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 It is not to be published to any other web site, mailing list, group, etc.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 Novmber 30, 1957 to November 30, 1958: DECEMBER, 1957 1. Warren W. Webb, Kingston musician; Joseph A. Lupco, city, tax consultant. 2. Joseph Troyan, Swoyersville, coal operator. 3. Alexander Tough, Lehman, retired farm manager; David Davies, Plymouth, World War I veteran. 4. Eugene Bierly, Harding; Daniel W. Brown, Mountaintop, former parking lot operator. 5. Michael Butry, city, retired railroader; Mrs. Mary Trusa, Larksville. 6. William Linker, city. 7. Mrs. Sarah Rollins, city, charter member of Bethel AME Church; George C. Edwards, city, retried postal worker. 8. Mrs. Esther Finkelstein, Kingston, charter member of Temple Israel Synagog; Harry W. Searfoss, city, retired brewery worker. 9. John K. Weigand, city, insurance agent; Stanley F. Fela, West Nanticoke, founder of Kestone Magazine Corporation. 10. Victor Nowitski, Kingston. 11. Samuel P. Thomas, retired Wilkes-Barre Fireman; Michael J. Dunn, Pittston, retired postal worker.12. A. A. Holbrook, East Stroudsburg, former publisher of the Morning Times, predecessor of “Times-Leader, The Evening News”; George F. Flosser, city, retired captain of Wilkes-Barre Fire Department. 13. Dr. Anthony F. Gorhan, Camden, N. J., Ashley native; Jerome Kulesa, Nanticoke, grocery store operator. 14. Joseph A. Roach, city, secretary, of Local 210, International Association of Machinists of AFL-CIO. 15. John Konratick, Miners Mills, World War 2 veteran. 16. Harold R. Smith, Edwardsville, florist; Mrs. Anna M. Miller, Kingston. 17. Bernard Makowski, Ashley, World War I veteran. 18. Robert J. Elko, Larksville, electrical engineer;p Martin Nelson, city, manufacturer. 19. Andrew Vitek, Port Griffith. 20. Mrs. Thomas J. Donohoe, Pittston; Robert E. Hessler, associated with Hess ler Laundry Company. 21. Thomas Oldfield, Plymouth councilman; John Boyda, Avoca. 23. Abraham V. Smith, city, former policeman; Mrs. Elizabeth M. Hildebrant, Huntsville, Sunday School teacher. 24. Rev. Samuel E. Arendt, Noxen, pastor of Noxen Tabernacle; Mrs. Florence L. Henderson, city, wife of retired grocer. 25. Miss Mary M. Fisher, city, textile worker; Charles T. Harkins, Plymouth, Korean veteran. 26. Harry Farrell, Nanticoke, former chairman of Pennsylvania Athletic Commission; Athur Jones, Sr., city, painter. 27. Adam J. Yeager, Nuangola. 28. Dr. Charles L. Ashley, physician, Lehmann Township. 29. Dr. James H. Corwin, city, optometrist. 30. Elmer C. Johnson, city, president of Susquehanna Savings and Loan Association; Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, city. 31. Thomas P. Moran, Wilkes-Barre City health officer. JANUARY, 1958 1. Charles Turner, Duryea; Frank Snyder, Larksville. 2. Edward M. Bartikowsky, retired city merchant; Mrs. Martha S. LaBar, Kingston. 3. Harry Tinklepaugh, Exeter, Worlk War I veteran; Mrs. Margaret Owen, Luzerne. 4. William D. Jonathan, Nanticoke, mine foreman; Ernest F. Booth, Wyoming. 5. William J. Wills, Sr., Avoca hotel owner; Thomas F. Cawley, Duryea. 6. Thomas J. Harkins, Mountiaintop educator; John J. Budzynski, Plains Township. 7. Donald Ischter, city, Ashley native; Mrs. Leslie Harrison, Hunlock Creek. 8. Mrs. Edward Yuhas, Avoca, auto accident victim; Anthony H. Supchak, Plymouth Township. 