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DEATHS IN LUZERNE COUNTY

AMONG THE PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN CLAIMED BY DEATH SINCE NOVEMBER 30, 1939, WERE:

DECEMBER, 1939
3.  Mrs. M.F.M. SHOEMAKER, 90, oldest member of Memorial Presbyterian Church,
       Wilkes-Barre;
4.  Dr. Pierson A. MECK, 80, Nanticoke physician;
5.  Rev. Jacob MARKARIAN, 67, of Scranton, former Duryea Presbyterian minister;
8.  Elmer H. LAWALL, 78, Wilkes-Barre, consulting engineer;
10.  Dr. T.V. McLAUGHLIN, 58, Wilkes-Barre physician;
14.  Nat D. STEVENS, 48, Tunkhannock, coal operator;
17.  Dr. George W. KRICK, 50, West Pittston physician;
24.  Charles R. ANDREWS, 75, Pittston stationer;
27.  Frederick W. QUOOS, 64, Nanticoke banker;
       Lois DELANEY, Pittston, spinal meningitis;  **
30.  G.A.A. KUEHN, 73, Dallas druggist.
JANUARY, 1940
3.  Attorney George F. O’BRIEN, 61, Scranton, formerly of Pittston;
4.   Maurice J.GIRTON, 50, Dallas Township education;
5.   Joseph COMERFORD, 47, Hazleton Theater manager;
6.  Dr. Charles W. TRESSLER, 62, Shickshinny physician;
11.  Mrs. Sara Dean ROSSER, wife of Kingston banker;
20.  Henry D. EDMUNDS, 68, Nanticoke merchant;
22.  Alderman James M. WALTERS, Nanticoke;
25.  Rev. Herbert F. RANDOLPH, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, at Tucson, Ariz.;
26.  Herbert CONYNGHAM, 66, Wilkes-Barre native, in New York City;
28.  Adolph HERSKOVITZ, 61, Wilkes-Barre, inheritance tax appraiser;
       Joseph P. FORD, Forty Fort realtor;
30.  Mrs. Frances T. ENGLISH, mother of Mayor Kenneth ENGLISH of Pittston.
FEBRUARY, 1940
5.  Attorney Frederick W. DENNISON, 67, at Chevy Chase, Md.;
9.  Mrs. Catherine KRESGE, 100, mother of chain store founder, at Saylorsburg;
11.  Joseph NEWBERGER, former city resident, killed in NC plane crash  **
14.  Rev. Thomas P. LEONARD, 73, Wilkes-Barre Priest;
       John B. JENNINGS, West Pittston lumberman;
18.  Anthony F. MATZER, 65, Wilkes-Barre band-leader;
20.  Rev. Louis B. BRYDEN, West Wyoming, Baptist minister;
21.  Mrs. Martha BRYDEN, 104, Wilkes-Barre;
       John BICKMAN, former city resident, found in snow near Noxen        **
22.  John S. HAMMONDS, 67, Kingston, former Lehigh Valley Coal Company district 
       Superintendent;
