DEATHS IN LUZERNE COUNTY 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 It is not to be published to any other web site, mailing list, group, etc.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. Among men and women claimed by death from November 30, 1954 to November 30, 1955 DECEMBER, 1954 1. Mrs. Catherine A. Hagan, International Correspondence School official Henry Shapiro, scrap metal merchant 2. Martin B. Finn, former proprietor of Finn Bottling Works John H. Farrell, retired general foreman of Lehigh Valley Coal Company 6. Fred Senese, building contractor. David J. Davis, former owner and operator of Nanticoke Creamery. 7. Parker H. Burt, Wyoming Seminary professor. 13. L. Rufus Koons, paper broker. 14. Sister Mary Andrae. George (Peggy) Gmiter, former baseball pitcher. 15. Edward Paulhamous, former Pittston grocer and coal inspector. 16. Pauline E. Rhone, registered nurse 17. Dr. Frank G. Solenske, dentist 20. Dunham Lamb, former Pittston businessman LeGrande D. Speece, Bell Telephone supervisor 22. John (Busty) VanBuskirk, rock contractor 23. John Yourshin, international auditor of UMWA 24. John Karboski, Sr., Nanticoke politician Lawrence E. Gorge, Slocum Township school director 26. George (Jaracz) Yarrish, hotel operator 27. David Neuman, president of Levy's Bakery Edward M. Jenkins, retired businessman 29. S. Idris Ley, president of Ley accounting service Mrs. Elizabeth Brennan, former acting postmistress of Plymouth Borough Joseph P. McCanna, former acting postmaster of Pittston 30. F. Harold Pringle, former banker 31. Joseph M. Broody, merchant January, 1955 3. Louise Hartman, known in musical circles Frank A. McCarthy, retired district superintendent of Wilkes-Barre schools 6. Enoch H. Thomas, political leader Mrs. Martha M. Lingertot 10. Dr. Gerdon E. Baker, West Side physician 11. Ignatz Berzanski, Sr., hotel operator 12. Anthony J. Gawat, Plymouth merchant Allan P. Stillman, Laceyville businessman 13. Raymond LaRose, veteran painter W. Arthur Wheeler, railroad official Sister M. Julia, Immaculante Heart order Thomas R. Lewis, president of West Eeter Coal Company and Dial Rock Coal Company 14. Thomas A. Baigis, Plymouth businessman 15. Edward J. Williams, West Side coal dealer 16. Howard W. Appleton, former Kingston Township school director 17. Cyrus S. Weiss, prominent figure in civic and fraternal life of Wyoming Valley Mrs. Daisy Pauline Rickard, former school teacher W. Clarence Lee, Ashley justice of the peace and borough auditor 18. Edward M. Harbold, president Forty Fort-Kingston Kiwanis Club 19. Anthony Wideman, butcher shop operator 20. George D. Landmesser, retired Record composing room foreman Thomas E. Williams, former mine official 21. Moritz L. Schultz, former Stegmaier Brewing official 23. Dr. Herbert J. Pierce, dentist 25. Dr. Frederick W. Roberts, surgeon Margaret Quinn, grocery store operator 26. Edward Marten Dunne, Woodlawm Farm executive and former president of Glandale Farms Dairy 27. Mrs. Elizabeth Smoulter Mayock 29. Grace D. Frey, retired city school teacher Tommy O'Toole, former boxing star 30. Dr. Joseph A. Alexis, pediatrician 31. Homer E. Swigert, Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company employe FEBRUARY 1. Herman R. Garringer, former Harveys Lake grocer George S. Schollenberger, former Kingston Borough councilman and fire chief 2. Ella Benedict, retired school teacher 3. George W. Carey, former owner of Kingston Lumber Company 4. Sister M. Antonio, IHM 5. Frank R. Carlson, proprietor of Carlson Sign Company 6. William J. Fahey, athlete 11. John Lloyd, consulting engineer 13. Mrs. Matel Lieberman, civic leader Anna Kearney, retired city school teacher 15. Mrs. Minnie L. Wildoner 17. Herbert R. Vivian, grocer 18. W. Bruce Good, former legislator 19. Mrs. Veronica Lukasavage Chmielewski, cafe proprietor 20. David T. Jenkins, former