WILKES-BARRE RECORD ALMANAC 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 It is not to be published to any other web site, mailing list, group, etc.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, 1956 to November 30, 1957: DECEMBER, 1956 1. H. Owen Roberts, local merchant Dr. John Funke, former Ashley resident 2. Thomas Fee, Pittston resident 3. Joseph Feldman, former Plains High School football coach Leroy Reese, Forty Fort 4. John A. Riley, Democratic political leader 5. John )Rozy) Kraftician, former Edwardsville Councilman 6. James Mullen, Avoca, former major league baseball player O. Elmer Peterson, sales manager for Deemer and Company, Wilkes-Barre 7. Jacob Silverstein, decorator Mrs. Martin McEnrue, Pringle 9. William A. Davis, former Nanticoke councilman 10. Eugene E. Harvey, former Huntington Township school director 11. Russell A. Yeager, Albert 12. Fred L. Wagner, Plymouth druggist James B. Robinson, insurance broker 14. Rev. John J. O'Neil 16. John T. McGraw, Central Railroad of New Jersey foreman 17. Mrs. Edgar Prophet, secretary and librarian of Luzerne County Medical Society Frederick P. Stegmaier 20. Patrick Fisher, Edwardsville Joseph D. Morgan, Nanticoke druggist John Allen, retired Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company printer 21. Sister M. Leo, RSM 22. Emily S. Johnson, West Pittston 24. Mrs. Mary Wartella, Edwardsville Albert Cadwalder, engineer James C. Langdon, Commercial Gas Company office manager 25. George Houck, retired principal of Wilkes-Barre schools 26. Thomas M. Martin, former Kingston Coal Company official 27. Abelino Rodriguez, local chef 28. Mrs. Myrtle Morgan, Kingston Carl A. Richards, Coughlin High School teacher 29. Paul McNelis, Hazleton, executive secretary of Anthracite Health and Welfare Fund 30. Martin J. Finnerty, former Pringle Borough official John Fiesler, retired Wilkes-Barre policeman 29. George Esseff, St. Anthony's Maronite Church sexton (Printed as it was in Almanac) JANUARY, 1957 1. Wheeler Gottshall, retired hotel proprietor Mrs. Dana Edwards, Dallas 2. John J. Tomek, retired State Police captain Attorney William N. Reynolds 3. Joseph F. Perugino 4. Russell Zimmerman, safety supervisor for United Gas Improvement Company 5. Richard J. Walsh, former Kingston councilman David Mackie, retired mine foreman 6. William A. Reutelhuber, former Lehigh Valley Coal Company superintendent Mrs. Louis Palmer, former Forty Fort School teacher Paul Hoy Helms 7. Mrs. Lillian B. Zeldenrust, Kingston Frank W. Wisneski, Edwardsville bakery founder 10. William E. Wallace, Avoca Clarence Shaver, former boat captain at Harveys Lake 11. Mary L. Connolly, retired Ashley school teacher Charles J. Bauer, Deleware and Hudson Railroad conductor 13. Enrico Elleni, retired West Pittston merchant Hyman Kranson, retired Wilkes-Barre merchant Carl M. Schmitt, Kingston contractor Robert J. Smalley Arthur W. Kushke, president of F.E. Parkhurst, Incorporated 16. Charles E. Kelley, Larksville, inventor Mrs. Mary Richardson, Pittston John T. McNelis, railroad conductor 17. Michael Evan, Plymouth merchant John J. P. Dunn, former administrator for WPA in Luzerne County Anthony Antinnes, merchant 19. Mrs. Arch W. Baird, Harding 21. David B. Koenig, chief clerk for Pennsylvania Power and Light Company 22. Oscar (Bud) Behee, retired operator of Behee Transfer Company 23. Rev. John P. Kameen, formerly of Wyoming Rev. Joseph C. Neary, formerly of Pittston Township 24. Fred O. Lauer, former Kingston councilman