23.  Rev. Aloysius M. BALOGA, 38, Mocanaqua priest;
28.  Owen McMAHON, 91, Wilkes-Barre merchant and pioneer of Far West;
29.  Alexander Marion HUGHES, 93, Kingston, valley’s last Civil War Veteran.
MARCH 1940
 4.  Charles E. MORGAN, 79, Wilkes-Barre;
      Dr. William J. O’BRIEN, Sugar Notch native, in Philadelphia;
 5.  Robert W. LANGFORD, West Pittston insurance agent;
 7.  Burgess Michael J. HEALEY of Avoca;
 9.  A.W.B. EVANS, Forty Fort, florist;
12.  Mrs. John Courtney HADDOCK, 83, widow of coal pioneer;
18.  John F. McGROARTY, 62, Philadelphia, former Wilkes-Barre tax collector
22.  Roland GRATER of Kingston killed in auto accident in Dallas Township    **
23.  Charles A. WITT, 74, former county employee;
26.  Dr. J. Adrian CONLAN, Pittston, killed in auto accident near Daleville
27.  Mrs. Mignonette DICK, 69, widow of a Boston Store founder;
29.  Edward CHOPER, 38, Kingston, merchant, in New York City
APRIL 1940
1.  Robert D. FULTON of Pittston washed overboard near San Francisco;    **
3.  Rev. William MACALPINE, 65, Parsons, Methodist minister;
5.  Councilman David J. DAVIES, 64, West Pittston;                                     
7.  Cora BARRY, 10, of Mountain Top, killed by car                                     **
14.  Attorney John D. FARNHAM, 72, Wilkes-Barre, at Sayre;
26.  Roy E. STAHL, Nanticoke banker, at Reading;
27.  John NOBEL, 70, former city councilman;
       Councilman John KEATING, Edwardsville;
30.  Dr. Clarence W. PREVOST, West Pittston physician;
MAY 1940
1.  William YATES, Hanover Township Commissioner;
5.  Rev. William HOLLOWAY, 71, retired minister;
      Crawford C. SMITH, 65, lumberman and former county commissioner;
      Frank FREDERICK, Pittston, fatally shot at Belleville, N.J.;                      **
7.  John FINN, Miners Mills bottler;
9.  Rev. Ferdinand von KRUG, 91, Wyoming, retired minister;
10. Edwin S. FISKE, 70, Wilkes-Barre business man;
14.  Joseph KRUTINLIS at Wyoming killed by lightning bold                         **             
15.  Councilman Raymond BEGLIOMINI, 27, West Wyoming;
17.  Rev. J. Arthur GLASER, 58, former West Pittston minister, in Maine;
18.  School Director James MORAN, Pittston Township;
19.  Michael J. McHUGH, 58, superintendent Ransom Home and Hospital;
21.  Joseph JENDRZEJEWSKI, 55, Wilkes-Barre funeral director;
24.  Attorney Harry H. WEINTRAUB, 57, Wilkes-Barre;
28.  Hiram C. JOHNSON, Wilkes-Barre funeral director;
JUNE 1940
3.  Daniel C. ROBERTS, 80, Wilkes-Barre philanthropist;
      Edward STEIN, 68, retired wholesales druggist, in New York City;
 4.  Thomas W. BROWN, 82, former city councilman;
 5.  John FEENEY, theater manager, killed in Larksville auto accident                **
 6.  Lucy Huston STURDEVANT, 80, descendant of early Connecticut Settlers;
 7.  Stanly MONT, 66, Nanticoke jeweler;
10.  Police Sergeant John J. RITTENMEYER, 57, Wilkes-Barre;
14.  Rev. John R. MELROY, White Haven, retired minister;
16.  John A. HINES, Pittston coal operator;
19.  Frank PLATSKY, 64, Wilkes-Barre merchant;
20.  William W. MULTER, 45, Forty Fort, former county controller;
25.  Mrs. Michael LABORCZY of Miners Mills killed in Laflin auto accident;   **
26.  James E. THOMAS, 52, Nanticoke contractor and building inspector;
28.  Neil McDERMOTT, 64, city official and former merchant.
JULY 1940
1.  James M. HARRISON, 45, Wilkes-Barre school teacher; 
      Michael BONE, Exeter, auto accident;                                                             **
      Peter DALKIEWICZ, Nanticoke, auto accident;                                             **
 2.  Mrs. Catharine S. O’BOYLE of Wilkes-Barre killed by automobile;             **
 3.  Fred KALITIVA, Nanticoke, truck accident victim;                                       **
 4.  Police Sergeant John C. LOFTUS, 46, Wilkes-Barre;
 5. William J. HOCHBERG, Wilkes-Barre, body taken from river;                     **
 7.  Joseph G. GIBBONS, 46, Bear Creek, lumber dealer;
