Obituaries

Donna Lynn Hollister
Mar 3, 2015
Donna Lynn Hollister, age 60, of (Auburn Center), Lott Rd., Meshoppen, PA. passed away early Tuesday morning, March 3, 2015 at the Celtic Hospice and Home Health at Geisinger South, in Wilkes Barre, PA. Donna was born on August 19, 1954 on Staten Island, NY, the daughter of the late Robert and Barbara Rubelli Martin. Donna was a graduate of...
Louis A. Aeppli
Mar 3, 2015
Louis A. Aeppli, age 93, of Herrickville, PA passed away Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at the Skilled Nursing Unit of Memorial Hospital in Towanda, PA. Louis had spent the last few years at the Wyalusing Personal Care Home. Louis was born on December 6, 1921 in Wayne County Pennsylvania the son of the late Julius Albert and Eulah Sanders Aeppli....
Charles L. Siracuse
Mar 3, 2015
Charles L. Siracuse, age 89, of Meshoppen, PA and formerly of South Montrose, PA passed away Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at Geisinger Wyoming Valley in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Charles was also a resident at Golden Living in Tunkhannock, PA for nine years. Charles was born on February 16, 1926 the son of the late Charles and Nellie Hawley Siracuse. He attended...
Gayle A. Parkhurst
Mar 3, 2015
Gayle A. Parkhurst, age 69, of Lacey Street, Laceyville, PA passed away early Tuesday morning, March 3, 2015 at the VNA Hospice of the C.M.C. Hospital in Scranton, PA. Gayle was born on May 11, 1946 in Towanda, PA the daughter of the late Ralph D. Jackson, who passed away on November 4, 1996, and Betty H. Decker Jackson, of...
Paul J. Cresho Sr.
Mar 2, 2015
Mr. Paul J. Cresho Sr., age 80, of Route 706, Wyalusing, PA. (Taylorville), passed away on Monday afternoon, March 2, 2015 at the Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, PA, with his loving family at his side. Born on January 11, 1935 in Wayne County, PA., he was the son of the late Andrew and Mary Cresho. After his graduation from...
Eric Thomas Hercenberg
Feb 26, 2015
Eric T. Hercenberg, age 56, of Iron Bridge Road, New Albany, PA (New Era) passed away Thursday afternoon, February 26, 2015 resulting from injuries sustained from a car accident that occurred near Spring Lake, PA. Eric was born on August 23, 1958 the son of late Dmitry R. Jr. who passed away on February 13, 2011 and Claire A. Cayer...
Julie Kathleen Heft Ryan
Feb 24, 2015
Julie Kathleen Heft Ryan, age 46, of Route 367, Laceyville, PA., passed away suddenly at her home, in Tuscarora twp., Bradford Co., on Tuesday evening February 24, 2015. Julie was born in Flemington, NJ, in Hunterdon County, on November 15, 1968 the daughter of Ruth Kathleen Kupcha Heft of Main St., Laceyville, PA, and the late Robert L. Heft Sr.,...
Ellen M. Wilson
Feb 19, 2015
Ellen M. Wilson, age 92, of Wyalusing, PA passed way Thursday evening, February 19, 2015 at the Highlands Care Center in Laporte, PA. Ellen was born on November 15, 1922 in Herrickville, PA the daughter of the late Arthur and Vera Overpeck Leavenworth. She graduated from Eastern High School in Washington, D.C. with the class of 1940. She pursued her...
Helen C. Clark
Feb 17, 2015
Helen C. Clark, age 88, of Farr Road, Meshoppen, PA passed away on Tuesday afternoon, February 17, 2015 at the Golden Living Center in Tunkhannock, PA. Helen was born in Scranton, PA on October 3, 1926 the daughter of the late Charles Kveragas and Josephine Shimkus. She married her husband Edward S. Clark on December 19, 1959. Helen worked at...
Harold L. Haefka
Feb 16, 2015
Harold L. Haefka, age 80, of Stevensville, PA (formerly of Lorain, OH) passed away Monday morning, February 16, 2015 at the Bradford County Manor in Troy, PA. Harold was born on November 19, 1934 in Lorain, OH the son of the late Karl Frederick and Elsie Braun Haefka. He served his country in the US Army. He was employed with...
