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WILKES-BARRE RECORD ALMANAC     1943

DEATHS IN LUZERNE COUNTY
Among the prominent men and men claimed by death since November 30, 1941, were:

DECEMBER, 1941
1, Dr. C. L. Boston, 82, Noxen physician; 
5, B. F. Bulford, 86, Dallas Boro founder;
7, John Golden, Hughestown councilman; 
12, Rev. E. J. Barnnes, 68, retired Forty Fort Minister; 
13, John Comerford, 80, Los Angeles, theater magnate and former Plymouth resident; 
18, Liall Brown, former Yatesville burgess; 
21, Mrs. Benjamin Reynolds, 89, Bear Creek, founder of Home for Homeless Women; 
24, Dr. Emery Richards, Wilkes-Barre physician; 
28, Mary Ann Tennant, Jenkins Township teacher for years.

JANUARY, 1942
5, Rev. S. E. Davies, 72, Luzerne, retired pastor of Bennett Memorial Presbyterian Church; 
13, Martin iin, 77, Wilkes-Barre, hotel proprietor
16, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, Forty Fort, aunt of Governor Arthur H. James; 
18, Richard J. Horn, 44, member of police force for 17 years; 
22, James V. Lavezzari, 77, administrator of St. Mary's Italian Catholic Church, Old Forge; 
23, William E. Sharpe, Pittston merchant; 
29, Morgan W. Thomas, 69, Wilkes-Barre, mer select council member.

FEBRUARY
!, Rev. Francis Kasaczun, 56, pastor Holy Family Polish Church, Sugar Notch, in Cuba;
8, Dr. Dana W. Kingsbury, 89, Nanticoke; 
9, Rev. Thomas M. Jordan, 61, pastor of St. Dominic's Church, Parsons; 
10, Dr. Frank J. Kosek, 60, Wilkes-Barre physician and former City Bacteriologist; 
15, John T. Samuel, 72, Wilkes-Barre educator; 
18, Joseph Klosowski, 62, Plymouth bank director and businessman; 
21, Samuel Francis, Edwardsville, former deputy sheriff; 
22, Mrs. Katherine G. Kniffen, widow of former Mayor Lewis G. Kniffen; 
26, Daniel J. Connell, Pittston city clerk.

MARCH
3, Attorney P. F. O'Neill, 64, Wilkes-Barre, Lehigh Valley Coal Company counsel; 
5, Thomas P. Con-nelly, 99, retired Ashley businessman; 
14, Rev. Valentine S. Matuszewski, assistant pastor of St. Mary's Polish Church, Swoyerville; 
15, James White, 92, Wilkes-Barre, widely known mining expert; 
16, George F. McCord, 67, Kingston, retired F. W. Woolworth Company executive; 
18, Msgr. J. V. Huss:e, 79, in Pittsburgh, pastor of St. Paul's Parish, Scranton, formerly at St. Leo's Ashley; 
22, Judge Benjamin R. Jones, 73, retired jurist; 
24, Mortimer Goldsmith, 59, Wilkes-Barre, president of Hess-Goldsmith Silk Company; 
29, William M. Renow-den, 62, captain of Engine Company 4, Wilkes-Barre Fire Department. 

APRIL
6, Sister Mary Eduardis, professor of home economics at College Misericordia; 
7, William H. Evans, 35, Wilkes-Barre city health officer; 
8, Morris Thomas, 69, Warrior Run, former deputy sheriff; 
9, Frank R. Hy-man, Pittston, founder of clothing store chain; 
12, Dr. Francis C. O'Mal-ley, 52, Plains physician; 
17, Jacob Purvin, 78, Wilkes-Barre, founder of Purvin Dairy Company; 
22, Mrs. Ers-kine L. Solomon, 65, Wilkes-Barre; 
29, J. Joseph Millin, Pittston furniture dealer; Rev. W. J. Green, Parsons, retired Baptist minister.

MAY
2, Ambrose Langan, Pittston, County Assessor and politician; 
7, Edward C. Shovlin, 63, Wilkes-Barre; 
9, Mrs. W. B. .Beers, 76, widow of city grocer; 
13, Evans C. Jones, 79, Warrior Run; retired mine foreman; 
14, Rev. A. J. Kerr, 88, at Selkirk, N. Y., former pastor of Memorial Presbyterian Church, city; 
18, Norman Roderick, 54, former hardware merchant; 
21, Arthur L. Stull, 73, at Oakland, Md., pioneer lumber and ice dealer; 
27, Hugh J. McKane, 60, Kingston, owner of Square Print Shop.

