Obituaries
Tracey Bennett
Tracey Lynn “Biggs” Bennett, 34, of Tunkhannock died after medical complications on July 10, 2014. She was born May 31, 1980 and was a graduate of the Tunkhannock Area School District. She is the daughter of David and Lori Bennett of Tunkhannock....
Claud Button
Claud M. Button, Sr., 48, of Falls went to be with the Lord on Friday July 4, 2014, at the Geisinger South Hospital Wilkes-Barre. He was born May 11, 1966 in Wilkes-Barre, and he was the son of the late Lois and Sidney Button. He was married to the f...
Stanley North

Veteran
Services for Stanley H. North will be held Friday July 18,2014 at 12 noon at St. Paul's Methodist Church, Syracuse, NY. Stanley H. North, 84, of Benton Twp. died Tuesday evening 6/17/2014 at his home. Born in Plattsburgh, NY. On March 7th, 1930; the ...
Nancy Hulslander
Nancy died during heart surgery in Kalispell, MT on December 12th, 2013 just two weeks prior to her 77th birthday on Christmas Day. She was the oldest of three children born to Dean and Marian Brooks of Springville, PA who predeceased her. Nancy was ...
Everett Smith
Everett D. Smith, 89, of Tunkhannock passed away at the St. Lukes Villa Wilkes-Barre on May 21, 2014. He was born in Tunkhannock on Apr. 17, 1925, the son of the late Orval and Catherine Kingston Smith. He was married to the former Rose Madden who pa...
Evelyn Kristunas
Evelyn M. Kristunas, 85, of Tunkhannock died Tuesday morning at the Golden Living Center, Tunkhannock. She was born in Tunkhannock on June 21, 1928, the daughter of the late Charles and Ethel Comstock White. She attended Tunkhannock High School. She ...
Marion Finch
Marion L. Finch, 80, of Mill City passed away at home on May 18th, 2014. She was the daughter of the late Russell and Hazel Howell Jacques. She is survived by her husband Clayton. They were married for 59 years. She is also survived by her three chil...
Dorothy Wolfe
Dorothy Wolfe, 83, of Factoryville died Friday evening at her home. Born January 18th 1931 in Jessup; the daughter of the late Stephen and Mary Kurtak-Marcinko. Dorothy is preceded in death by two husbands: Bernard Griffin Sr. died May 25th 1970 and ...
Joyce Hall
Joyce Ann Hall, 72, of Tunkhannock, died May 13 at the Golden Living Center. She was born July 22, 1941 in Nicholson, Pa. She was the daughter of the late Arnold A Sisco who did January 1, 1979 and the late Jerice T. Benjamin who died March 8, 2005. ...
William Whitford
William E. Whitford, 81, of Dalton died Friday evening at regional Hospital of Scranton. Born in Chinchilla on September 15th 1932; the son of the late William and Naomi Grace Tripp Whitford. A 1950 graduate of Waverly High School. He was owner opera...
Lillian Jackson
Lillian Jackson, 74, of Tunkhannock passed away May 4, 2014 at the Geisinger Medical Center, Danville after a long illness. She is preceded in death by her husband Harry who she was married to for 53 years. She was born in Dickson City on July 7, 193...
Dean Austin
Dean W. Austin Jr., 38, of Factoryville died Friday morning at Mid Valley Hospital. Born in Chicago, Illinois on April 27th, 1975; the son of Sharon Daugherty Bray and her husband Charles of Factoryville and Dean W. Austin Sr. of Columbus, OH. Dean g...
Stella Litwin
Stella Litwin 89 of Tunkhannock formerly of Auburn Twp., died Thursday morning at home. She was born in Olyphant, Nov. 7, 1924, daughter of the late Cornelius and Anastasia Jarovozoska Senkow. She was preceded in death by her husband of 49 years Anth...
Ruth Zier
Ruth Elizabeth Zier, 77, died peacefully at her sister’s home in Tunkhannock on April 6, 2014 with her family by her side. She was born Apr. 2, 1937 to Michael and Helen Gordon in Sterling, Michigan. Her father was from Austria and her mother from ...
Mary Yatsko
Mary J. Yatsko, 69, of Tunkhannock passed away peacefully at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, April 9th with her family at her bedside. She was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania on August 12, 1944, the daughter of the late M...
Frank Williams
Frank E. Williams, 91, of Lake Winola passed away at the Moses Taylor Hospital Friday evening. He was born Dec. 4, 1922 in Glenburn the son of the late Charles and Mildred Gardner Williams. Frank was a graduate of the Dalton High School. He was marri...
Edward Johnson
Edward Carl Johnson of Scranton died at Regional Hospital of Scranton on Wednesday 3/19/2014. He was born in Marquette, MI on January 8th 1941; the son of the late Edward and Grace Reau Johnson. 1959 graduate of Marquette High School, Navy Veteran, e...
Dorothy Brown
Dorothy A. Brown, 78, of Factoryville died Saturday morning at Geisinger C.M.C, Scranton. Born in Scranton on September 26th 1935; the daughter of the late Frank and Helen Fritch Venskytis. Her husband the late Ronald M. Brown died in 1994. She was a...
Alan Walker

Veteran
Alan K. Walker, Sr., 67, of Tunkhannock died Friday morning at his home. Born in Binghamton, NY on January 5th 1947, the son of Betty J. Walker and the late Herbert L. Walker of Lexington, KY. He graduated from Blue Ridge High School in 1964. He is a...
Alexander Jervis
Alexander Andrew Jervis passed from this life Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at the Geisinger Hospital Wyoming Valley. Alexander had a several year battle with congestive heart failure. He was born April 6th, 1939 the son of the late Andrew and Florence J...
Warren Seamans
Warren T. “Sam” Seamans , 91, of Factoryville, Benton Twp,. died at his home on Thursday morning. Born in Factoryville on March18th 1922; the son of the late Harry W. and Vera Taylor Seamans. His late wife the former Elizabeth “Betty” Jane Go...
Roger Ayers
Roger G. Ayers, 89, of Dalton passed away Saturday at Geisinger CMC. He was born in Newton on Oct. 25, 1924 the son of the late Elmer and Fay Avery Ayers. He married Mary Pasmeg Johns and they would have celebrated 47 years together this coming July....
Janet Barnes
Janet S. Barnes, 65, of Factoryville, died Sunday evening at her home. She was born in Scranton on March 13th, 1948 the daughter of the late Ralph and Jane Beardsley Burton. Her husband Joe of 26 years and daughter Michele Garey were her special frie...
Angelique Harding
Angelique P. Harding, 94 of Tunkhannock died Tuesday evening at Golden Living Center, Tunkhannock, after an illness. She was born on Russell Hill, daughter of the late Edward and Rachel Bush Prevost. She was preceded in death by her husband of 49 yea...
Gilbert Bishop

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Gilbert L. Bishop, 85, of Springville, died Tuesday morning at the Geisinger C.M.C in Scranton. Born in Rush Twp. on August 23, 1928; the son of the late James Lee and Ruth Kinney Bishop. His wife of 63 years is the former Alice J. Howell; they were ...