DEATHS IN LUZERNE COUNTY Some of the prominent man and women claimed by death in Luzerne County from December 1, 1937, to December 1, 1938 The following information is posted for the sole purpose of family research within the Yahoo Group, The Court House Gang. It is not to be published to any other web site, mailing list, group, etc. without prior written permission and guidelines from the group owner, to ensure that proper credit is given to the group and all of our volunteers that helped with this project. December, 1937 1.st Mrs. Burr C. Miller, 69, Wilkes-Barre 5th James Langan, former Pittston mayor.....Edward G. Gibbs, 62, Nanticoke, businessman 21.st Dr. E. R. Roderick, 65, Wilkes-Barre, eye specialist 26.th John MacLuskie, 63, Wilkes-Barre, politician and band leader 27th Leander Simpson, 92, Pittston Civil War veteran 28th Charles W. Honeywell, 78, Plymouth burgess James F. O'Boyle, 55, coal operator 29th Jess Briggs, 91, Wilkes-Barre, Civil War veteran 31.st Rev. J. L. Thomas, 82, Trucksville, retired minister January, 1938 1st Rev. Joseph W. Treitz, 75, Hazelton priest 2.nd John Issacs, 61, Kunkle tax collector 4th William T. Harris, 55, Nanticoke banker George Harrison, Plains school director 16th Dr. James Roy Beaver, 50, West Pittston, physician 17th Frank Strzalka, Newport Township, commissioner and funeral director 19th Harry R. Whitcraft, 66, former city newspaperman 20th John P. Schmitt, 62, Wilkes-Barre contractor 23rd Isaac S. Walker, 55, Philadelphia, vice-president & general manager of Scranton-Spring Brook Water Service Co. 31st David W. Thomas, 59, retired Wilkes-Barre merchant February 2nd Walter M. McAvoy, Hazelton, former county commissioner 10th Allen Meade, 97, Wilkes-Barre, Civil War veteran 22nd Patrick A. Boyle, 55, Hazelton banker March 5th Dr. Stephen W. Grycka, 49, Reading, formerly of Kingston 7th Mrs. John Laning, Wilkes-Barre, civic leader 11th Michael H. Gaughan, Sugar Notch, burgess 13th Dr. Samuel L. Oppenheim, Wilkes-Barre 15th Sally L. Oppenheim, Wilkes-Barre 16th Dr. A.C. Shoemaker, 69, West Pittston, dentist 17th Jacob R. Bahney, 58, Wilkes-Barre, musician 20th Miss Jane A. Shoemaker, Wilkes-Barre Mrs. Victor Lee Dodson, Kingston Patrick P Mangan, Kingston, former city editor of the Record 25th Rt. Rev. Thomas C. O'Reily, Bishop of Scranton Roman Catholic Diocese John J. Hefferon, 55, Pittston, former State Representative 27th Reuben Blakeslee, Hanover Green, singer Captain Walter S. Henning, Wyoming, Lehigh Valley Railroad police official April 5th Rev. P.J. Graffikin, Scranton, formerly of White Haven 7th Herbert Reynolds of Kingston John T. Ford, Pittston, merchant 8th Charles J. McGough, former president of Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce 10th Leonard M. Utz, Wilkes-Barre, grocer 11th Rev. John J. Reggio, pastor St. Rocco's Italian Church, Pittston 13th Sister Gertrude Mary, mother superior of St. Vincent's Convent, Plymouth 14th Andrew J. Rubiscak, Wilkes-Barre, coal company president 21st Miss Margaret Jackson, librarian of Hoyt Library, Kingston 24th Attorney John J. Reynolds, Tunkhannock Fred J. Beach, 90, Wilkes-Barre, civil engineer May 2nd Dr. Addison Terrey, 71, West Pittston veterinary 3rd Rev. Harry Eustice Ellston, 48, Mahanoy City, formerly Parsons 6th Mrs. Ella LeGrand Ryder, 39, singer 7th Mrs. J.M. Horner, 42, Forty Fort 9th Ed J. Healey, 66, former Nanticoke mayor 10th Mrs. Nettie Cannon Moore, wife of Attorney E.J. Moore 13th Rev. A.D. Decker, 77, Binghamton, former pastor Derr Memorial 14th Mrs. John D. Williams, Dallas, musician 16th Alvin L. Stull, 71, Plymouth, merchant 17th James T. Harris, musician, Scranton John Benton Fassett, 71, Tunkhannock, banker 21st Charles M. Wagner, 78, Pittston 22nd Dr. Gilbert D. Murray, 80, Scranton surgeon 25th William P. Gallagher, 55, chief clerk House of Representatives 28th Mrs. George E. Paddock, 74, Kingston Mrs. Mont W. Waters, city 29th Hanna Elizabeth Johnson, pioeer resient Charles K. Gloman, 68, mine official Samuel Oppenheim, 76, orchestra leader 30th Rev. P.J. Colligan, Plymouth June 2nd G.L. Williams, 50, Cleveland, merchant 4th W.F. Trimble, 71, Kingston, mine foreman J.B. Potter, 64, general manager, Wilkes-Barre Railroad Corporation 6th Mrs. A.T. Newberry, 89, New Milford, Conn. 7th Mrs. Charles Morgan, city 8th Miss Margaret Renniman, Scranton, teacher