Edward Cronin, cartoonist, formerly of Kingston 26. J. William Wall, former vice-president of Citizens Bank of Parsons 27. Mrs. Nan Craig, West Pittston William J. Kromelbein, former president of Central Labor Union 28. John L. James, Mount Zion Edward F. Houser, retired yardmaster at Coxton 30. Sister M. Urban, Mountaintop native Dr. Ernest J. Neumuller, Wilkes-Barre dentist 31. Sister Agnes Mary, native of Wilkes-Barre James Ernst, Kingston, one of the original members of the State Police FEBRUARY 1. John Gardzella, Plymouth 2. Leon Wazeter, former Polish newspaper editor and publisher Charles A. Ashman, retired Pennsylvania Railroad conductor 3. Edward E. Find, Wilkes-Barre 4. Edward A. Delaney, Plains Mrs. Fred Andrews, owner of Andrews Trucking Company, Nanticoke 8. Raymond H. Lacey, educator Rev. Peter Curran, Nanticoke native Zack H. Keller, former Luzerne Borough school member Dr. Ruth M. Young, formerly of Buttonwood George C. Ayers, Hudson, preacher 10. Sister Mary Vincent DePaul, RSM 11. Gilbert C. Smith, former Benton school director 12. Harry Aerenson, father of Wilkes-Barre City Councilman Mrs. Ethel Price 13. Mrs. Marcella Andruscavage, 104 years-old-woman, Plymouth 15. Monsignor Patrick J. Boland, Scranton, former pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church, Pittston 17. Mrs. Mary Cool, Lee Park Charles A. Revitt, Wilkes-Barre Township constable 18. Attorney Philip M. Gorgold 20. Attorney Paul Reap Bohan, Pittston native 21. Albert Morris, former president of Peoples Gas Company, Pittston Michael E. O'Donoghue, associate professor of biology at King's College 22. Dr. Mary B. Harris, former superintendent of women's penal institutions 23. Samuel Frankel, former merchant 24. Samuel Rubin, tailor and furrier Samuel G. Jayne, South Wilkes-Barre merchant 25. Joseph M. Teitelbaum, former Nanticoke merchant 26. Frank Stutz, former West Pittston Police officer 27. Charles J. Kilpatrick, retired funeral director William A. Reinert, electrical engineer 28. Dr. M. Clark Johnson, Kingston MARCH 1. Allan Laird, Avoca merchant and bank director Sol Rosenbaum, Wilkes-Barre-Pittston district manager for Consolidated Cigar Company 2. Frank E. Baldwin, Kingston electrical contractor 3. James J. Hannon, Hudson yardmaster of Deleware and Hudson Railroad Michael F. McGinley, Lehigh Valley Coal Company purchasing agent Sister M. Paduea, Pittston native 5. Elmer E. Edwards, former Wilkes-Barre school board member 6. Rachel W. Pratt, retired Nanticoke school teacher 7. Joseph Conrad, Lackawanna County Commissioner and former Scranton postmaster 8. Walter S. Barrett, former Pittston businessman and painting contractor 9. William A. Hancock, former Plains school teacher Thomas J. Elward, West Pittston 12. Fred C. Price, Ashley optometrist 13. George Rekus, funeral director Joseph Swank, retired Hanover Township school teacher 14. John Sutter, farmer 18. Jacob Laux, Back Mountain manufacturer Mrs. Anna Boland O'Mailey, widow of Dr. A.W. O'Malley 20. John A. Martin, former Pittston councilman Walter L. Caffey, retired Kingston insurance agent 22. Mrs. William McGroarty, East End Mrs. Mary Damon Courtright, Kingston Mrs. Cora Hittinger Maier, White Haven 23. Benedict C. Drelick, General Hospital purchasing agent 27. Miss Isabella McGuigan, retired Wilkes-Barre school teacher 28. Sister Mary Hiarian, social worker 30. Clemence Block, insurance firm founder Mrs. Grace Ellsworth, Kingston 31. Michael Marko, North Wilkes-Barre tavern operator