Obituaries
Vivienne Shupp
Vivienne F. Shupp, 81, passed away Aug. 20, 2016 at the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. She was born on Sept. 9, 1934 and she was the daughter of the late Harry and Margorie Sick Fassett. She was married to Glenn “Ace” Shupp for the last 6 yea...
Josephine M. Ferrante
August 25, 2016
Josephine M. Ferrante, 97, of Hopewell, NJ, died at home on Aug. 18th. Preceded in death by her husband Rosario Ferrante, she is survived by: her son John (Deborah) Ferrante; her daughter Raffaela Nielsen; three sisters; six grandchildren; and a gr...
Lulu E. Kman (Spor)
September 10, 2016
Lulu Elizabeth Kman, age 95, of Nicholson, Pennsylvania passed
away Tuesday, August 16, 2016, at Martin Nursing and Restorative Care
Center in Stuart, FL.
Lulu was born December 1, 1920, in Scranton, PA, the daughter of
Joseph V. and Ethel M. Spo...
Rev. John Daniel Herron
September 25, 2016
Rev. John Daniel Herron
Rev. John Daniel Herron, 83, went to be with his Heavenly Father with his family by his side on Aug. 11, 2016.
Born in Duryea, PA; on Sept.24, 1932; the son of the late John and Bertha Herron.
He graduated from Duryea...
Martha L. Boice (Fassett)
July 29, 2016
Martha L. Boice, 70 of Sugar Run died Wednesday morning July 27, 2016 at Golden Living Center, Tunkhannock. She was born in Meshoppen on May 11, 1946, the daughter of the late William and Ella Farr Fassett. Her husband is Stephen F. Boice.
She i...
Rebekah S. Lee (DeCoe)
July 31, 2016
Rebekah DeCoe Lee, 64, of Springville, passed away on July 27, 2016
from injuries sustained in an auto accident. She is survived by her
loving husband of 45 years, Donald P. Lee; two sons, Nathan Lee
(Stephanie Lownes) and Justin Lee (Kimberly); s...
Dakota L. Watkins
July 26, 2016
Dakota Lee Watkins, 24 of Tunkhannock died in a work place accident at Harvey’s Lake on Thursday. Born in Scranton on Sept. 28, 1991; the son of Jacki St.Clair Kobbe and her husband Judd of Tunkhannock and Jeramy Watkins and his wife Becky of Tun...
George H. Wesley III
July 22, 2016
George Henry Wesley III, 62 of Wilkes Barre PA, passed away on Tuesday, July 19th, in the presence of his fiancée, Diana Carpenter.
George was born June 21, 1954 in Clarks Summit, PA to George H. Wesley Jr and Merle Bullock We...
Richard Darling
July 16, 2016
Richard E. Darling, 90, of Nicholson, passed away at the Golden Living Center Scranton on July 9, 2016.
Richard was born Nov. 10, 1925, in Mansfield, Pa. the son of the late Floyd and Lydia Stevens Darling. He was married to the late former Bern...
Arnold N. Maconeghy
July 8, 2016
Arnold N. Maconeghy, 52, of Factoryville died July 5, 2016 at Hospice of the Sacred Heart, Dunmore. He was born on Oct. 11 1963 the son of the late Theodore and Eva Mae Rought Maconeghy.
Arnold worked at Proctor and Gamble for 15 years. He enj...
Frank Eddy Cook
July 7, 2016
Frank Eddy Cook, 42, of Nicholson passed away at his home on July 1st. He was born in Syracuse, NY, on Oct. 24, 1973 and he was the son of the late Earl, Sr. and Katherinea Dyer Cook. Frank worked for almost 20 years at Nivert Steel in Dunmor...
Beverly A. Seamans (Gesek)
Beverly A. Seamans, 77, of Factoryville died June 30, 2016 at Abington Manor, Clarks Summit. Born in Clarks Summit on Sept. 4, 1938; the daughter of the Late Edward A. and Mary Parkton Gesek. She married her husband of 58 years Roger D. Seamans S...
Mary A. Keller (Yarasavage)
June 18, 2016
Mary Ann Yarasavage Keller of Tunkhannock died on Sunday June 12. The world is a little less bright tonight.