Edwardsville councilman Gerald O'Neill, former local hotelman 23. Rev. Stanislaus A. Drier, pastor of the Blessed Virgin Mary church, Plymouth James C. Tosh, Sr., Lee Park resident 24. Kenneth J. Guest, Plymouth Borough controller 25. John F. Boyer, Larksville councilman 26. Rabbi Bencel Goldman MARCH 1. William O. Goode, retired bank teller 2. Jerome I. McGlynn, building contractor John M. Stolar, president of Carpenters Union Local 414 4. A. Arthur Dunn, member Wilkes-Barre City School Board Stanley F. Kriefski, former merchant 5. John P. Baiz, dealer in monuments 6. Miss Ella M. Rothermel, retired Wilkes-Barre City school teacher 9. John A. Rigoni, former fruit and newspaper stand operator 11. Mary Hiedix, principal of Jackson Street School, Edwardsville 12. Mary H. Meyer, retired school teacher 16. James Coplan, proprietor of furniture store Clyde Doland, retired superintendent of Lazarus Department Store Joseph A.Yatko, cafe owner 18. Nat Meyer, jewelry store proprietor 23. James Gordon, former mining engineer 24. Samuel H. Chipak, undertaker 25. Vincent J. Kennedy, Jr., UMWA employe 29. George G. Reggie, former Swoyersville councilman William C. Williams, former commander of Wilkes-Barre Post 132, American Legion Faust Iorio, retired Wilkes-Barre policeman APRIL 9. Clement Kaqrnofsky, former city merchant 11. Joseph T. Schinse, former WPA superintendent 12. Thomas A. Mundy, insurance and real estate salesman 13. Clarence E. Dennis 14. Adnah G. Kostenbauder, Plymouth Borough engineer 17. Dr. John Edward Scheifly, eye and ear specialist Peter A. Conlon, coal operator 22. Felix J. Murphy, founder and co-owner of People's Laundry John Zanowicz, Sr., Nanticoke political figure 23. Eugene F. Roan, vice president of Harveys Lake Light Company Dr. John J. Caffrey, eye, ear, nose and throat specialist Dr. Margaret Soreenson Von Schlonbusch, osteopath 24. Namey Davis, former grocer 25. Lavere V. Tallman, Tallman Printing Company 26. Oliver "Dutch" Fraley, fire captain 30. Wilbert M. Taylor, Record copyreader MAY 4. Dr. Paul J. Matusavage, dentist 6. Henry P. Tracy, former Pittston merchant 7. David T. Brown, Sr., former owner of Wyoming Valley Transfer 8. Dr. Eugene M. Kelly James Conlon, Carnegie Hero Medal winner 13. John T. Williams, former Heights grocer Mrs. Elizabeth Strachman, 101 years old 15. Jay S. Lewis, retired merchant 16. Albert Stern, store proprietor Augustus H. Casterline, treasurer of Laurel Run Borough 17. Mrs. Emily Lewin, historian 18. Joseph A. Yanchik, principal of Guthrie School 20. Peter J. Brady, Sr., active in Democratic politics 21. Elizabeth McMurtrie, former principal of Henry Hoyt School Mrs. Alice Heston, etired Pittston teacher 24. Hugh F. Dunbar, baker John H. Reichard, former Forty Fort chief 25. Hyman Jack Lipman, former shoe store owner Rev. Gwladys Aston Atkins, Baptist pastor 27. Andrew Socash, former Exeter school director Edward J. (Steamer) Connors, professional baseball player 30. B. Max Leonard, Back Mountain coal dealer 31. Frank A. Zerfoss, Sr., bank director JUNE 2. William Duff, violinist and Bible student Edward D. Miller, retired PP&L foreman 3. Nora D. Goff, retired school principal, Nanticoke 9. Thomas A. Callahan, president of Laurel Run Borough Council Prof. F. Herman Fritz, former superintendent of Ashley schools and principal of Union Street School, city 10. Mrs. Josephine G. Cohan, insurance broker 13. Leo (Pitkevicz) Adams, Ashley tavern owner Louis C. Jacobs, Hub display manager 14. Mrs. Sarah E. Miller, 101 years old 15. Mrs. Elena Dandini deSylva, former countess 16. William Francis Dobson, certified public accountant 22. Charles Klemek, hotel owner Salvatore Petrilli, barber shop operator JULY 9. S.A. Hoover, musician 10. William Luckenbach, former cashier and trust officer of Dime Bank 11. H. Eugene Cameron, former burgess and councilman