9. Michael Stoffan, Ashley, father of three policemen; Carl C. Sevison, city, retired printer. 10. Charles V. Clause, Breslau, crane operator; William C. Fletcher, Plymouth. 11. Peter J. Neylon, Sr., city, World War I veteran; Mrs. Edith Gimber, city. 12. Mrs. Hope Williams, city; Martin Loftus, city, retired carpenter-contractor. 14. William L. Parry, Luzerne; Thomas Park, Korn Krest. 15. George W. Reed, city, bakery employe; Harry Davidson, Kingston. 16. Mrs. Carrie Breese, city. 17. Edward T. Evans, Lee Park, Spanish-American War veteran; John B. MacDonald, Pittston. 18. Carrie B. Jelly, city, Sunday School teacher; Joseph P. Bankovich, Swoyersville, Signal Depot official. 19. Mrs. Mary E. Innes, Kingston; William F. Austin, Luzerne, hardware salesman. 20. Philip B. Weiss, Coatesville, Triangle Shoe Company cofounder; Walter Devans, Kingston, retired contractor. 21. Francis C. Bowersox, city, retired State legislator; Joseph W. Ruburry, Kingston, retired machinist. 22. Erskine L. Solomon, city, Spanish-American War veteran; Mrs. Mary Rutherford, Kingston. 23. Clarence Sutter, Pittston, assistant fire chief; Charles S. Stanski, Plymouth, state trooper. 24. Mrs. Catherine Briem, Forty Fort, musician; Mrs Josephine Jayne, Kingston. 25. Dr. Preston J. Sturdevant, Huntsville, dentist. Mrs. Eliza Malpass, Forty Fort. 26. Theodore Angle, Nanticoke, church deacon; Glen Davis, city chauffeur. 27. Harold Peters, city, retail meat dealer. 28. Louis Schrode, city, retired Lehigh Valley Railroad painter; Emory Rinehimer, city, city, boiler foreman. 29. Mres. Mae Patton, Luzerne; Miss Wanda V. Zawatski, West Wyoming, educator. 30. Clarence H. Berlew, Binghamton, N.Y., former West Pittston councilman; Mrs. Hattie B. Wesley, Loyalville. 31. Carl A. Leighton, Sr., city, realtor; Anna M. Evans, Harveys Lake, former city women’s apparel shop operator. FEBRUARY 1. Edwad C. Dozyk, Lee Park educator; Mrs. Anna Zugarek, Ashley. 2. Mrs. Elizabeth Murray, city; Francis H. Hettinger, Plymouth, father of minister. 3. Mrs. Mabel D. Stark, St. Cloud, Minn., formerly of West Pittston; Stanley Juzwiak, Miners Mills, lumber dealer. 4. Attorney Maurice C. Gaertner, city; Stephen Nayduch, Hudson, retured trucker. 5. Mrs. Ellen R. Pugh, Plymouth; Casper Cebula, Dupont, former prisoner of war. 6. Mrs. James V. O’Donnell, Lee Park. 7. Mrs. Louis F. Eshelman, city; Rev. Joseph C. Korman, Freeland. 8. Mrs. Marcella Terzi, Exeter; Lorenzo Miles, Wilkes-Barre Township. 9. Dr. Daniel H. Evans, Ashley, dentist; Robert Smith, Hudson, retired railroader. 10. Jerome W. Walsh, West Pittston, U. S. Labor Department aide; Mrs Blanche Sordoni, Kingston. 11. George Williams, Jr., Philadelphia, Wilkes-Barre native; William T. Smith, Forty Fort. 12. Sister Mary Rosario, St. Mary’s Convent, city; Joseph J. Nemetz, Warrior Run. 13. Mrs. Betti Klein, city; Attorney Frank J. Williams, Cleveland, Kingston native. 14. Charles A. James, Dallas, secondary education supervising principal; Mrs. James Sugden, Hazleton, former city resident. 15. Dr. Daniel G. Robinhold, Forty Fort; Hyman Landau, city, businessman. 16. William Griffiths, Trucksville, retired chauffeur. Harry W. Glace, Trucksville, retired Hazard supervisor. 17. Mrs. Thelma J. Rinehart, city, wife of Lutheran minister; Mrs. Anna G. Haley, city, physicians’ widow. 