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DEATHS IN LUZERNE COUNTY
Among the prominent men and women claimed by death since November 30, 1940 were:

December, 1940
3rd.  Edward Rozelle, 86 Wyoming, contractor.
11th. Attorney Edwin B. Morgan, 60, Wilkes-Barre city solicitor.
12th. Frederick Hillman, 68, Wilkes-Barre investment broker.
14th. Mrs. W. S. Ricker, Kingston, church and organization worker.
16th. Attorney C. L. Robbins, 69, Wilkes-Barre.
17th. George Pace, 79, Kingston, retired coffee merchant.
20th. Mrs. Christina O. Wilson, 95, Pittston.
21st. William May, 79, Wilkes-Barre, district foreman, Hudson Coal Company.
22nd. W. B. McGuire, Wilkes-Barre, former newspaperman and politician.
23rd. William H. McMillan, Pittston banker.
24th. W. H. Sherrard, 88, Wilkes-Barre building contractor and Homeopathic Hospital founder.
27th. Charles Maurer, 76, former Wilkes-Barre councilman.
28th. C. M. Wilson, 65, Kingston associate of F. M. Kirby and Daniel C. Roberts in 5 and 10 cent stores.


January, 1941
3rd. James Humble, 54, Plains commissioner.
4th. G. Wilbur Bullock, Maplewood, NJ., J. J. Newberry Company executive and a former 
       Wilkes-Barre resident.
6th. G. M. Evans, 77, Kingston, former supervising principal of Kingston schools and Wilkes-Barre teacher.
12th. D. M. Rosser, 69, Kingston, former county commissioner.
14th. W. E. Bennett, 69, Trucksville, Kingston Township school director and electrical contractor.
17th. Kenneth Church, 63, Kingston druggist.
19th. Nicholas Fox, 69, Wilkes-Barre broker and president of Industrial Loss Corporation.
23rd. Charles C. Gorski, 67, Nanticoke, sealer of weights and measures and former tax collector.
24th. John A. Redington, Sr., Wilkes-Baarre hotel owner.
29th. Rev. J. T. Matthews, 85, Lee Park, retired P. M. minister.

February, 1941
1st. Wright Moseman, Laflin councilman for 30 years.
4th. Frank D. Dewees, 52, Forty Fort, coal stripping contractor.
7th. John Williamson, 72, Wilkes-Barre wholesale grocer.
10th. Rev. Judson N. Bailey, Nicholson, retired Methodist minister.
12nd. Michael A. Ford, Pittston druggist.
13rd. William Conlon, 55, Plains, general manager of coal company.
15th. George Drury, Pittston merchant.
16th. Rev. N. S. Sosnowski, 59, Hudson, pastor of St. Joseph’s Polish Church.
20th. Frank J. Hoffman, former Exeter burgess.
21st. A. L. LeGrand, 85, West Pittston, former vice-president and superintendent of Exeter Machine Shops.
23rd. William J. Burns, Pittston funeral director.
         Andrew C. Shepherd, 78, Kingston builder and contractor.
26th. Mrs. Mary Tra???, 60, formerly of Wilkes-Barre and former chief of Children’s Division of State  Department of Labor and Industry
27th. F. J. Groblewski, 53, Plymouth medicine concern executive.


March, 1941
5th. T. V. Brennan, 60, Plymouth postmaster and funeral director.
11th.B. G. Crandall, 54, Shavertown, former Chamber of Commerce official.
15th. Mrs. W. F. Newberry, Dallas, wife of former Woolworth executive.
19th. David H. McGowan, 75, Ashley, former councilman.
21st. Dr. Henry J. Wolman, 47, Plymouth optometrist and World War veteran.
23rd. John W. Becker, 81, Wilkes-Barre, retired merchant and former city controller.
24th. Louis C. Stevens, 55, Forty Fort, former Woolworth superintendent.
25th. David J. Roderick, 77, Hazleton, former mine inspector and city resident.
26th. John G. Robertson, 65, Forty Fort, former councilman.


April, 1941
1st. Dr. W. F. Roth, Kingston, physician and one of founders of Homeopathic Hospital.
5th. Russell B. Balliet, 50, Laurel Run, former burgess and school director.
8th. George Eigenbrod, Sr., 79, Dorrance, former supervisor and school director.
11th. Attorney James R. Scouton, 82, Wilkes-Barre.
17th. Enoch Williams, 66, Taylor, U.M.W. leader.
24th. Louis Rosenthal, 65, Wilkes-Barre clothier.
28th. Rev. E. J.. Gaffney, Avoca.