of Kingston Borough 12. Peter C. Gorman, former jury commissioner 13. Rev. Ivan L. Snyder, retired Methodist minister 14. Mrs. Ida Pettebone Miller 16. Perry B. Evans, former Nanticoke assistant postmaster William C. Keiber, former president of United Asociations of Railroad Veterans 17. Mrs. Frank J. Dougher William J. Grork 21. John B. Kreshock, retired school principal, Plains Township 22. J. Lear Wagner, suditor for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 24. John T. McAndrew, retired assistant superintenden of Prudential Insurance Company 25. Alexander Pierzykowski, operator of Plymouth Tavern 26. Nell Murphy, World War 1 nurse 29. Mrs. Marion N. Delaney 31. Solomon D. MacKeeby, former owner of MacKeeby Coal and Ice Company AUGUST 1. Ambrose Rutz, owner of Ambrose Beauty Salon 4. Charles F. Whitemire, former councilman and chief of the Volunteer Fire Department in Ashley Borough Julia E. Davis 5. State Senator Patrick J. Toole 7. Joseph J. Marrone, known in music circles 8. Issac Evans, clerk in County Controller's office 10. Hugh Thomas, president of the Fraternal Order of Police William Rickard, former chief of police of Ashley 11. Laura Jane Sprague, former teacher at Wyoming Seminary 12. Martin J. Mulhall, a member of Luzerne County Bar Association for 60 years 13. Mrs. Sarah Rutz 15. Sister Mary Barron, Sisters of Mercy Rev. Dr. Minot C. Morgan, retired Presbyterian minister 18. William J. Donlin, founder of Donlin's Pennsylvanians and music teacher Rose Jacobosky, retired Wilkes-Barre City school teacher 21. Thomas G. Kochuba, former Wilkes-Barre Township tax collector Sister Mary Dionysia Campbell, RSM, 67 years a member of the Sisters of Mercy 22. William M. Williams, former electrical firm owner Mrs. Anna Shephard Copp, Trucksville, meningitis patient at Communicable Disease Hospital 24. Pierce B. Reynolds, industrial executive 26. Teddy Manos, operator of Master Restaurant Robert L. Birtley, coal operator 27. Mrs. Mary Vitek, mother of two nuns 28. Frank L. Riley, retired mine foreman 29. John A. McGroarty, Luzerne 30. William White, Sr., retired rock contractor 31. Elizabeth Dooley, school teacher Mrs. Martin B. Toole SEPTEMBER 2. Edward F. (Ned) McGroarty, former baseball player 4. Harry S. Twarowski, vice president and cashier of Miners National Bank, Nanticoke Mrs. John C. Shmidt, mother of Rev. Francis A. Schmidt, director of St. Michael's Industrial School Sante Fiorucci, Sugar Notch hotel owner Kostek (Lefty) Kriefski, former baseball pitcher 6. Benny Son, familiar "Shoeshine Man" around Wilkes-Barre 7. Dr. William C. Owens, professor of English at King's College George A. Beiswinger general superintendent W.H. Nicholson Company Rev. George Inczura, pastor of St. Mary's Annunciation Lithuanian Roman Catholic Church, Kingston 8. Howell Samuel, Hazle Avenue merchant Charles E. Updyke, father of three local ministers John J. McManus, former local lawyer 11. Sister M. Theopane Thomas S. Burrows. Sr., former officer of Moose 12. John M. Sabol, official UMWA 13. Grant C. Tallman, printer for 76 years Thomas Dobbie, commander of Camp 17, USWV 14. William Miller, Kingston borough policeman Mother M. Marcella, RSM, formerly of Parsons 18. Llewellyn Edmunds, guidance director of Nanticoke schools Joseph J. Gale, Sr., former mine official 19. Mrs. Elizabeth Easton, retired school principal at kingston Robert B. Hislop, founder of Dallas Rotary Club 20. Mrs. Edith Cope, Schickshinny, who left 91 descendents 22. Samuel Kress, formerly of Nanticoke, chain store magnate, art patron and philanthropist John F. Kosik, International organizer for UMWA L.R. Schechtlerly, Nescopeck tax collector 24. Joseph J. Coyne, retired assistant superintendent of Prudential Life Insurance Company 25. Ann Callahan, retired registered nurse Attorney Albert L. Anselmi, solicitor of Wyoming Borough 