18. Dr. Bennett McGuire, West Pittston, physician; Mrs. Elizabeth H. Case, Kingston. 19. James B. Post, Sr., Lee Park, electrical appliance dealer; William J. Brandt, city, machinist. 20. Edgar M. Hill city; Bessie McDonald city native. 21. Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, city; Edward D. Phillips, city, retired teacher. 22. George C. Hartman, city, veteran railroad policeman; Mrs. Hannan Brennan, Bear Creek. 23.Mrs. Carrie E. Solt, city, who leaves 127 survivors; James D. Dorris, Jr., West Nanticoke, auto salesman. 24. Mrs. Margaret Havard, Plymouth; Thomas A. Powell, city, machinist. 25. John R. Jones, Kingston, retired contractor; Fred Brown, Exeter, retried farmer. 26. Mrs. Mary A. Schrode, city; Mrs Ella K. Harms, city. 28. George J. Aton, Allentown, former Ashley resident; John Thomas, city, member of Orpheus Glee Club. MARCH 1.John V. Heffernan, Alexandria, Va., former managing editor of the Sunday Independent; Richard Powell, Forty Fort, retired chief of Luzerne County detectives. 2. Peter Konrad, Sr., Buttonwood; Mrs. Maryanna W. Kierpet, Trenton, J. J., Ashley native. 3. Richard J. Egan, Harding, retired railroader; William T. Pero, Fernbrook, Spanish-American War Veteran. 4. George R. Schultz, Wynnewood, Pa., former executive vice president of Hanover National Bank of Wilkes-Barre; Raymond Housley, city, telegrapher. 5. Sheridan R. Kresge, Parsons, organist; Mrs. Joseph Lewis, Plymouth. 6. Morris Rosenthal, Kingston, contractor. 7. Charles A. Malpass, Forty Fort, contractor; Richard E. Kniffen, Long Island, Wilkes-Barre native. 8. Rev. Martin A. Schmitt, SJ, Philadelphia, formerly of Wilkes-Barre; John Sempa, Avoca. 9. Miss Mary F. Job, Nanticoke, teacher; Charles W. Hubbell, West Pittston, mechanical engineer. 10. Harold E. Hirthler, city, accountant; John Lupas, Thornhurst, former Plains Township commissioner. 11. William A. James, Forty Fort, engineer; John Williams, Nanticoke, railroad brakeman. 12. John b. Knapp, city, architect; Howard E. Aston, city, retired druggist. 13. Joseph J. Graziano, Pittston funeral director; George C. Dorbad, Pittston, grocer. 14. John D. Jenkins, Kingston, Baker; Sister Mary Cletus, Cornwall heights, Pa., Pittston native. 15. J. Herbert Traher city, postal clerk. 16. Mrs. John McGahren, city, District Attorney’s widow; William F. Dodson, Fernbrook, former undertaker. 17. Mrs. William Moore, Inkerman. 18. Mrs. William G. Fine, Nanticoke; Mrs. Anna E. Gray, Kingston. 19. Mrs. Helen Sowa, East White Haven; Edmund Busse, Jr., Plymouth. 20. Joseph A. Kozak, city, attorney; Mrs. Ada D. Hobbes, Kingston. 21. Roland B. Bell, Kingston, former Ashley school director; Simon Yucas, Duryea, contractor. 22. John Shimko, Larksville. 23. Davis S. Gibbons, city, former vice president of Wyoming Valley Bowling League. 25. Richard J. Wilson, Forty Fort, professional engineer; Clifford J. Hoats, city, Pennsylvania Power and Light employe. 27. John H. Entrekin, city, agent for Pettebone estate; Samuel Oppenheimer, city, retired merchant; Rev. Dr. Homer S. May, Lancaster, former pastor of First Evangelical and Reformed Church, city. 28. Mrs. Loretta Black Gorham, Ashley; Andrew Sedol, city, salesman. 30. M. Ross White, Sylvan Lake, Wilkes-Barre native; Paul Sweet, city. 31. Charles M. Berry, Forty Fort, electrical engineer. APRIL 1. Joseph Wycallis, Duryea, police sergeant. 