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Brandon M. Moon
Jun 1, 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 throughout his life. He love fishing, swimming and being in nature. He was...
Charles F. Kennedy
May 31, 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 primarily in Seattle schools, except for two years with his grandparents in Zillah during WWII, he graduated...
Wayne B. Dickinson
May 31, 2016
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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 a graduate of Tunkhannock High School class of 1966. During his senior year...
Jack A. Carey
May 29, 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 contracting business for 20 plus years. An avid outdoors man, he...
Stella R, Martin
May 27, 2016
Stella R. Martin, 85, of Mountainside, NJ passed away at the CareOne Nursing home on Friday May 27 th . 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. Stella was a Tunkhannock High School graduate and she...
John A. Allison Jr.
May 21, 2016
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. Before retiring he had worked as a contractor for Sun Building Systems, Taylor. ...
Joan Lyman
May 9, 2016
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 effort she deemed it time to move on to more gleaming environs where, no doubt, she...
John Hinkley
May 9, 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 the former Linda Remington. John was employed for...
Emilie B. Slocum (Lynch)
May 8, 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 died in an auto accident in 1976
Born in Cooperstown...
Anna Anita Dekonty (Alfiere)
Apr 15, 2016
Anna Anita Alfiere De Konty, 98, Simpson Meadows, Downingtown Pennsylvania, formerly of Falls-Lake Winola, Pennsylvania, passed away on Friday, April 15, 2016 at Simpson Meadows Methodist home. She was the wife of Michael Maxine De Konty of Falls, Pennsylvania, who passed away at the age of 100 years on December 31, 2009. They had celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary...
Jacqueline M. Strumski
Apr 14, 2016
Jacqueline M. Strumski, 79, of Tunkhannock passed away at the VNA Hospice, Scranton on Apr. 14, 2016. She was born in Vernon, Pa. on Jan. 30, 1937 and she was the daughter of the late Peter and Mary Forgash. Jacqueline was a 1955 graduate of the Tunkhannock High School and she worked as a seamstress making Jackets. Jacqueline was...
David J. Drake Sr.
Apr 12, 2016
David James Drake Sr., 85, of Dalton died Tuesday evening at Regional Hospital of Scranton. His wife, Rachael M. Thomas Drake, died May 7, 2005. Born in Dalton on Aug. 6, 1930, son of the late Sterle C. and Ruth Thompson Drake, David was a junk man who loved going to auctions, yard sales and working his booth at...
Janice K. Bullock (Bullock )
Apr 7, 2016
Janice K. Bullock RN BSN, 63, of Swoyersville died Thursday, April 7, 2016, at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. She was born in Meshoppen on August 5, 1952; the daughter of the late Percy E. and Catherine L. Harvey Bullock. She was a graduate of Tunkhannock High School, class of 1970, Nesbitt Nursing School class of 1974; In 1994 she received...
Irene R. Sweppenheiser (Janosky)
Apr 7, 2016
Irene R. Sweppenheiser, 93, formerly of Factoryville died on Thursday, April 07, 2016, at Golden Living Center, Tunkhannock. Born at Lake Manataka on September 14 th , 1922; the daughter of the late Sylvester and Matilda (Tillie) Rowlands Janosky. Her husband the late Elmer C. Sweppenheiser died Sept. 11, 2014.
She was a member of St. Paul’s...
Thomas L. Hill Sr.
Apr 2, 2016
Thomas Lewis Hill Sr., 90, died Saturday at Geisinger Mt. View Care Center, Scranton. Born in Scranton on October 5, 1925; the son of the late Chester and Ann Lewis Hill. His wife of 46 years the late Barbara Ann Hill died September 4, 1994. Tom graduated from Waverly High School and attended Keystone Jr. College and Lafayette College,...
Jeffrey A. Sechrist
Mar 18, 2016
Jeffrey A. Sechrist, 51, of Tunkhannock passed away on March 18, at the Allied Skilled Nursing, Scranton. Jeffrey was born in Willoughby Ohio on April 19, 1964, and he was the son of David Sechrist of Tunkhannock and the late Barbara Pribble Sechrist.
Jeffrey was a 1982 graduate of the Tunkhannock High School and he was a...
Anne K. Thomas
Mar 13, 2016
Ann K. Thomas of Factoryville, Pa and Holly Hill, FL died Sunday after a brief illness. Born in Scranton, Pa, she was the wife of Edmund Thomas who died in 1995. She was a graduate of St. Johns University and Kings County Hospital Medical Center in New York. She was an active member of the Daytona Beach Boat Club, the...
Giuseppe Joe Massari
Mar 12, 2016
Giuseppe “Joe” Massari, 83, of Tunkhannock, died Saturday morning at the Gold Living Center, Tunkhannock.
He was born Aug. 25, 1932 in Italy and he was the son of the late Antonio Massari. Giuseppe was a supervisor of the Endicott Johnson Shoe company. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, watching sports, and spending time with his family.
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Alfred Henry
Mar 6, 2016
Alfred “Al” Henry, 72 passed away at the VNA Hospice of Scranton, Pa. on March 6, 2016. He was born on May 9, 1943 in Taylor, Pa. and he was the son of the late William and Josephine Dziak Henry. He was preceded in death by a brother Gerald Henry and a niece Laura Puza.
Al was...
Frederick L. Hollister
Feb 25, 2016
Frederick L. Hollister, 92, of Dimock died on February 25, 2016 at his home. Born in silver Lake on October 20, 1923; the son of the late Herman and Josephine Pearson Hollister. Fred’s wife is the former Violia E. Wood. Fred served his country as an Army Veteran of W.W.II he was an auto mechanic or a truck driver...
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