29. Fred J. Banta, former Burgess of Luzerne Mrs. Jessie Brittingham Knelly, former Wilkes-Barre school teacher OCTOBER 1. John Adamchak, state policeman 2. Mrs. Kathryn Pulson, former Wilkes-Barre Record correspondent Harry E. Lehr, mining engineer for Hudson Coal Company Iona L. Evans, Dallas Township school teacher 3. Lucius K. Eldridge, Wilkes-Barre city clerk since 1938 Joseph L. Daley, retired foreman of Wilkes-Barre Record composing room Edward J. Reap, founder and president of Wilkes-Barre Electrical Construction Company 4. Bessie Kearney, retired school teacher 6. William Samuel Divine, printer 7. Mrs. Anne H. Rowe, graduate nurse 8. Rev. Daisy Eggleston, local WCTU leader 11. Max Weisberger, city merchant George Prutzman, Spanish-American War veteran 12. Rev. William Coleman Nevils, SJ., first Jesuit president of University of Scranton 14. George Edward Dean, president of Wyoming Valley Beef Company 15. William G. Downs, Sr., coal dealer 16. Jenkin Lake, retired Sunday School teacher Harry W. Johnson, Black Diamond train pioneer 18. Horace G. Cook, former local architect William F. Merrick, Hawaiian high school teacher, formerly of Plains 19. Asher Noll, printer for Wilkes-Barre Record Mrs. Agnes Roat, 97-year-old Kingston rsident 20. Jesse Amdt, retired druggist 23. Robert B. Eshelman, former West Pittstonian 24. George S. Youhon, Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company, printer Steve J. Podskoch, headkeeper at Luzerne County Prison for 23 years Mrs. Georgia Mosier Snowdon, wife of funeral director William Snowdon 26. Charles Baron, retired Plymouth department store owner 27. Rev. William Morgan Lewis, Larksville native, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, West Palm Beach, Fla. 28. Dr. Patrick A. McLaughlinm medical practitioner for 47years Harry J. Ahlbrandt, city tax office clerk 30. Thomas Halsey, Forty Fort Borough engineer NOVEMBER 1. Rabbi Myron Weingarten, spiritual leader of Temple B'nai B'rith 3. Dr. Thaddeus Knoll, Pittston dentist John F. O'Donnell, former supervising principal of Foster Township schools 5. Dr. Charles H. Ernst, practicing physician in Wyoming Valley for more than 50 years 6. John C. Hendler, hotel proprietor Israel Aberhouse, Hebrew scholar 7. William Morris, conductor on Lehigh Valley Railroad's John Wilkes passenger train 8. James Ayre, retired Wilkes-Barre city school principal Leo Flanagan, Luxerne County deputy sheriff 10. Shadrach Dodd, former mine official 13. Grace D. O'Malley, retired principal of Pittston Township High School 16. Edward Pappas, former Wilkes-Barrean and father of Baltimore quadruplets 17. Capt. Albert L. Flick, State Police commander Mrs. May C. Bennetto, church worker John Palanske, Sr., father of Actor Jack Palance 20. David Alper, Syracuse, N.Y. merchant, formerly of Wilkes-Barre 21. Sister Mary Sebastian Coyle, member of the Sisters of Mercy Order for 61 years John Vincent, former Nanticoke school board member 22. Joseph S. Rice, former world champion skater and bicyclist, fatally injured by truck 23. Elmer C. Wirsing, retired Vulcan Iron Works official 24. Daniel J. Morgan, local singer H.T. Kuschke, retired Plymouth businessman 28. Dominick C.C.Ortolani, prominent in mine union and Plains Twp. civic affairs 29. Mrs. Ida Trethway, retired official of Popmeroy's Dept. Store Tudor F. Grifiths, former auditor, councilman and burgess of Parsons Grant Caldwallader, etired oficial of Vulcan Iron Works 30. Theodore Roosevelt Cragle, owner of Garden Drive-In Theater Dr. A. Edward Heath, Philadelphia dentist, formerly of Wilkes-Barre Jacob S. Yencha, director of sports and athletics of Slovak Catholic Sokols George G. Brader, former banker John B. McGreevy, retired city patrolman James F. Kelly, district manager of the Home Life Insurance Company, Pittston District Typed by Janie Symons, May 2004