2. Mrs. Yale Stevens, New York City, Wilkes-Barre native; Royal C. Stout, Lake Nuangola, actor and co-owner of Grove Theater; Arthur W. Harman, Plymouth, superintendent of schools. 3. William P. Boyle, city, railroad dispatcher. 4. John Lympany, city, banker; J. George Bergstrasser, city, barer. 5. Sephaniah Reese, Plymouth, machine shop owner. 6. John Thomas, West Pittston, druggist. 7. Mrs. Frank H. Law, Kingston. 8. Rev. Frederick Atkinson, Pittsburgh, former Plains resident; Charles Buck, former circulation manager for Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader; Donald N. Smith, city, superintendent of Providence Shops, Hudson Coal Company. 10. Mrs. Olive L. Ferguson, Forty Fort. 11. J. Upton Oliver, Plymouth, veteran. 12. Hugh Farrell, Bear Creek Township, retired insurance and real estate salesman. 13. Mrs. Charles Edwards, Plymouth, Sunday School teacher. 14. Mrs. Irene E. Kaiser, city, church worker; Joseph Ferko, Ashley, railroader. 15. John A. Judge, Johnstown, Wilkes-Barre native; Mrs. Carrie G. Stout, Mountaintop; Nicholas J. Burginia, city. 16. Harry G. Thomas, Luzerne. 17. Edward G. Markert, railroader. 18. Gordon L. Smithkors, city; Martin Munson, Sugar Notch, former president of borough council. 20. Bertram E. Schuman, city, chief machinist in composing room of Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company; Joseph J. Hasay, Shickshinny, automobile dealer; Mres. Michalina Kopicki, Kingston, retired funeral director; John A. Bohn, secretary of Hanover Township School Board. 22. Mrs. Harriet P. Neeld, Nuangola postmaster; Charles V. Mains, Kingston, former director of Greater Wilkes-Barre Real Estate Board; Mrs. Catherine Goeringer, city. 23. Mrs. Stephen Bellanca, Harding. 24. Mrs. Jule Heacock, city, supervisor of art. 25. Paul J. Hanlon, Wilkes- Barre native. 26. Clarenece W. Connelly, Ashley, retired mailman; Henry Whipple, city, church sexton; Mrs. Margaret Ann LaBarre, West Pittston, stationary store proprietor. 27. Harry L. Fox, city, church deacon; William C. Turley, Nanicoke, World War I veteran. 28. Harold S. O’Brian, Wilkes-Barre native, banker; Boyd H. Remaley, Shickshinny, busineesman; Rev. Joseph Kennedy, College Misericordia faculty member; Stephen F. Hartman, Harveys Lake school director. 29. Rev. Adrian B. Foote, Binghamton, N. Y., former pastor of Methodist Churches in Forty Fort and Plymouth; Maurice Stephens, Jr., Lee Park. 30. Harry B. Meeker, Huntington Mills, former foreman-electrician for Pennsylvania Railroad. MAY 1. Cephas C. Bierly, West Pittston, poet and composer. 2. Mrs. Rose Miriam Davidson, wife of Rabbi I. M. Davidson; Nicholas Macking, retired chief electrical inspector for City of Wilkes-Barre. 3. William M. Howell, Avoca, retired Luzerne County employe; Ray Warden, Shavertown, educator. 4. James C. Reed, Trucksville, chemist; Mrs. Charles C. Hartman, West Pittston. 5. Stephen J. Stefanko, city, GAR High School custodian. 7. Thomas Smith, Shickshinny, farmer; Mrs. Michael Hughes, Kingston, teacher; Michael E. Hendricks, Wilkes-Barre Township commissioner. 8. Sister M. Ancilla, Marywood College, Scranton; Mrs. Rose Cook, city; Rev. Joseph M. McGowan, pastor of St. Catherine’s Church, Moscow. 9. William F. Berry, Kingston, postal clerk. 10. Fred T. Payne, Plymouth, Times-Leader, Evening News, pressman. 11. Mrs. Bertha Horowitz; A. Sidney of Cantor Aaron Horowitz; A. Sidney Burnaford, Nanticoke, retire businessman. 