Mrs. Theresa S. Hawkins, head nurse of the medical section at Veterans Administration Hospital APRIL 1. Paul P. Kostenbauder, owner of Smith Engineering Company, Wilkes-Barre 2. John J. Biely, Swoyersville Paul Sindaco, retired Plains coal operator Rita Brunges, Wilkes-Barre Record correspondent at Tunkhannock Mrs. Eva J. Williams, retired school teacher 5. Leo O'Haire, Pittston City chief assessor 7. Austin C. Bisbing, sexton at Kingston Methodist Church 8. William J. Davey, retired post office employe 11. Rev. James F. Nolan, former pastor of St. Charles Church, Sugar Notch August Barbini, retired mail carrier 12. Mrs. Etta Richmond, Ashley G. Raymond Goodwin, retired Wilkes-Barre Record newsman 14. Howard L. West, Sr., vice president of B.G. Coon Construction Company 16. Rev. James E. Gryczka, pastor of St. Hedwig's Church, Kingston Dr. Glace E. Bittenbender, native of Nescopeck Paul M. Burke, Scranton theater manager, Wilkes-Barre native 17. Benjamin F. Conner, Wilkes-Barre native 18. Dr. Franklin L. Fine Dominick Pasquini, owner of cement block firm in Wilkes-Barre 19. Walter Young, New York, former director of Little Theatre Jacob W. Engel, retired jeweler 25. Blazey Lagosz, Nanticoke hotel owner 26. Joseph Lispi, Plains Township coal operator 27. John H. Line, manager of Wilkes-Barre office of the Holland Furnance Company 29. Joseph Metcalf, retired Nanticoke businessman Edward Clinton McAdams, former telegraph editor of Wilkes-Barre Record William McGroarty, retired Wilkes-Barre City fireman 30. Henry Walser, Hazleton newspaper publisher William Evans, former transit corporation superintendent Charles H. Bowman, West Pittston MAY 1. Miss Lucy U. Padagomas, Glen Lyon school teacher Dr. John J. Sosnowski, Nanticoke native 2. Joseph P. Fahey, Inkerman pharmacist 3. Mrs. Ellen Davis, Warrior Run Annette K. Friel, Wilkes-Barre school teacher Miss B. Theresa Sweeney, retired Hanover Townhip school teacher 4. John MacAdam, former Kingston councilman 5. Louis Diamond, Nanticoke businessman Gregory Herman, former Wilkes-Barre school teacher 6. Mrs. May Boyes Freeman, Plymouth 7. Edward McGinley, Kingston, used car lot manager 8. Charles Rowe, former Plymouth Borough engineer 10. Joseph George, Wilkes-Barre furniture store owner 11. Walter Covert, former Kingston fire chief Linn B. Sherwood, former Wyoming County treasurer 12. Winifred C. King, retired Avoca school teacher Joseph Mackiewicz, West Nanticoke merchant Mrs. Anna Novroth, 104 year-old Nanticoke resident 13. Mrs. Ida A. Whitesell, Hunlock Creek 14. Andrew Lavix, retired Wilkes-Barre police sergeant 15. Joseph V. Mather, United States Bureau of Mines engineer 16. Thomas O. Edwards, Kingston 17. Charles E. Daubert, retired Miner Hillard Company miller 21. Mrs. Joseph Helfrich, former Ashley School teacher 22. Thomas Moore, Park Avenue merchant 24. Thomas J. Keirle, former Edwardsville police chief 26. Mrs. Jennie Nichols, West Pittston Samuel J. Harrison, Kingston 27. Charles Dunn, Swoyersville Dean Miller, teacher, Pittston native Miss B. Ann Conroy, retired nurse, Nanticoke Richard F. Grant, former president of Lehigh Valley Coal Company and 1926 strike negotiator 28. Louis Hitchler, Oxford, Pa. newspaper publisher, formerly of Wilkes-Barre 29. Dr. Samuel Wolk, former rabbi of Temple B'Nai B'Rith, Wilkes-Barre Charles Nordstrom, Wilkes-Barre building contractor Herman Mailander, retired Wilkes-Barre building contractor 30. John M. Kennedy, retired Newport Township school teacher MissBesse M. Wentzel, retired Wilkes-Barre schools art supervisor 31. Anthony L. Beeunas, Jr., New York teacher, Wanamie native JUNE 1. Jacob Lisman, local funeral director 2. Hubert A. Stonier, Tunkhannock, Wyoming County treasurer 4. Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Davis, West Nanticoke Frank J. Besecker, Kingston Thomas A. Dennis, retired Wilkes-Barre fire captain 5. Dean H. Phipps, retail stores chain founder and owner 6. George Williams, veteran newspaperman 7. David S. Speizman, former silk mill operator Carrie M. Wolfe, former tobacco union president 8. Carl G. Bohn, North Wilkes-Barre 9. Harold T. Manchester, Wilkes-Barre food broker William G. Jenkins, former principal and dean of Wilkes_barre Busness College 10. Robert W. McDonough, Wyoming Valley Red Cross Blood recruit director Mrs. Catherine Lenahan, West Ashley 11. Owen Williams, Sr., Plymouth merchant 12. Msgr. John J. Federowicz, pastor of St. Mary's Church, Nanticoke Benjamin Cohen, Wilkes-Barre school director Mrs. Bertha Allen, retired Kingston High School teacher Dr. Harry Brown, Lehman 14. Robert E. Jones, vice president of Kingston Branch of Second National Bank of Wilkes-Barre Mrs. Theresa Kondratick, 100-year-old Miners Mills resident 15. Rev. Anthony Repella, pastor of St. John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Church, Edwardsville 16. William J. Donnelly, assistant manager of Bond Stores Llewellyn G. Swetland, former wholesale grocery office manager Sister Mary Felicita Morrissey, RSM John O'Donnell, former Duryea policeman 17. Reese Thomas, Courtdale school board president Jesse Miller, retired Wilkes-Barre fireman 18. Mrs. Mary E. West, Ashley Mrs. CatherineL. Aston, mother of Luzerne County District Attorney Kathryn Delaney, retired Newport Township school teacher Mrs. Anna Finn, owner of Finn Bottling Company 19. Fred J. Mack, architect Rev. Edward A. Martin, Methodist minister 20. Frank G. Merritt, Plains merchant 22. Verncel R. Crisman, Berwick bank president 23. Arthur J. Hudson, Plains merchant Max Rubel, Wilkes-Barre merchant Barney Madrak, former director of Duryea schools 24. Mrs. Patrick McMo0nagle, Hanover Township 25. Jane Dougherty, former Exeter Borough school teacher 26. William J. Thomas, Hanover Township 27. Milton Williams, Heights resident Rev. Samuel Nichols, retired Primitive Methodist minister 28. Michael A. Faduska, coal and ice dealer at Bear Creek 29. Justin Sadausdas, Pittston merchant Stanley J. Barber, retired Ashley postal official Frank Tubbs, former Nanticoke funeral director JULY 1. Albert L. Roderick, Hunlock Township auditor Mrs. Mabel MacMilen, West Pittston 4. Elizabeth Koch, West Pittston school teacher 5. William Conaughton, former theater manager 6. Miles J. Frey, forty Fort, retired contractor 7. Dr. William H. Quay, Wilkes-Barre George F. Jones, former United Gas Improvement Company official 9. Walter F. Letanski, Heights merchant Henry Kemmerer, retired stone contractor Walter Ketchen, retired building contractor William Airey, Wilkes-Barre 10. Maj. Edmund Camp, former Wilkes-Barre assistant postmaster LeRoy Morris, Trucksville 12. Lazarus Rothstwin, former wholesale grocery company owner Edgar Clark, former Wyoming school teacher 14. Judson Allen, Laurel Run Edward H. Adrian, former Pittston school teacher Ex-judge Michael F. McDonald 15. Cornelius J. Gallagher, former Luzerne County commissioner Martin A. Kuehn, interior decorator 16. Mrs. Leon Wazeter, Sr., 19. Mrs. Edith Plumb, widow of Attorney Henry B. Plumb 