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WILKES-BARRE RECORD ALMANAC
DEATHS IN LUZERNE COUNTY
1937
Some of the prominent women and men claimed by death in the period from December 1, 1936, to December 10, 1937, were:

December, 1936-
1, Mrs. George J. Stegmaier, 67, Wilkes-Barre, philanthropist; 
17, Dr. E. L. Meyers, physician, surgeon and Wilkes-Barre school director; 
26, A. L. Pierson, 80, Wilkes-Barre real estate man, in St. Petersburg, Fla.

January, 1937-
1, Jerome Meyer, Wilkes-Barre jeweler; 
3, Dr. Virgil A. Hook, Wilkes-Barre osteopath; 
4, John T. Williams, Kingston accountant; 
5, M. J. Brennan, Pittston merchant, soldier and ex-school director; 
10, Mayor R. Alvan Beisel of Hazleton; 
17, Robert Van Arsdale Norris, former city mine engineer, in New York City; 
21, Mayor Evan J. Williams of Nanticoke.

February, 1937-
1, Dr. Abe N. Mittleman, Wilkes-Barre; 
4, Frank W. Wheaton, Wilkes-Barre, former judge; 
9, Walter Piszczek, Plymouth, Polish Alliance head;
11, Daniel E. Newell, Kingston banker;
18, Michael Bosak, Scranton banker; 
28, Joshua Welter, DeMunds, educator.

March, 1937-
4, Rev. William V. Gislon, Pittston priest; 
4, Andrew J. Feeley, Hazleton theatre owner; 
9, Joseph H. Schwartz, Plymouth banker; 
14, Louis Zorzi, 75, Wilkes-Barre merchant; 
28, Charles F. Pokorny, Wilkes-Barre, musician and leader of Alexander Band;
30, Benjamin F. Williams, 65, Wilkes-Barre banker and former city councilman.

April, 1937-
4, Dr. Lewis Edwards, 68, Kingston, Luzerne County Commissioner; 
5, Millard F. Long, 70, Wilkes-Barre, former merchant; 
7, Dr. Charles Long, 75, Wilkes-Barre physician; 
7, George S. Bray, 62, pioneer Kingston automobile dealer; 
17, Michael E. Golden, former mayor of Pittston; 
20, Andrew M. Fine, 61, of Scranton, Hudson Coal Company general manager; 
22, Minot E. Gray, 58, Kingston, druggist; 
23, Rev. Dr. F. L. Flinchbaugh, 63, former Wilkes-Barre minister, at Ardmore; 
23, E. M. Ellsworth, 73, veteran real estate agent, Kingston; 
24, Dr. Daniel F. Daley, 49, Kingston physician.
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May, 1937-
4, Col. William L. Raeder of Scranton, former Wilkes-Barre engineer, lawyer and newspaperman; 
4, Rev. Thomas J. Burke, 48, of Wilkes-Barre, at Athens, Pa.; 
9, August H. Borr, West Pittston druggist; 
9; William Henry Payne, 90, Nescopeck Civil War veteran;

14, Dr. D. A. Hart, 64, Dorrance Township physician; 
21, W. N. Multer, 73, Kingston realtor; 
25, Rev. Martin F. Corrigan, Parsons priest; 
27, Dr. C. M. Olmstead, 68, former Wilkes-Barre minister, at Nicholson; 
31, Sylvester Z. Poli, 77, builder of Poli Theatre, in Connecticut.

June, 1937-
1, Dr. E. U. Buckman, 73, Wilkes-Barre physician; 
6, Dr. F. B. Kleintob, Wyoming physician and school director; 
9, Dr. Tom Mayock, Wilkes-Barre dentist; 
11, Rev. Dr. Leon K. Willman, 63, Wilkes-Barre minister; 
17, Dr. Henry M. Neale, 79, Upper Lehigh;
27, Capt. Richard Leyshon, Parsons native and retired Army officer, in Florida.