 8.  Eugene GRIFFIN, Dallas, killed in fall in Scranton                                       **
 9.  William F. BAKER, Harding, Lehigh Valley Railroad official;
10.  Rev. James W. LOFTUS, 44, Wilkes-Barre native at Little Meadows;
11.  Vincent A. EGAN, 45, Wilkes-Barre, druggist;
14.  Edward M. ROSSER, 71, Kingston banker;
       Dr. William H. BERGE, 71, Scranton, coal operator;
17.  Ove C. von SCHLANBUSH, 67, Nanticoke, engineer and former Danish Royal 
        Guard officer;
18.  Charles BOWER, Wilkes-Barre, drowned in river at LaGrange;                 **
       Michael BEGANY, Kingston, crushed by steam shovel at Edwardsville;   **
19.  Joseph J. JANOSKI, 66, Nanticoke merchant;
20.  Rev. Henry P. BURKE, 71, Avoca priest;
       Attorney C.A. ROGAN, Freeland;
21.  Patrick McNULTY, 45, Duryea fatally injured by train;                              **
22.  Dr. Herbert L. RANSON, 64, Pittston surgeon;
25.  Benjamin S. MADDO?, Wilkes-Barre, retired Lehigh Valley Coal Company     
        Executive;
       Alice KOPOCHUS, Plymouth, drowned in river;                                       **
26.  Rev. Charles E. GUTHRIE, former Wilkes-Barre minister at East Auro ????;
       Thomas MILLER, 17, Dallas Township, drowned in Franklin Township Lake; **
28.  Rev. John J. COX, 65, West Pittston Priest;
29.  Dr. John A. SINGER, 82, formerly of Forty Fort, at East Stroudsburg;
30.  Lottie MACZUGA killed in auto collision in Hanover Township;                **
       Louise MARTIN killed in auto collision in Hanover Township;                   **
       Irene KRYZEWSKI killed in auto collision in Hanover Township.              **              
AUGUST 1940
2.  John A. SCHMIDT, 38, Kingston, building contractor
      John J. ZARANICK, Dupont Borough Incorporator;
 3.  John HEIDRICH, 68, former Kingston tax collector;
 4.  William RITTENMEYER, 81, oldest retired mailman in state and oldest Wilkes-
      Barre volunteer fireman;
11.  Dr. Lewis L. ROGERS, JR., 50, Kingston x-ray specialist;
12.  Charles W. MATHESON, 64, automobile pioneer at Forty Fort, in Broadhead,
      Wisc.;
14.  Dr. F.E. ROGERS, 45, Kingston chiropractor;
15.  Mrs. Margaret ASKEW, 27, dies of gasoline burns;                                           **
18.  Joseph GREGOR, 23, Miners Mills, fatally injured by train;
19.  William HANDLEY, Larksville, killed in auto accident;                                   **
        Thomas SHIMKO smothered at Duryea;                                                          **                                          
20.  Dr. Theodore J. JOHNSON, 86, West Pittston physician;
       Dr. John J. TIMLIN, 81, Old Forge physician;
23.  J.W. LINTERN, West Pittston, chain store official;
       O.S. YOUNG, 61, former Kingston councilman, at Morristown, N.J.;
24.  Reuben Jay FLICK, 69, former city published, at Lenox, Mass.;
       Thomas J. MANGAN, Plymouth, former councilman and merchant;
25.  David V. THOMAS, 74, Wilkes-Barre, funeral director;
26.  Harry W. YETTER, 63, Forty Fort, publisher;
27.  Frank Hemingway, 86, former city councilman and business man, at Allentown;
29.  E. Arthur ASTON, 55, Wilkes-Barre druggist;
       Esau DAVIS, 66, former president Plymouth Borough Council;
30.  Simon TARASEVICH, 49, Plymouth, mine union official;
       Max GOLDBERG, 58, Kingston, retired bakery owner,
31.  Mrs. Sara WEINBERG fatally injured in accident at Binghamton.                    **
SEPTEMBER 1940
 3.  Zigmund A. MORRIS, Sugar Notch funeral director;
      Albert SUTTER of Kingston killed in auto crash in Sciota;                               **
 6.  Leonor F. LOREE, 82, president of D. & H. Railroad, in New York City;
 7.  Burgess Michael FENDER, 45, Larksville;
 9.  Rev. D.D. BROWN, 65, formerly of Nanticoke, at Carlisle;
14. Mrs. Martin JOYCE of Pittston killed in crash at Tobyhanna;
16. Attorney David ROSENTHAL, 67, Wilkes-Barre bankruptcy referee, in New York
      City;
18.  Frank D. KANE, 72, Forty Fort, broker and former councilman;
21.  Cleon A. HANSON, 45, Wilkes-Barre instantly killed in plane crash on Mountain **