21. Martin Kelly, former Edwardsville councilman Mrs. Helen Hudson, Children's Guidance Center teacher Mrs. Emma Hooper, Plains 22. W.S. Johnson, former American Car and Foundry superintendent Thomas Gill, retired merchant 24. Charles R. Reese, retired postal inspector 26. Raymond E. Kuhnert, Dallas, educator 28. Dr. Hobert W. Dodson, retired Nanticoke physician Oswald Moore, former insurance and furniture businessman 29. Charles A. Ruane, Pittston 30. Mrs. Flora Wilcox, Nanticoke 31. Miss Kate Lavin, Hanover Township school librarian AUGUST 1. Robert Taylor, printer Alice Reynolds, former Swoyersville school teacher 2. Mrs. Maude C. Marsh William Royer, insurance company owner 3. Sylvester M. Gillespie, octogenarian Oscar E. Schobert, former West Pittston councilman John Cannon, Wilkes-Barre merchant 4. Andrew J. Mago, Ashley merchant 5. Edward Jones, former dairy operator 6. Anna H. Shubert, Plains funeral director 8. John J. Hanahan, Wilkes-Barre Township commissioner Josephine M. Walsh, Wilkes-Barre Grace Murrin, Wilkes-Barre 9. John E. Piatt, Wyoming Borough educator Mrs. Marjorie Fagan, Plains 11. William Rifkin, Wilkes-Barre 13. Mrs. Alice Sauerwine, former Wilkes-Barre school teacher Mrs. Barbara Updike, Sweet Valley 15. Otis A. Rood, former Kingston Township school teacher 16. James J. Jennings Harry L. Ohlman Mrs. Theresa Janosov, Hazleton Warren Harned, f ormer Wilkes-Barre Baron baseball player 19. Mrs. Dellaooke Parrish, Idetown Albert Williams, Trucksville 20. Edward N. Barber, Trucksville 21. Frank J. Shannon, Nanticoke educator 22. Stephen Uffalussy, printer Rev. A.F. Birdsall, Schickshinny Mrs. Mary Cave, Dallas William R. Boyd, Wyoming Borough treasurer 23. Abe Naveen, Heights merchant 24. Robert G. Nesbitt, Kingston 25. George M. Sherba, Wilkes-Barre Wasil Sakalosh, Glen Lyon 26. Cornelius Cannon, Buttonwood Clarence Fine, Plymouth 27. Nathan Williams, retired wholesale grocer Michael Gallagher, former president of Pennsylvania Coal Company 28. George J. Durbin, retired Plymouth druggist Harry J.Richards, Kingston Lyman E. Taylor, Forty Fort 30. Mrs. Margaret Hefferman, Larksville 31. Forrest A. Boyd, Lilly Lake Walter Greskiewcz, Wyoming merchant SEPTEMBER 1. Andrew A. Nalbach, owner of Lake Silkworth Hotel 2. Michael Bosack, former assistant chief of police of Plymouth 3. Samuel H. Marshman, founder of Marshman Laundry John O. Repa, Kingston 5. Metro Fetkin, Pringle 6. Dr. Margaret Reiley John Galvin, retired theater manager 7. Mrs. Edith Jenkins, Ashley 8. Mrs. Sarah Rothstein, Heights 9. William V. Thomas, former Forty Fort Councilman Thoams T. McCarthy, retired supervising principal of Plymouth Township schools 10. Raymond B. Wall, Sr., 12. Louis J. Purvin, Wilkes-Barre 13. Mrs. Ellen J. Moran, Lee Park Wallace V. Frantz, Wilkes-Barre building contractor Sister Mary Joseph, RSM Miss Elizabeth Dougher, Avoca, retired school teacher and principal 14. Elizabeth Battle, Pittston educator 15. Philip A. Pettinato, vice president of Pagnotti Enterprises 16. Roger J. Howell, Kingston, former Luzerne County jury commissioner Jacob E. Griesmer, Dallas Mrs. Alice F. Gilroy, West Pittston Owen J. Owens, sexton at First Reformed Church 17. John Schuster, Parsons Mrs. John Hoffman, Wilkes-Barre, former president of A.O.H. Gertrude Hughes, Plymouth, Luzerne County tax clerk 18. Bertha H. Butts, deaconess Mrs. Martha Wich, Kingston 19. Rev. F. A. Lendrum, Wilkes-Barre native, retired Methodist minister George W. Harrison, Warrior Run, retired