May, 1941
1st. John A. MacGuffie, 65, county commissioner.
5th. John J. Evans, 80, Pittston, former school director.
10th. Samuel B. Adkins, 82, Shickshinny newspaper publisher.
11th. Edward Wicks, 58, Pittston jeweler.
14th. Owen McGuire, West Pittston, county witness clerk.
15th. George Stephens, 58, Wilkes-Barre’s oldest fireman.
25th. Dr. J. A. Corson, Wilkes-Barre physician.
29th. Hayden Evans, 46, chief clerk to county assessors.
30th. William A. Roberts, 70, Plymouth theater manager.


June, 1941
9th. Ted J. Reilly, 65, Avoca, Commerford Manager.
10th Attorney A. L. Turner, Dallas.
14th Rev.A. B. Russell, 63, Wilkes-Barre PM minister.
16th Attorney M. H. McAniff, 77, Wilkes-Barre.
18th. C.N. Booth, 63, Wilkes-Barre, chief Lehigh Valley Coal police.
20th. W. J. Pauling, 71, Wilkes-Barre pharmacist.
24th. Attorney P. W. McKeown, 73, Wilkes-Barre.
27th. John Laning, 68, Wilkes-Barre.


July, 1941
7th. Rear Admiral Joseph Oman in London, brother of Mrs. Clara O Lecher, Wilkes-Barre.
3rd. Hon. Charles Calvin Bowman, Pittston, former representative and retired coal operator.
5th. Dr. John C. Storz, 72, Luzerne physician.
6th. Max Casper, 84, Wilkes-Barre businessman.
7th. Rev. Thomas C. Harwood, Harvey’s Lake Methodist minister.
10th. John Torma, deputy sheriff and Hanover Township commissioner.
12th. Henry Bonham, 82, retired Forty Fort merchant.
17th. Peter F. Goobic, Plains Township tax collector.
19th. Tom C. Hill, Wilkes-Barre jeweler.
28th. Dr. A. A. Barton, 92, dean of medical profession in valley.


August, 1941
11th. Daniel A. Nagle, Ashley street commissioner.
13th. Peter F. Flaim, Hazleton, business manager of Anthracite Tri-District News.
16th. William J. Gillespie, Harding, former Pittston businessman.
18th. Arthur Trethaway, 77.
19th. Edward Sylvanus Williams, supervising principal, Hanover Township schools.
         Frank Kilcoyne, Ashley, former borough official.
23rd. Michael G. Hudock, a founder of Sacred Heart Slovak Church, Wilkes-Barre.
25th. Morgan A. Jones, former furniture store executive.
29th. R. Lee Williams, Plymouth druggist.
30th. Fred W. Hermann, theater manage.
31st. Rev. Dr. Archangelo D’Anca, pastor of Holy Rosary Italian Church, Wilkes-Barre.


September, 1941
8th. Harry Tinker, West Pittston druggist.
9th. Joseph Bainbridge, Wyoming native.
13th. George V. O’Hara, Scranton, Glen Alden executive.
18th. John Morris, 75, Plymouth.
20th. Adam Stock, retired Carvertown farmer.
22nd. Thomas Grace, Pittston civic leader.
24th. J. Reese Kilgore, educator.
25th. Gills Gay, banker and lumber dealer.
29th. David Brown, Bucknell Junior College professor.


October, 1941
1st. Hugh Leslie, 78, former Ashley burgess.
7th. B. E. Davenport, 61, roundhouse foreman at Coxton Yards, of Lehigh Valley Railroad.
8th. Rev. M. C. Frick, Pikes Creek.
9th. Griffith Pritchard, 81, Kingston, veteran court tipstaff.
10th. Dr. Frank Lampman, 70, retired Wilkes-Barre physician.
11th. W. John Cumberland, 75, Nanticoke, former city assessor.
19th. Samuel A. Boyd, 46, Forty Fort burgess.
20th. Frederick G. Johnson, 50, Wilkes-Barre publisher of the Record.
24th. William Reese, 62, Wilkes-Barre, street department employe.
27th. Harold Mulhern, 36, Wilkes-Barre, county registration employe.
29th. Peter Strome, 83, Hanover Township, former school director.
31st. William Rosser, 63, Kingston, former councilman.


November, 1941
3rd. James P. Murray, 75, Wilkes-Barre.
5th. John Gurrea, Sr., 68, Wilkes-Barre merchant.
8th. Harry Wildrick, 65, Kingston, educator.
11th. Dr. Stephen Stevens, Kingston, Exeter physician.
        C. B. Sharkey, 70, West Pittston councilman.
12th. John R. Dershuck, co-owner of two Hazleton newspapers.
17th. Ambrose H. Orser, 69, Kingston.
21st. George Stroh, 87, Dallas, pioneer settler of Dallas Borough.

Typed By Elaine LaGreca,  March 2003