George Webb Price, 83, Philadelphia, brother of late Col. W.C. Price 9th John McGinley, 59, Old Forge, coal operator 11th Peter Carroll, 79, city sewer expert Mrs. Benjamin Levy, Scranton 14th Mrs. Elizabeth Powell, 92, Larksville 15th Frank Ives, 84, Ransom ferryman 16th Eli Rosser, 86, Kingston 18th Sara J. Cape, Plymouth teacher Dr. William Collett, 31, Philadelphia psychiatrist 19th Mrs. Austin F. Duffy, Sr., West Scranton, wife of Government railroad expert 20th Conrade Nagle, 87, Nanticoke, carpenter foreman Dr. L.H. Smith, 78, Hazelton, physician 22nd Franklin R. Stokes, 90, Kingston 23rd Hugh J. Tormay, 64, Hazelton 26th Fred J. Womelsdorf, 70, West Nanticoke 27th W.E. Jennings, 65, Forty Fort Fred Rineman, 54, Trucksville, dairyman John M. Davis, 55, Kingston, official Spring Brook Water Company 28th Abraham Michlosky, 86, merchant July 7th Dr. Lawrence F. Flick, 81, founder of White Haven Sanitorium 14th M.S. Widermuth, 79, photographer Joseph Alexander, bank director 15th Mrs. Frederic E. Zerbey, Bear Creek 25th Louis Levine, Pittston, merchant 26th Lewis W. Krieger, 47, principal Kingston High School Rev. Samuel P. Boone, 79, Hazelton, retired M.E. minister 28th William Leslie, 83, Wilkes-Barre, retired newspaperman 29th Harold Rust, 65, prominent Masonic leader 30th James J. Shanley, secretary Plymouth Chamber of Commerce and former Record correspondence Frank Chrzan, 42, Nanticoke merchant and bank director August 2nd Edward Riley, 93, South Wilkes-Barre 4th David S. Anthony, 68, music superintendent, Newport Township Mrs. Ruth Ann Coolbaugh, 91, Moosic 7th Dr. M.H. Fischer, 62, Gettysburg, formerly Wilkes-Barre Mrs. M.W. Welles, 66, Baptist minister, Scranton 8th Harry Roth, 60, Wilkes-Barre, electrician 9th Daniel C. Sallett, 27, Coughlin High School teacher (drowned in Canada) Charles Tillinghast Carpenter, 84, blacksmith-wheelwright, Mehoopany, formerly Wyoming William W. Spry, 68, Plymouth justice of the peace 10th William Stroh, 74, Forty Fort florist 14th Mrs. Raymond M. Eaton, Forty Fort, wife of Hazard Wire Works manager 15th Mrs. Isabelle R. Brown, 101, Wilkes-Barre Sister Alfredina, 54, assistant principal St. Ann's Academy 16th Arthur Blanchard, 80, Washington, D.C., once boatman on Susquehanna, here 19th Joseph Z. Thomas, 81, former Plymouth tax collector 22nd Frank Keller, Duryea councilman 23rd Mrs. Ida Sutliff Hobbes, 73, Kingston, widow, Attorney D.M. Hobbes 26th Richard J. Ayre, 64, Parsons, Hudson Coal Company official 27th Frank Kowalewski, 50, Edwardsville merchant 29th Mrs. Louisa Obici, 75, wife of Amedo Obici, president of Planters' Nut Company September 4th John Bienias, 55, Hanover Green, founder Polish Union of United States of North America 12th Thomas B. Evans, 91, Kingston, among first Edwardsville school directors 15th Albert C. Boettger, 76, Kingston, Lehigh Valley engineer 18th Mrs. Hannah Long Coons, 75, widow of Joseph S. Coons 20th William Kelly, 91, former Nanticoke councilman 22nd Lewis A. Tompkins, 73, vice-president, controller of Lehigh Valley Coal Company 24th Dr. Nathaniel Ross, 71, member Nesbitt Hospital staff 26th Adolph Dattner, 73, Luzerne merchant 27th G.L. Weitzel, 91, Shavertown, painter Dr. Kenneth J. French, 75, Factoryville, physician 28th Joseph P. Streidle, 75, Wilkes-Barre tailor John Hughes Blackman, Sr., 72, Life Insurance Company 29th William C. Henwood, 82, Kingston October 7th Edward J. Lokuta, Duryea undertaker Henry W. Merritt, druggist and former Wilkes-Barre postmaster 12th Ira D. Cooke, Dallas,engineer and surveyor 13th James L. Williamson, city, insurance broker 17th Oliver C. Fernsler, 65, Wilkes-Barre, printer 20th Francis Devlin, Wilkes-Barre, theater manager 21st former Senator Patrick F. Joyce, Pittston 28th Rev. L. Domer Ulrich, pastor St. John's Lutheran Church, Wilkes-Barre November 2nd Rexford J. Noak, 45, Forty Fort, assistant county superintendent of schools 3rd Samuel Chase, Huntsville, civic leader 6th Mrs. Corinne Gramm Hefferman, 42, Kingston 13th Rev. Richard J. Curnow, 63, pastor Schickshinny Presbyterian Church 15th Henry W. Heiderich, 82, former Hazelton mayor 17th Judge William S. McLean, Jr., Wilkes-Barre jurist and soldier 19th Joseph K. Weitzenkorn, Wilkes-Barre, retired merchant 22nd Jesse A. Alden, 75, Hazelton, former assistant county superintendent of schools Typed by Janie Symons, May 2004