trainmaster 20. Dorothy K. Worth, Kingston, proprietor of candy company 21. Hannah Bird 22. John McNevin, Pittston Thomas Bradshaw, mail-handler for Jersey Central Railroad Richard Sunday, Forty Fort, football fatality 23. Herbert E. Atkins, Tunkhannock, founder and former owner of Craftsmen Engravers, W-B William Ritter, Schickshinny, former superintendent of Stackhouse Coal Company Lt. Col. Eli Bruce Rosser, retired army officer and former Kingston dentist 24. Ariel Price, Forty Fort 25. Samuel Epstine, wholesale produce merchant Louis Moore, retired chief cook for Wilkes-Barre division of Lehigh Valley Railroad Walter Phillips, Kingston 26. Raymond Swingle, West Wyoming police chief Evan T. Whildrin, city 27. Stanley B. Davies, Dallas, president of the Royer Foundry and Machine Company of Kingston 28. Anthony Sabanski, Plymouth, sole survivor of an explosion at the Lance Colliery on February 8, 1916 29. Mrs. Howard Patton, Forty Fort, former superintendent of Luzerne County Sabbath School Association 30. Leo E. Golden, Pittston, Lehigh Valley Railroad conductor Albert W. Litzenberger, city Mrs. Mary W. Miller, employed at Hotel Sterling OCTOBER 1. Rev. J.J. Endler, CP, Scranton, founder of novena to St. Ann in Scranton Mrs. Maude Morris, Sweet Valley, former Ross Township teacher Lee H. Peters, Lancaster, former Hollenback Township School director 2. David E. Harris, city, Glen Alden clerk 3. Mrs. Mary Jabers, Wilkes-Barre Mrs. Annie Humphrey, Plymouth 4. Samuel Llewellyn, city, retired mail foreman C.P. Stewart, Forty Fort, retired coal company official 5. George H. Moon, Nanticoke park commissioner Mrs. George Warner, Kingston 6. Ernest G. Caswell, chief fireman at Stanton Colliery 7. Attorney Francis E. Gibbons, Washington, D.C., former Wilkes-Barre resident Mrs. Anna Litwak, Kingston, mother of priest 8. Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, Pittston, former Pittston City clerk Stephen G. Demko, Edwardsville, international representative for Journeymen Barbers' Union Rev. Edward L. Lulewicz, Pittston 9. Daisy Mae Ransom, Jackson Township 10. John H. James, Edwardsville, employed by the U.S. Engineers in New England Division Mrs. Alice Herron, Avoca 11. Rev. William Gendall, city, retired supply pastor of Salem United Brethren Church Rev. Dr. James Rauch Stein, Harrisburg, retired minister of the First Evangelical and Reformed Church, city Joseph R. Klein, former president of Local 164, Amalgamated Association of Railway and Motor Coach Employes of America 12. M.M. Howell, Forty Fort Mrs. Olwen Sowden, Wilkes-Barre 13. Christian Gersteneker, Scranton, supply pastor of local Methodist churches 14. Dennis J. O'Brien, Warrior Run official 15. Mrs. John L. McMahon, mother of priest Judd Miller Fitze, Tunkhannock businessman 16. Maj. W.A. Clark, Wyoming, an original member of State Police Michael Reap, Dunmore, retired head of local Veterans Administration 17. P.J. McDonald, retired railroader 18. John Steve, former Hanover Township tax collector Mrs. Anna Albrecht, Harding, minister's wife Robert K. Garrett, Pomeroy office employe 19. J.H. Lutz, Allentown druggist, formerly of Pittston Rev. Andrew Klobusicky, Swoyersville 20. Herbert Jacobs, city school teacher 22. Mrs. Emma Jane Anderson, Yunkhannock Mrs. Ursula Tunaitis, city, operator of Severa Farms near Benton 23. William M. Goss, former Berwick funeral director John J. Pambianco, Plains grocer 24. Mrs. Stella Aponick, mother of Judge John J. Aponick Mrs. Ida Traher, Nanticoke, Gold