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 It is not to be published to any other web site, mailing list, group, etc.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. WILKES-BARRE BECORD ALMANAC 1945 DEATHS IN LUZERNE COUNTY Among prominent men and women claimed by death since November 30, 1943, were: DECEMBER, 1943 5, Rev. J. J. M'Guckin, pastor of St. Ignatius Church, Kingston George W. Dodson, director of Bureau of Municipal Affairs at Harrisburg Charles E. Kalmutz, one of the founders of YMHA 13, John A. Schmitt, coal expert; 18, Rev. Charles M. Con-way, retired Baptist minister; 21, J. Andrew Boyd, editor-emeritus of Wilkes-Barre Record; 24, Patrick A. Ramsey, labor mediator; 27, Robert V. Johnson, State mine" inspector; 30, Dr. Samuel L. Robinson, optometrist. JANUARY, 1944 2, Withold G. Krzywicki, restaurateur and national treasurer of Polish Union; 9, Dr. W. F. Davison, Medical Director of Luzerne County; 17, Mrs. Minnie Galland, original president of Mothers' Assistance of Luzerne County Leo Barney, trucker . Attorney Carl Burke, prominent Luzerne County Bar member; 18, Thomas Huntley, retired mine official; 20, Dr. H. H. Blase, city merchant; 23, Arthur E. Johnstone, composer and musician; 25, Mary Norris Shoemaker, octogenarian; 27, Bela B. Smith, educator. FEBRUARY 2, Carl Sprow, city patrolman; 4, Dr. Delia P. Weatherby, practicing physician in Wilkes-Barre; 23, George Miller, Pittston, former mail carrier; 28, William Piter, prominent Luzerne resident George K. Brown, former director of Poor Board. MARCH 2, James P. McKeown, secretary Luzerne County Prison Board; 5, John S. Eley, retired theatrical man; 15, Attorney Michael Bohan, practicing lawyer in Luzerne County; 17, Thomas R. Callary, former merchant and publisher; 22, Mrs. Mary W. Hammerly, retired school teacher; 23, Mrs. Allan C. Brooks, wife of Dr. Allan C. Brooks, physician; 25, Harry U. Nyhart, banker and educator; 30, F. E. Park-hurst, insurance firm head. APRIL 9, Harradon S. Smith, consulting engineer and sportsman; 13, Emma Schappert Morris, Concordia and Mozart soloist . . . Rev. Martin D. Dymsza, Duryea priest; 18, Wilbur M. Frantz, business man; 25, Carl C. Klein, undertaker; 27, Olive Moore, secretary YWCA; 30, J. Richmond Merkel, former superintendent of Kingston schools . . . Dorothy Carroll Whit-more, former director of Midvale Settlement. MAY 1, Tuthill R. Hillard, president of Miner Hillard Milling Company; 6, Col. Sterling E. W. Eyer, Ashley native; 8, Benjamin Maxey, druggist; 9, Rev. Lewis Luchi, founder of first Tyrolese Church in America; 13, Miss Elizabeth Morgan, salesman for Lazarus for 54 years; 16, A. P. Diffendaf-er, former superintendent of Nanticoke schools; 27, Henry J. Kropp, superintendent of Hazard Wire Rope Company; 31, Harry Harter, Kingston Township, banker and dairy owner. JUNE 9, Fred Goeringer, Jr., Wilkes-Barre, city treasurer; 11, Dr. Leo C. Mundy, State Senator and Democratic leader; 27, Herman Yeager, manager of Poco-no Manor; 29, Rev. James J. Golden, local priest. JULY 1, Stanley Czajhowski, Hanover Township business man and public official; 2, Lewis S. Reese, Sr., Kingston burgess and former chief of police; 6, Spencer Arnold, real estate broker Dr. Fred Chandler, veterinarian; 8, Priestly Johnson, West Side businessman; 12 Mrs. Mary Evans, aged Ashley resident; 13, Malcolm T. Johnson, Ashley, Reading Railroad supervisor and former Record news staff member; 15, Peter J. Rimmer, president of Wyoming Valley Motor Club; 26, W. L. Pace, attorney Thomas H. James, mine inspector; 27, Thomas P. Thomas, retired mine official. 1945 WILKES-BARRE RECORD ALMANAC 83 AUGUST 1, Rev. Gomer Evans, pastor-emeritus of Bethel Baptist Church; 5, Rev. Raymond Eichmann, pastor of St. Peters Evangelical Lutheran Church; 8, Mrs. Paul Kaiser, Salvation Army worker; 11, Edward Green, general manager of Jernayn Green Coal Company; 19, George B. Hillman, attorney; 26, E. Victor Whiteman, charter member Spanish War Veterans. SEPTEMBER 11, Charles W. Casey, veteran Record printer; 21, Sister Mary Aloysius, St. Mary's Convent; 27, James Mul-hern, former buyer for Boston Store and Nanticoke business man; 28, Joseph Rustic, veteran of Spanish-American War. OCTOBER 4, David Fowler, Boston Store executive; 5, Charles O'Connell, insurance executive; 6, George Olewine, pioneer resident of Hazleton, aged 97; 8, Henry Rosser, Kingston, father of two ministers . . . Rev. J. Kutsky, pastor of St. Peter's & St. Paul's Ukranian Church; 11, Max Seeherman, former local wholesale shoe dealer; 16, J. L. Boughner, executive of J. J. Newberry Company, formerly of Kingston; 23, Joshua Williams, former burgess of Forty Fort; 25, Thomas McHale, mechanical superintendent of Times-Leader-Evening News; 27, J. W. McNelis, merchandise buyer for F. W. Woolworth. NOVEMBER 1, Morgan Bevan, Kingston, Public Utility Commission auditor; 2, David Phillips, West Pittston, mine foreman and choir director; 11, Joseph Apon-ick, Nanticoke, father of Judge John A. Aponick . . . Austin Reilly, Kingston, architect; 12, William H. Ames-bury, Wilkes-Barre, builder . . . Millard F. DeMun, Wilkes-Barre, secretary-treasurer of Boston Store; 24, A. A. Beaumont, Forty Fort, retired mine official.