12. Charles F. Donnelly, West Pittston, funeral director; George Demchalk, Wilkes-Barre Township. 13. Mrs. Addie O. Mathers, Trucksville; James M. Flanagan, Pittston, holder of the Carnegie Medal for heroism. 15. William D. Kilgallon, city employe. 16. William A. Connor, city, teacher; James W. Cannon, city, railroader; Griffith Jenkins, former burgess of Tunkhannock. 18. Harry B. Goldsmith, New York City, retired treasurer of Hess, Goldsmith and Compnay. 19. Thomas H. Melson, Forty Fort, former Forty Fort official; Sister Mary Callistus, St. Mary’s Convent, city; Anthony J. Brussock, Kingston, restaurant owner. 20. William Pritchard, Jr., Kingston; Lee S. Austijn, city, electrician; James A. Sheehan, Kingston, retired printer. 21. Mrs. FrancisA. Blaum, White Haven. 22. Mrs. Michael Cross, city. 23. Aurthur C. Kile, Kingston, retried businessman. 24. James H. Lare, Luzerne, retired businessman. 26. Albin Baker, Lake Silkworth, hotel proprietor; Jane Roberts., Nanticoke, teacher. 27. Harry S. Whitman, city, pressman. 28. James H. Williams, St. Petersburg, Fla., formerly of Wilkes-Barre; Marvin Woodward McCarty, city, railroader; Eugene G. Schmidt, Nanticoke, building contractor. 29. Joseph A. McHugh, Sr., Wilkes-Barre Township, former school principal. 30. Edward V. Kennedy city, retried florist; Gail C. Hughes, former Kingston Council member; Mrs. Anna Ortolani, Plains. 31. Dr. Patrick A. McCole, Chevy Chase, Md., former Wilkes-Barre resident; Mrs Harriet L. Roth, Kingston, former president of the Women’s Board of Wyoming Valley Hospital. JUNE 1. Mrs. Margaret Youngblood, Shavertown; Mrs. Anna Hermann, city, Sunday School teacher; Anna C. Devaney, city, retired educator. 2. George T. McGuiness, Lee Park, Luzerne County employe; Dr. Nellie M. Carle, Forty Fort, first woman to practice denistry in Wyoming Valley. 3. George A. Smith, city, retired postal employe. 4. Joseph Wiernusz, Wilkes-Barre Township. 5. Gerald L. Storz, Sr., Luzerne, former school director. 7. George F. Balliet, West Nanticoke, businessman. 9. Joseph H. Born, city. 10. George Robinson, Pittston; Herman B. Shepard, city, attorney. 11. Eugene Y. Randall, Nanticoke, engineer. 12. Jacob Blachun, Shickshinny, restaurateur. 13. Zigmund A. Kowalski, Nanticoke, banker; Leo J. Ward, Kingston, pressman. 14. Fred J. Billings, Tunkhannock, past commander of Temple Commandery 60, Knights Templar. 16. Reuben G. Williams, city, retired businessman; Nunzio Colechio, Hughestown, borough treasurer. 17. George W. Coxe, West Chester, former principal of Newport Township High School. 18. Mrs. Louisa Thompson, city; Harold C. Swan, city, telephone repairman. 19. Shadrach Jones, Kingston, former national chaplain of Society of the 28th Division. 20. Mrs. Malcolm Johnson, Ashley, former Ashley correspondent for Wilkes-Barre Record. 22. Grier LaBarre, West Pittston, retired businessman. 23. Thomas Davis, Wilkes-Barre Township, truant officer. 24. Joseph A. Harkin, city, plumber; Peter Saneski, Wilkes-Barre Township, construction superintendents on Bear Creek Dam. 25. George Horsman, West Pittston, veteran of two World Wars. 26. Patrick J. O’Connor, Kingston, attorney. 27. Brig. Gen. A. Robert Ginsburgh, Arlington, Va., former Wilkes- Barre resident; Robert C. Fox, West Pittston, state commander of United Spanish War Veterans. 