JUNE
1, William S. Bodmer, 59, Kingston, State highway engineer; 
2, Thomas W. Blanford, 82, Edwardsville's oldest fireman; 
3, Joseph F. Collins, 52, Parson's undertaker; George W. Brown-son, 60, former Hazleton chief of police; 
5, Charles Thomas, Nanticoke jeweler; 
7, Adolf Rakoczy, Wilkes-Barre, prominent in Polish-American activities; 
9, Fred Walser, Hazleton city treasurer; 
2(sic), Attorney John G. Hibbard, 51, Wanamie; 
13, Mrs. Clara S. Robertson, Memphis, part owner of Wilkes-Barre Record and stockholder in Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company; 
15, John B. Lenahan, 68, Wilkes-Barre attorney; Joseph Banks, 63, Wilkes-Barre, highway contractor; 
16, Dr. T. J. Wenner, Nesbitt Memorial Hospital pathologist; 
20, Capt. John H. Doughty, Forty Fort, mechanical engineer; 
22, Gomer R. Davis, 60, Wilkes-Barre electrical contractor; 
27, Dr. Douglas S. Kistler, 62, Wilkes-Barre physician; 
29, John J. German, Inkerman, super-intendnt of International Color Printing Company.

JULY
6, Miss Kathleen Hand, at Charles-town, W. Va., former Wilkes-Barrean; 
8, Albert J. Llewellyn, 70, Plymouth, former president of Luzerne County Gas and Electric Company; 
10, Rev. Arthur K. Lindsey, 63, Trucksville, elder of Wilkes-Barre district of Free Methodist Church, at Newburgh, N. Y.; 
12, Andrew J. Hale, 72, at Lake Nuangola, retired Wilkes-Barre lumber dealer; 
21, Peter Murphy, 80, Wilkes-Barre, court officer; 
22, Prof. Thomas S. Davis, former supervisor of music in Kingston schools; 
27, Abram Thomas, 45, Kingston, former manager of Westmoreland Club; 
30, Charles H. Hall, West Pittston, historian; 
31, Rev. James Reilly, 52, Catholic priest.

AUGUST
3, Henry Kleinkauf, Forty Fort, musician; 
4, Senator Laning Harvey, 60, at Bear Creek home; 
6, Frank I. Remmel, Kingston banker; 
13, John Henry Jones, clothier and former member of Wilkes-Barre School Board; 
14, A. J. Barber, 64, Kingston, real estate broker; 16, John Williams, 81, former mine executive; 
17, Joseph Phillips, 69, Forty Fort, court reporter and attorney; 
18, S. Goldstein, Plymouth ice cream manufacturer at Harvey's Lake; 
19, Attorney Louis Barber, 67, Kingston, in Wilkes-Barre; 
21, George Tomascik, 53, Wilkes-Barre insurance man; 
31, Thomas P. Morgan, 65, former tax collector of Miners Mills, at Forty Fort.

SEPTEMBER
6, Prof. Adolph Hansen, 83, director of Concordia Singing Society; 
8, Patrick J. Ramsey, dean of Wilkes-Barre newspaper reporters; 
11, Mrs. Harriet S. Houtz, 56, head nurse of Wilkes-Barre School District; 
11, John P. King, 95, Wyoming Valley's last remaining Civil War Veteran; 
14, Dr. Matthew C. O'Brien, Pittston osteopath; 
15, Rev. John E. Lynott, 66, pastor of Haly Savior Roman Catholic Church, Wilkes-Barre; 
25, Allan H. Peters, 72, long-time president of County Epworth League; 
28, Sam R. Baltimore, 55, manager of radio station WERE, in New York; 
30, Dr. James T. Williams, Kingston, physician and surgeon.

OCTOBER
5. George Newitt, 80, Kingston; 
7, Thomas Parkinson, 59, Wyoming Borough chief of police at Lake Carey; 
8, Stanley Durland, 62, West Side businessman; 
10, Ellerslie W. Larrish, 91, retired lumber dealer; 
12, Rev. E. Parke Brown, 48, in Philadelphia, former local Baptist pastor; 
19, A. K. Lindsay, 71, Kingston, former Forty Fort chief of police; 
20, Mary Margaret Myers Yeager, daughter of late Lawrence Myers; 
22, R. E. O'Donnell, Avoca merchant; 
23, Mrs. Agnes Wood, Record telephone operator; 
28, Evan J. Reese, Wilkes-Barre Township commissioner; 
29, William F. Maguire, Plains, director of Central Poor District and former newspaperman.

NOVEMBER
3, Charles S. Puckey, 77, Nanticoke banker; 
15, Henry Weigand, retired president of Penn Tobacco Company 
17, Daniel Webster, Towanda, 69, retired Lehigh Valley Railroad employe in Wilkes-Barre area; 
18, Chester L Nesbitt, 55, Forty Fort, electrical engineer; 
19, Patrick Wynne, Inkerman, former member of State House of Representatives and director of Pittston-Jenkins Poor District; 
26, Rev. Thomas Durkin, Athens, formerly at St. Dominic's Roman Catholic Church, Parsons; 
28, Frank W. Kreig, 68, former Chief of Police of Wilkes-Barre.


Submitted by Pat Matthews and Pat Hillon, April 2003