Born to Adam and Ann Vaskas Yarasavage on June 30, 1949 in Meshoppen, she graduated from Tunkhannock High School, class of 1967, and Leba...
Robert Enwright
Veteran
June 13, 2016
Robert Enwright, 87, of Tunkhannock died at his home on June 8, 2016. He was born in Fitchburg, Mass on March 23, 1929. He was the son of the late John F. and Irene Poisson Enwright. He was married on Nov. 20, 1954 to the love of his life, the ...
Roger Benson
June 10, 2016
Roger Alan Benson, 78, of Tunkhannock, died Monday at Hospice of the Sacred Heart, Dunmore. He and the former Barbara Lazarus were married for 50 years on May 28.
Born in Tunkhannock on May 12, 1938, son of the late Percy D. and Ada Lewis Benson, ...
Lossie Mackey (Coolbaugh)
Lossie Mackey, 68, of Falls died June 2, 2016 at Celtic Hospice, Wilkes-Barre. Born in Falls on Feb. 23, 1948 the daughter of the late Loren and Evelyn Staff Coolbaugh.
Preceded in death by her husband Robert Mackey; two brothers Phillip Coolb...
Brandon M. Moon
June 6, 2016
Brandon Matthew Dean Moon, 19, of Tunkhannock, died June 1st, 2016. He was born December 9th, 1996. He is the son of Michael and Angela Marie Moon Moyer. Brandon went to Tunkhannock and was part of the class of 2015.
Brandon had many hobbies throu...
Charles F. Kennedy
June 4, 2016
Charles F. Kennedy, 81, died peacefully Tuesday at Allied Skilled Nursing. His wife of 58 years is Sally Sanborn Kennedy. Born in Pendleton, Oregon, on March 19, 1935 he was the son of the late Charles M. and Dorothy Hammond Kennedy. Raised ...
Wayne B. Dickinson
Veteran
June 5, 2016
TUNKHANNOCK
Wayne B. Dickinson, 67, of Lemon died on Tuesday May 31. Born on Dec. 9, 1948 in Tunkhannock he was the youngest of five children born to the late Herbert and Leathea (Bennett) Dickinson. Raised in Lemon on the family farm, he was ...
Jack A. Carey
June 2, 2016
Jack A. Carey, 55, of Benton Twp. Died unexpectedly May 29, 2016 at his
home. He is survived by his wife of 20 years, Gretchen A Jack. And is the
son of the late Jack and Elizabeth Wood Carey.
He was sole proprietor of Northern Exteriors co...
Stella R, Martin
June 4, 2016
Stella R. Martin, 85, of Mountainside, NJ passed away at the CareOne Nursing home on Friday May 27th. She was born in Tunkhannock, PA on May 8, 1931 and she was the daughter of the late Anna Pascoe. She was married to Joseph Martin for 20 years....
John A. Allison Jr.
Veteran
John Andrew Allison Jr., 70 of Factoryville died on Saturday May 21, 2016 at Allied Skilled Nursing, Scranton. Born in Montgomery, MD on May 13, 1946 the son of the late John Andrew and Virginia Maude Burdette Allison Sr.
He was a Navy Veteran. Be...
Joan Lyman
Joan Elisabeth Hoffman Lyman, born March 6th 1928, passed away on May 9th 2016, due to complications resulting from living in a world with not quite enough bling. She did what she could to eradicate this problem, but after 88 years of valiant effor...
John Hinkley
May 11, 2016
John A. Hinkley, 71, of Springville, died at his home May 9, 2016. He was born in Montrose on Nov. 12, 1944 and he was the son of the late Robert and Louise Roberts Hinkley.
John was a 1962 graduate of the Elk Lake High School and he was married to ...
Emilie B. Slocum (Lynch)
May 11, 2016
Emilie B. Slocum, 78, of West Abington Twp. Went to be with her Savior on May 8, 2016. Her husband is George Slocum. They had been married for 34 years. Emilie moved to the Dalton area in 1964 with her first husband Kenneth LeClair, Ken was killed di...