28. Edward D. Foster, Mountaintop, railroader. 30. Mrs. Marie Popeck, city; Ernest Herskovitz, Kingston, attorney. JULY 1. Walter Mizinski, Korn Krest. 2. Stephen W. Ulichney, city. 3. Mrs. May N. Price, Crersco, artist. 4. James L. Broadhead, Ashley, railroader. 6. Mrs. Patrick J. Lenahan, city, teacher; Philip Russo, Pittston, businessman. 7. Rev. Felix Lafaj, Glen Lyon. 8. Louis N. Edwards, Nanticoke, barber. 9. William Davis, Sugar Notch, retired railroader; Nathan Leibson, city, retired jeweler. 10. Mrs. Estella Ormsby, Pittston, teacher; Claude T. Kessler, Luzerne, carpenter. 13. John J. Jablonski, Ashley. 14. Joseph T. Holleran, Kingston, railroader; Mrs. Anna Ritsick, Miners Mills. 15. Mrs. Mina J. Miles, city. 16. Pasquale Giordano, city, Luzerne County employe; Edward F. Biezup, Dallas, representative of A & P Stores. 18. George L. Miller, city. 19. Thomas Taylor, former Kingston, councilman. 20. Dr. Carl F. Steinhauer, city dentist; John H. Boyes, Nanticoke, former police and fire chief. 21. Morris Siegel, city, tailor. 22. Mrs. Margaret J. Thomas, city. 23. Mrs. Margaret P. O’Donnell, Kingston. 24. Earl F. Johnson, formerly of Mountaintop, former trustee of General Motors; Lester H. Rowett, Courtdale burgess. 27. James A. Lewis, Wyoming, jeweler. 28. Dr. Francis A. Whiteman, Kingston; Mrs. Anna Kubelis, Nanticoke. 29. Mrs. Edith Thompson, Pittston, past president of Gold Star Mothers. 30. William Hutchinson, Sheatown, retired teacher. 31. Dr. Mead I. S. Schenck West Pittston, dentist; William A. Brady, Kingston, retried government employe. AUGUST 1. Lewis Lloyd, Luzerne. 2. PFC Athur S. Wasserstrom, city, serving with Army in Japan; Bert Walker, West Pittston, retired railroader. 3. Anthony J. Makarczyk, Sr., Nanticoke, grocer; Otto C. Glawe, city, Luzerne County employe. 4. Mrs. Janet MacLuskie Smith, city, past president of Irem Temple Auxiliary; Mrs. Howard D. Baldwin, Upper Darby, Wilkes-Barre native; Ella T. Devaney, city, retired postal employe. 5. Mrs. John J. Sheerin, Kingston; Alfred Bird, city, federal government employe. 7.William O. Washburn, city, civic leader; Harold R. Kelley, Kingston, electrician for Lehigh Valley industries. 8. Thomas F. Mack, Kingston. 9. Olin E. Lear, Sr., city construction supervisor. 10. John Bstok, Nanticoke, former hotel operator. 11. Mrs. Anna Bercovit, city, widow of optometrist; Rev. Gilbert Monroe, OFM, Paterson, N. J. former pastor of St. Joseph’s Monastery, Georgetown; John R. Sheridan, Kingston, retired mail carsier. 12. Charles E. Dotter, Ashley, retired railroad conductor. 13. Mrs. George Halliday, city, former principal of Dana Street School. 14. Mrs. Harry Twarowski, Sweet Valley, banker’s widow; Norti Berti, Dallas burgess. 17. Mrs. Ernest G. Smith, city, publisher’s widow and mother of two publishers; Mrs. Josephine Dycewski, Larksville, 106 years- of-age. 19. Anthony Madden, Sr., Kingston, World War I veteran. 20. Lewis P. Rohde, Lee Park, watchmaker. 22. Mrs. Jessie Williamson, Ashley. 23. John J. Dolinski, Glen Lyon, former Newport Township school director. 24. George S. Clarke, Kingston, railroad engineer. 25. William H. Evans, Shavertown, sportsman. 26. Milan L. Shepherd, Kingston, coal contract business operator; Mrs. Jennie R. Singley, city, Girl Scout troop leader. 27. John L. Siani, city, chief petty officer in U. S. Navy; Frederick D. Vincent, city, retired local lawyer; Anthony Galinskas, Pittston, grocery store employe. 