Star mother 26. Mrs. Christina F. Malkemes, Shavertown JosephMatukatis, Korn Krest 27. Peter Kennedy, city, Teamsters' Union steward George Winders, Schickshinny 28. Rev. joseph A. Mroziewski, Sugar Notch native William L. Cairns, Clarks Summit, retired general manager of Laurel Line 29. Andrew A. Blannerd, Luzerne, general contractor William F. Hessel, Wilkes-Barre native Rev. Dr. Clarence R. Hickok, Plymouth native 30. Ben Verbinski, Kingston William P. Thacher, city, railroad conductor Leonard Maslowski, Plymouth funeral director 31. Anthony H. Klein, city, retired building contractor Bernard E. Piorkowski, Wyoming, president of Luzerne County Board of School Directors NOVEMBER 1. Edwin M. Tripp, Forty Fort Charles Kingeter, city cafe owner James Ralston, Dallas, retired American Stores Company official 2. Mrs. Mary P. Dennis, city, civic and religous leader Frank M. Shifka, Nanticoke, district board member of United Mine Workers of America Isidor Kluger, Wyoming merchant 3. Mrs. Constance Sosnowski, Ashley William G. Eyerman, city, retired painter 4. Mrs. Edith Coon, Kingston, contractor's widow Frd K. Lewis, Lee Park, proprieter of the Wilkes-Barre Printing Company 5. George F. Spencer, Avoca, retired railroad engineer 6. Margaret L. Snyder, former Exeter Township school nurse 7. John R. Davies, city, former gardener at courthouse Mrs. Emma Willard Ide, Idetown 8. Mrs. Mary Nolan, Wilkes-Barre native F. Button Palmer, Forty Fort, retired building superintendent of YMCA 9. William T. Kelley, city, former Larksville borough official 10. Max Lottman, Kingston, former owner of Paris Shop, city Wayne Newman, city 11. John Turchetti, Wyoming, president of the Wyoming Cooperative Association Thomas J. Fahey, Kingston, semi-professional baseball player at turn of century 12. Mrs. Martha E. Hourigan, Kingston, widow of Joseph B. Hourigan, sales manager of Penn Tobacco Company Mrs. Jeanette Umberger Walter, Wyoming, retired Wilkes-Barre City school teacher 13. Sister Mary Nepomucene, Scranton, former teacher at Marymount H.S. Simon Shapiro, Scranton, former Wilkes-Barre businessman 14. Michael Castellani, Swoyersville, organizer of Swoyersville Hose Company No.2 Frank Kopicki, Plains funeral director 15. Mrs. Lydia Mucha, Kingston 16. John R. hughes, Kingston, founder of Acme Monument Company, Forty Fort Benjamin T. Jones, city, retired auperintendent of safety for Hudson Coal Company 17. William J. Purcell, McAdoo, retired P & R Railroad engineer Nicholas Csop, Plymouth, cemetery caretaker 18. Martha Jean Dodson, Muhlenberg native 19. Jacob E. Speicher, city, retired contractor 20. Mrs. Margaret K. Balliet, postmistress at Alden 21. Oscar H. Shank, Mountaintop, stationary engineer at Huber Colliery Mrs. Annie Hoover, West Nanticoke 22. John A. Grontkowski, Nanticoke undertaker William J. Savage, Pringle 23. Joseph Metzger, city, mechanic John Warnesky, city 24. John Disque, city, retired lace weaver 25. Rev. James L. Harley, Wilkes-Barre native Robert F. Waters, Nanticoke, veteran of three wars Allan W. Brown, Schickshinny banker 26. William E. Weaver, Plymouth Ignatz Barr, Askam 27. William C. Amos, city, former New York State legislator 28. Walter A. Richards, Kingston, former Kingston councilman Mrs. Jennie Green, Lee Park 29. Frolindo F. Spadi, supervising principal of Jenkins Township-Yatesville Borough Joint School District Mrs. Jessie Perkins, Plymouth native 30. Mrs. Anna Adams, Nanticoke John Usdavin, Plains Typed by Janie Symons. June 2004