       Top;
        Edward WAKEMAN, Jr., Wilkes-Barre instantly killed in plane crash on             ** 
       Mountain Top:
22.  Dr. Floyd J. CROSS, 49, Wyoming dentist;
24.  David GIRVAN, 65, Nanticoke coal company official;
       George MARTIN of East End killed in D. & H. Railroad yards;                           **        
26.  Mrs. Margaret McBRIDE, 92, White Haven’s oldest resident;
27.  George E. WOODRING, 71, Hazleton contractor;
       Grace E. MARTIN of Loyalville killed by hit-run motorist;                                 **
29.  Edward RYBAK of Edwardsville fatally injured in Narrows auto accident;        **
       Paul HUDAK of Larksville fatally injured in Narrows auto accident;                  **
30.  Mary J. RITTER, 87, West Pittston, retired school teacher
OCTOBER 1940
 5.  Major Newton H. JENKINS, Kingston physician;
      Benjamin MARCIAVAGE, 36, slain in city rooming house                               **
 7.  William F. STEINHAUER, 65, Kingston, realtor and former city school director;
 8.  Duncan J. KERR, former Lehigh Valley Railroad president, at Spokane, Wash.;
      C. Harold LAYCOCK, 46, Kingston broker;
11. Rev. Joshua BRUNDLE, 77, retired minister at Endicott, N.Y.;
      Dr. C.A. WILKINSON, 79, Town Line native, at Kendall, Mich.;
      Councilman Richard H. DENNIS, West Wyoming;
      Sergeant Walter FREY, Wilkes-Barre, of accident injuries in Georgia;              **
13.  A. M. DERSHIMER, 62, Pittston business man;
       P.D. McNELIS, 72, Wilkes-Barre merchant;
       Michael KOTOWSKI, 18, Ashley, killed in fall from 70 foot power tower        **
14.  Rev. Dennis J. BUSTIN, 73, Inkerman priest;
16.  Fred Morgan KIRBY, 79, Wilkes-Barre, chain store founder, at Glen Summit;
       James BRISLIN, Jr., 9, killed by automobile;                                                      **
17.  Maryanne GILROY, 4, killed by truck at Pittston;                                               **
20.  Mrs. Marjorie L. DURKIN, 24, killed in Luzerne auto accident;                         **
       Daniel B. ROSE, 34, killed in Luzerne auto accident;                                          **
26.  Orphans’ Court Judge E. Foster HELLER, 60, Wilkes-Barre;
        Robert HARTZ killed in Breslau Bridge crash;                                                   **
        James J. SHOCK killed in Breslau Bridge crash;                                                 **
30.  John HOFFA, JR., killed in auto crash.                                                                 **
NOVEMBER 1940
2.  Rev. James JENKINS, 81, Kingston, retired minister;
      Mrs. Ira DEWITT, Wyoming, killed by automobile                                             **
 5.  Dr. Will S. KELLY, 80, Kingston dentist;
 6.  Thomas F. KEATING, former Pittston police chief;
 7.  Rev. W. Owen WILLIAMS, 73, Wilkes-Barre, retired minister;
      Edward A. STROUD, SR., 56, Kingston, business man;
      Lois REBHORN, Scranton, killed in auto explosion;                                           **
      William REBHORN, Scranton, killed in auto explosion;                                     **
 8.  John A. PARRY, Forty Fort, county official;
14.  Andrew J. DRUFFNER, Avoca banker and former borough official;
15.  Michael J. MRAS, 66, Plymouth, banker and business man;
       Carl Henry WEAVER of Harvey’s Lake accidentally killed by gunshot;            **
17.  Ferdinand MERMON, Plymouth, mine laborer, body recovered after 41-hour   **
       entombment at Nottingham mine;
18.  Claude W. KRESS, 64, chain store executive, formerly of Nanticoke, in New York
       City;
19.  Mrs. Witold KRZYWICKI, 43, Polish Union treasurer;
25.  Charles W. LAYCOCK, 80, Kingston, banker;
26.  Homer GREENE, 87, Honesdale, poet, author and attorney;
29.  John ZABOROWSKI, Newport Township commissioner;
30.  Clark Wright EVANS, 83, Wilkes-Barre architect and musician.

	** As recorded in “Record of Local Events”

Typed by Millie Evans,  April 2003