28. Charles N. Mitchell, city, retired railroad conductor; Charles Wisnewski, Edwardsville, former member of Edwardsville Council; James W. Pace, Forty Fort, retried educator. 29. Miss bertha Trethaway, city; Leonard Wasilewski, Nanticoke, former newspaperman; George W. Hosler, Orangeville, aged 101. 30. Edward V. Davis, city, choral director and soloist; Frank Davis, Duryea, railroad engineer. 31. Edward Andruscavage, Upper Pittston, World War 2 veteran. SEPTEMBER 1. Edward A. Boyle, Nanticoke, educator; Arthur Wharmby, Plymouth, bus operator. 2. Mrs. Minnie Guyler Evans, city, former choir mother at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. 3. Thomas J. Maher, Kingston, retired chief fireman of Loree Colliery. 4. William Klein, city, retried lace worker; Stanley E. Edwards, Sr., WilkesBarre Township restaurant operator. 5. Charles P. O’Connell, city, veteran newspaperman; Mrs Bessie M. Line, Pittston, organizer of Junior Red Cross in Pittston prior to World War I. 6. Karl A. Ashworth, Sr., city, railroad telegrapher; Miss Catherine Mollahan, city, retired school teacher. 7. Mrs. Ellen Edgerton Acornley, city, General Hospital aide; Miss Elizabeth J. Tippett, city, retired school teacher. 9. Bruce G. Trumbower. Muhlenburg, past president of Plymouth Kiwanis Club. 10. Msgr. John V. Delaney, Fleetwood, N. Y., Port Griffith native; Mrs. Marguerite H. Bugbee, city. 14. Edward J. Brotherton, Dallas, retired plumbing and heating contractor. 15. Mrs. Rose M. Randall, Kingston. 17. Arthur G. Barres, city, retried sales manager; William R. (Penn) Williams, city, retried Luzerne County Courthouse custodian; Edward B. Yarrish, Wilkes-Barre Township, past deputy governor of Lions. 18. Ferdinand Hutter, Trucksville, brewer; Rev. Francis Hubert Durkin, Glen Lyon. 19. Robert W. Sorber, Outlet, Harveys Lake, carpenter and stone mason; Thomas W. Morris, Laurel Run, Spanish War Veteran. 20. Albert Williams, Kingston, N. Y., former treasurer of Plains Township; John A. Hogan, city fireman. 21. Mrs. Elizabeth E. Jones, city, active in Y W C A work. 22. Dr. Mose Prinstein, city, retired optometrist; Benjamin J. Boyd, city, retired Glen Alden employe. 23. William (Uncle Bill) Francis, West Pittston, retired police chief. 25. Rev. Samuel T. Anzalone, OSJ, Pittston native; C. F. Goeringer, city, banker and contractor. 26. Anthony Epstine, city, clerk at courthouse; Mrs. Clara Cordick, city, former Sunday School teacher. 28. Ira F. Tinsley, Kingston, retired machinist; Miss Anna Bell, Ashley, retried teacher. 29. Raymond H. Transue, Kingston, postal clerk. 30. Mrs. John J. Mulcahy, New York City; John Dugan, city. OCTOBER 1. Casimir A. Sieminski, Swoyersville, businessman. 2. John D. Davis, city insurance agent; Mrs. Praxeda C. Walker, city, school teacher. 3. Phil Kaufer, Lee Park. 5. Leon Mech, city; George J. Jennings, West Wyoming. 6. Mrs. Ella Bloom, Kingston, oldest member of Kingston Presbyterian Church; John C. Garis, Ashley. 7. B. Frank Stives, city. 8. Mrs. Elsie Keller Bugbee, city, civic leader; Vincent O. Christian, Dallas Township; Rev. John J. Lane University of Notre Dame, former president of King’s College; Thomas L. Wynne, Inkerman, retired mine official. 9. Michael Kosko, Edwardsville, former Edwardsville councilman and policeman. 