July, 1937-
3, Harry A. Whiteman, Wilkes-Barre wholesale stationer; 
6, Timothy F. O'Donnell, Parsons druggist; 
10, Attorney Frank A. McGuigan, Wilkes-Barre, in New York City; 
10, Elizabeth Price Close, 90, of Plymouth; 
11, E. E. Loomis, Lehigh Valley Railroad president, at Summit, N. J.; 
17, Frank dark, Wilkes-Barre jeweler; 
18, Dennis Brislin, Hanover Township, mine leader; 
22, John Curtis, Wilkes-Barre, building contractor; 
28, Harry R. Sorber, West Nanticoke, retired lumberman and building contractor.

August, 1937-
2, Clinton L. Bardo, NewYork railroad magnate, formerly of Wilkes-Barre; 
6, Mrs. E. Greenough Scott, 99, of Wilkes-Barre; 
6, Mrs. Agnes A. Harding, Pittston, welfare worker;
7, Samantha Jane Mill, 81, member of pioneer Nanticoke family; 
15, John J. Gallagher, 52, Hanover Township business man; 
18, Monsignor J. M. Smoul-ter, 76, priest, at Scranton; 
21, John C. Walkingshaw, Kingston musician; 
21, lowerth Jones, 79, former school director and water company official; 
27, Thomas W. Jenkins, former West Pittston burgess.

September, 1937-
2, Attorney G. H. Mc-Donnell, 63, of Kingston; 
4, Rev. Peter McHugh, 56, formerly of Sugar Notch and Pittston, in Scranton; 
9, Thomas Battison, 73, Ashley florist; 
16, Dr. John W. Sarpolis, 41, Newport Township physician;  
17,  Miller S.  Frederick, Wilkes-Barre funeral director; 
19, Richard Sharpe, 85, financier, at Glen Summit; 
22, Randolph Bennett, 95, early Nanticoke settler; 
22, Asa E. Lewis, Dallas educator and former compensation referee; 
26, Frank B. Sgarlat, 55, Forty Fort contractor; 
27, Rev. William F. Boyle, Hazleton priest; 
29, Ferdinand S. Fowler, Pine View, publisher; 
29, Thomas  Allardyce,  Pittston,  former county detective.

October, 1937-
5, Dr. Charles A. Ruddy, Hudson dentist; 
8, Rev. M. E. Loftus of Scranton, formerly of Pittston; 
18, Samuel S. Breese, Forty Fort, merchant; 
25, Dr. R. R. Montelius, Hazleton dentist;
29, E. J. Keating, Sr., 74, Pittston Township tax collector; 
30, Dr. John R. Haynes, 84, native of Fairmount Springs, at Los Angeles.

November, 1937-
4, Dr. M. A. Barton, 59, Plains physician; 
4, Rev. Alexis Holos-nyay, 70, of Freeland; 
13, Rev. Dr. John McDowell, 67, of East Orange, formerly of Maltby; 
13, Rev. John J. McCabe, 70, Wilkes-Barre priest; 
13, Merle Breese, 51, Wyoming, former county engineer; 
15, John David, 67, chain store founder, in Atlantic City, formerly of Pittston; 
18, Harry Marcy, 79, a founder of Penn Tobacco Company; 
21, Rev. Mills S. Grimes, White Haven minister, in New York City; 
24, Fred L. Space, 72, Forty Fort lumberman; 
25, Daniel H. Welker, 59, Kingston merchant; 
26, Capt. George N. Dietrich, Army officer and former Hazleton city treasurer.


December, 1937-
1, Mrs. Burr Churchill Miller, 69, clubwoman; 
5, James Langan, former Pittston mayor; 
5, Evan Challis, former Wilkes-Barre councilmen and official; 
5, Richard L. Evans, 79, former mine expert and former Edwardsville councilman and school director; 
7, Edwin F. Gibbs, 62, Nanticoke banker; 
9, William M. Crotzer, 64, Nanticoke jeweler.


Typed by Susan,  March 2003