling her to...
Donald Neals
Feb 18, 2013
Donald Fox Neals, 73, of Nanticoke died peacefully following an illness on Monday at The Laurels in Kingston. Born April 22, 1939 in Wilkes-Barre he was a son of the late John and Mildred Fox Neals. Don was a graduate of Saint Mary's High School. An Army veteran of the Vietnam Era, he was honorably discharged after serving from 1962...
Juana Navarro
Feb 10, 2013
Juana Navarro, 99, de Wilkes-Barre murió en presencia de su amorosa familia en su residencia el domingo. Nacido 24 de junio 1913 en la República Dominicana era una hija del fallecido Marcelo de León y María Alcántara de León. Juano cultivaban sus tierras de la familia en su isla del Caribe durante muchos años, cada vez más granos de café,...
John Davison
Feb 9, 2013
John L. Davison, 54, of Wilkes-Barre suddenly passed away on February 9, 2013 at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Born April 10, 1958 in Harrisburg he was a son of Irene Savage Davison of Wilkes-Barre and the late William A. Davison. A member of the Class of 1976, he was an academic and athletic standout on the Meyers High School football and...
Catherine 'Kay' Strobel
Feb 7, 2013
Catherine ‘Kay’ ‘Grammy Cupcakes’ Strobel, 91, a longtime resident of the Georgetown section of Wilkes-Barre Township, died Thursday at Timber Ridge Health Care Center. Born September 10, 1921 in Chicago, she was a daughter of the late Santo and Giuseppina Scavuzzo Dongarra. Kay was raised in the Bronx, New York where she graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School. She had...
Rita Druby
Feb 7, 2013
Rita Doran Druby, 80, a former resident of Washington Square Apartments in Wilkes-Barre died Thursday at Manor Care in Elizabethtown. Born June 9, 1932 in Larksville she was a daughter of the late James and Josephine Doran. Rita was a graduate of Saint Vincent's High School in Plymouth. Before retiring she had worked at the family restaurant, Abe's on South...
Ann Marie Watchulonis
Feb 6, 2013
Ann Marie Bilbow Watchulonis, 75, a longtime resident of Shavertown died Wednesday at Laurelwood Care Center in Maryland. It would have been the 53rd anniversary of her marriage to William J. Watchulonis, Jr. Born January 30, 1938 in Kingston, she was a daughter of the late Patrick J. and Catherine Hardiman Bilbow. Her husband, William J. Watchulonis, Jr. died September...
Esther Petrello
Jan 29, 2013
Esther J. Petrello of Gateway Apartments in Edwardsville entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, January 29, 2013. Born in the Browntown section of Pittston Township she was a daughter of the late Ralph and Mamie Shard Petrello. Esther was employed by A.E. Morris Jewelers in both Pittston and Wilkes-Barre for many years before retiring. Ten sisters and brothers preceded her...
Ida Maria Cirillo
Jan 18, 2013
At the request of the family of Ida Maria Cirillo no obituary will be published at this time...
Walter 'Doc' Murphy
Jan 17, 2013
Walter Francis ‘Doc’ Murphy of Harvey’s Lake passed away on January 17, 2013 at the age of ninety-two. Born August 24, 1920, in the East End section of Wilkes-Barre he was a son of the late Frank and Mabel Jones Murphy, and was raised by his aunt, Jenney Murphy. Walter was a 1940 graduate of Coughlin High School. He enlisted...
Carol Kocik Cunningham
Jan 13, 2013
Carol Kocik Cunningham, 60, of Wilkes-Barre died Sunday at Commonwealth Hospice. Born November 9, 1952 in Swoyersville she was a daughter of the late John J. and Julia Banyar Kocik. Carol attended Holy Trinity School and graduated from Central Catholic High School in Kingston. Before retiring she was a member services representative for Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania for forty...
Alice Hoban Rinehimer
Jan 12, 2013
Alice Hoban Rinehimer, 91, of Wilkes-Barre passed away peacefully in the presence of her children on January 12, 2013. Born on February 7, 1921 in Wilkes-Barre she was a daughter of the late Joseph W. and Genevieve Carpenter Hoban. Alice graduated from Saint Ann’s Academy in 1939. That same year she won a Scarlett O’Hara Look-a-like Contest sponsored by The...
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