10. Clyde D. Miller city; Victor P. Puhlick, Kingston, retired druggist. 11. Mrs. John H. Blackman, Idetown, civic leader; John P. Gibbons, Plains, educator. 12. Edward J. Moore, city, attorney; Patrick W. Whalen, city, retired mail carrier. 14. Jesse Williams, Sr., city, Sunday School superintendent; Bertha Hinchcliff, Sebastopol, retired teacher. 15. Edward Tuminski, Duryea, former councilman; John A. Burton, city. 16. Sister Mary Borgia, RSM, College Misericordia; Andrew Gula, Sr., Swoyersville; Mrs. Lucretia Jones, Nanticoke; Mrs. Ameilia M. George, city. 18. Dr. Joseph C. Aszuk, city, physician. 19. William J. Schiel, Bear Creek Township. 21. Rose Belefski, Glen Lyon, former teacher; Mres Eugene Burke, city; Rev. Gregory Rokosz, Cadogan, Pa., Nanticoke native. 23. Wilson J. Hauser, White Haven, electric power pioneer. 24. Patrick J. Hogan, city Spanish American War veteran; Mrs. Mary Roos, city, detective’s widow. 26. Michael Bauman, Duryea, president of Duryea Rod and Gun Club; Joseph A. Golden, Pittston, railroader. 27. Frank Mack, Pittston department store owner; Philip Springer, city, retired merchant. 28. Edwin J. Lewis, Sr., Nanticoke, florist; John Chapko, city, fireman. 29. J. Edward Terry Forty Fort, salesman. 30. George Wyda, city, retired miner; Dr.Donald Guthrie, Sayre, Wilkes-Barre native; Rev. Paul A. Kopicki, Kingston, pastor of St. Hedwig’s Roman Catholic Church. 31. Ralph E. White, Lee Park, Hanover Township, Korean veteran; Mrs. Margaret Pace, Kingston. NOVEMBER 1. Thomas H. Powell, West Pittston, former policeman; Conrad Antkiewicz, Nanticoke, policeman. 2. George W. Schappert, city. 3. Jacob Hoover, Trucksville; James Boyle, city. Albert L. Seibel, city, insurance salesman; William Shewan, Jr.,Kingston, utility official; Stanley J. Tyburski, city, former court interpreter. 6. John Henry Kemp, city, electrical engineer; Mrs. Amelia C. Morgan, city. 7. Mrs. Sarah H. Litts, Luzerne. 8. Joseph Jones, city, retired policeman; Joseph G. Schuler, former Wilkes-Barre councilman and fire chief. 9. Mrs. Francis Conniff, Plains. 10. Harry W. Crawford, Sr., Nanticoke, store owner; P. Roy Dershimer, West Pittston, businessman. 12. Ray H. Arnold, city retired brewery engineer. 13. Anthony Dziedzic, Pot Griffith. 14. William H. Baugh, city, accountant; Mrs. Fred R. Roberts, Kingston. 15. George M. Bourquin, city, former federal judge. 16. Mrs. Elizabeth Frew, Avoca. 17. Thomas Giarratano, Pitttston. 18. Joseph Moyles, city. 20. Eugene L. Delaney, Plymouth, educator; Raymond J. Hughes, Wyoming, retired mail carrier; Robert Godlewski city, auto accident victim. 21. Mrs. Patrick L. Naylis, Edwardsville, teacher; Thomas W. Loftus, Kingston, railroad dispatcher. 22. Charles D. F. Belles, Lee Park; Mrs. Marguerite G. King, city, retired teacher. 23. John P. Reiser, city, voting machine custodian. 24. John Stec, Dorrance, farmer. 25. Joseph S. Petro Nanticoke businessman and plumbing inspector; Andrew J. Murphy, city, former Ashley Burgess. 26. Gail S. Hughes, Kingston, funeral director; Mrs. Yetta Greenwald, city. 27. Charles Dippre, city, railroad electrician; Mrs. Albert W. Knecht, Pittston, former teacher. 28. Mrs. George J. Curran, Plymouth, former teacher; James A. Connors, Kingston, retired auto worker. 29. Harry I. Kornblau, city, businessman. 30. Mrs. Kathleen F. Cashmark, Trucksville. Typed by Robin Percy, July 2004