David E. Wood
Feb 13, 2015
Mr. David E. Wood, age 63, of Laceyville, PA., passed away unexpectedly on Friday evening, February 13, 2015 at the Tyler Memorial Hospital, in Tunkhannock, PA, where he had been taken earlier in the day. Born in Meshoppen, PA. on November 13, 1951, Dave was the son of the late Alva G. and Alice M. Stegner Wood. Growing up in...
George Surplus
Feb 12, 2015
Mr. George Surplus, age 67, of Detrick Rd., Sugar Run, PA passed away unexpectedly at the Memorial Hospital in Towanda, PA on Thursday, February 12, 2015. George was born in Scranton, PA on January 5, 1948, the son of the late Lemule and Ruth Strausser Surplus. George served his country as a member of the US Army, during the Vietnam...
Albert Dale Salsman
Feb 11, 2015
Mr. Albert Dale Salsman, age 87, of Route 187, Sugar Run, PA, went home to be with his Savior on Wednesday afternoon, February 11, 2015, at the Gino J. Merli Veterans' Center in Scranton, PA. Dale was born on June 16, 1927 on Golden Hill, Windham twp., Wyoming Co., PA the son of the late Frank and Vergie Harris Salsman....
Helen Marie Goodwin Newhart
Feb 1, 2015
Helen Marie Goodwin Newhart, age 92, of Laceyville, PA passed away Sunday, February 1, 2015 surrounded by her loving family at the Golden Living Center in Tunkhannock, PA. She was born on November 12, 1922 in Elmira, NY. She was the daughter of the late Charles Goodwin and Leslie and Gladys Harris. She was a 1942 graduate of Laceyville High...
William "Bill" Norman Spyker
Jan 29, 2015
William "Bill" Norman Spyker, age 87, of Wyalusing, PA formerly of Alexandria, PA passed away Thursday, January 29, 2015 at the Memorial Hospital in Towanda, PA. Bill was born on September 9, 1927 in Huntingdon County, PA the son of the late Ida Mae Chilcote and Norman C. Spyker. He graduated from the Huntingdon High School with the class of...
Robert Caswell Jr.
Jan 18, 2015
Robert "Bob" Caswell, Jr., age 87, of Wyalusing, PA passed away peacefully surrounded by his children on Sunday morning, January 18, 2015 at the Skilled Nursing Unit at Memorial Hospital in Towanda, PA. Robert was born on February 14, 1927 in Lime Hill, PA, and was the son of the late Mervil Van Kuren Caswell and Robert Caswell, Sr. He...
Barbara "Bea" A. Szymanski
Jan 16, 2015
Barbara "Bea" A. Szymanski, age 73, of Laceyville, PA passed away early Friday morning, January 16, 2015 at the CMC Inpatient Hospice Unit in Scranton, PA. Bea was born on May 20, 1941 in Somerville, NJ the daughter of the late Frank Ryker and Eleanor Winfield and Joseph Kupcha. She was the wife of Frank C. Syzmanski of Laceyville, PA....
Joyce G. Wentovich
Jan 15, 2015
Joyce G. Wentovich, age 82, , of Wyalusing, PA, the wife of the late Peter Wentovich passed away Thursday January 15, 2015 at the Skilled Nursing Unit at Memorial Hospital in Towanda, PA. Joyce was born on September 1, 1932. She was adopted as an infant in Rye, NY by Robert and Grace McEwan. The family moved to California until...
Mary Bunnell
Jan 15, 2015
Mary Bunnell, age 98, of Willow Brook in Clarks Summit, South Abington Township, Lackawanna County, PA passed away early Thursday morning, January 15, 2015 at Tyler Memorial Hospital in Tunkhannock, PA. She was formerly of Meshoppen, PA for many years. Mary was born on January 26, 1916 the daughter of the late Xavier Harry and Louise Juzwiak. She married John...
R. Lucille Vannest Bride
Jan 7, 2015
On the morning of January 7, 2015, R. Lucille VanNest Bride took her husband's, Joe, and daughter's, Kathy, hand to be reunited with the Lord. Lucille was born on March 12, 1931 in Standing Stone Township, PA the daughter of the late Fay and Florence Trumbull VanNest. She was a graduate of Towanda High School with the class of 1949....




