Current Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Wilkes-Barre, PA, Luzerne County, & Surrounding Areas
Marguerite Corrigan
Apr 20, 2018
Marguerite Corrigan, 95, of Wilkes-Barre died Friday, April 20, 2018, at Little Flower Manor. Born May 25, 1922 in Wilkes-Barre she was a daughter of the late Luke and Rose McKane Corrigan. Marguerite was a 1940 graduate of Saint Mary's High School and earned her BA from College Misericordia in 1944. Marguerite started working at Saint Mary's Church in the...
Peter H. Geddes
Apr 6, 2018
Peter H. Geddes, 74, of Forty Fort died following a brief illness on Friday, April 6, 2018. Born November 17, 1943 in Wilkes-Barre he was a son of the late James F. and Mary Russell Geddes. A 1961 graduate of Wyoming Seminary, Peter earned his BS from the Case Institute of Technology and MS from the University of Kentucky. Peter...
Dolores H. Hall
Mar 28, 2018
Dolores H. Hall, 88, of Washington Square in Wilkes-Barre went home to be with her Lord on Wednesday, March 28, 2018. Born October 20, 1929 in Wilkes-Barre she was a daughter of the late John and Helen Kabar Poviliatus. Dolores was a graduate of G.A.R. Memorial High School and dedicated most of her life to raising and caring for her...
Catherine Horn Collacott
Mar 8, 2018
Catherine Collacott, 95, a longtime resident of Hagerstown, Maryland, died March 8, 2018 at Saint Luke’s Villa.Born March 15, 1922 in Wilkes Barre, she was a daughter of the late Richard and Honora Healey Horn.A graduate of Meyers High School, Class of 1940, and Wilkes-Barre Business College, she was a secretary for the AFL/CIO in Wilkes-Barre and the FBI in...
Joseph J. Moran
Mar 6, 2018
Joseph J. Moran, Sr., 82, of Wilkes-Barre passed away at his home on March 6, 2018. Joe attended St. Mary's High School and was a veteran of the U.S. Army. He was retired from the Wilkes-Barre Area School District. His mother, Margaret Moran Rynkiewicz, and a son, Joseph J. Moran, Jr., preceded him in death. Joe was an avid Notre...
Joseph McGovern Hoegen
Feb 27, 2018
Joseph McGovern Hoegen, 51, of Mechanicsburg, died unexpectedly on February 27, after complications from a chronic illness. Born August 12, 1966, in Monterey, California, he was a son of the late Rev. Mr. Peter J. and Maureen McGovern Hoegen. Joe was a 1984 graduate of Bishop Hoban High School, Wilkes-Barre, where he was a was a member of their championship...
Mary Devaney Cavanaugh
Feb 21, 2018
Mary Devaney Cavanaugh, 89, passed away February 21st at her daughter's home in Wilmington, Delaware. Born February 27, 1928 in Wilkes-Barre, Mary was a daughter of the late Edward and Helen Devaney and was a proud resident of Wilkes-Barre until recently. She was preceded in death by her husband, Eugene C. Cavanaugh, her brother Thomas Devaney, and sister Jeanne Devaney,...
Robert John Kachinosky
Feb 20, 2018
Robert John Kachinosky, 74, of B'nai Brith Apartments in Wilkes-Barre passed away at his residence on Tuesday, February 20, 2018. Born January 3, 1944 in Detroit, Michigan he was a son of the late Adam and Mary Evancko Kachinosky. Bob was a 1962 graduate of Larksville High School. After high school, Bob enlisted with the United States Navy and later...
Margaret A. Wilkie
Feb 19, 2018
Margaret A. (Peggy) Wilkie passed away at the Kingston Health Care Center, Monday, February 19, 2018, in her 85th year. Peggy was born and lived her whole life in the Wyoming Valley Area and was currently a resident of Kingston Manor. Peg was the daughter of the late Harry L. Wilkie, Sr. and Margaret E. (Wiener) Wilkie. She graduated from...
Ronald W. Martin
Feb 15, 2018
Ronald W. Martin, Sr., 70, beloved husband, father, and grandfather passed away Thursday, February 15, 2018, after a short battle with cancer. Born January 24, 1948, and raised in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, he was a son of the late Edward and Florence Martin. Ron joined the Army at the age of eighteen and proudly served in the Vietnam...
Joan Kenney Mangan
Feb 14, 2018
Joan Marie Kenney Mangan of Bear Creek passed away on February 14th at the age of 80 at Timber Ridge Health Care Center after an illness. Joan was the daughter of the late William and Mae Williams Kenney. She graduated from St. Mary's High School, Mercy Hospital School of Nursing and received a bachelor's degree in Nursing from Seton Hall...
Anne Marie Horn
Feb 11, 2018
Anne Marie Horn, 90, of Wilkes-Barre, passed away peacefully on February 11, 2018, at Mercy Center Skilled Nursing Care, Dallas, surrounded by her loving children.Born July 18, 1927, in Wilkes-Barre, she was the only daughter of Irish immigrants, the late James and Bridget Dougherty Boyle.Anne Marie was a 1945 graduate of St. Mary's High School where she met the love...
Rebecca A. Grohowski RN, BSN
Feb 7, 2018
Rebecca A. Grohowski, RN, BSN, 53, of Wilkes-Barre passed away on Wednesday, February 7, 2018. Born June 19, 1964 in Passaic, New Jersey she was a daughter of Rebecca Gilroy Brown Rushton of Wilkes-Barre and the late John W. Brown, Jr. A graduate of G.A.R. Memorial High School, Becky studied nursing at Wilkes-Barre Area Vo-tech and started her career as...
David R. Brace
Feb 2, 2018
David R. Brace, 78, of River Vale, New Jersey passed away peacefully on February 2, 2018. Born and raised in Kingston he was a son of the late James R. and Lenora Whiting Brace. David moved to Clifton, New Jersey after graduating from Kingston High School. He was a foreman at Cardinal Bag & Envelope for more than forty years...
Mary C. Golden
Feb 1, 2018
Mary C. Golden, 97, of Kingston passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 1, 2018. Born October 12, 1920 in the East End section of Wilkes-Barre she was a daughter of the late Michael J. and Bridget Gibbons Golden. Mary was a 1938 graduate of James M. Coughlin High School and attended Wilkes-Barre Business College. Prior to retirement in 1980, Mary...
Frank J. McHenry
Jan 25, 2018
Frank J. McHenry, 90, passed away peacefully at Saint Luke's Villa on January 25, 2018. Born September 10, 1927 in Wilkes-Barre, a son of the late Frank D. and Ruth Conners McHenry, Frank was a 1946 graduate of Kingston High School. Frank was a member of the Pipe Fitters and Plumbers Union, now the United Association Local 524 for many...
Christopher R. Fox
Jan 21, 2018
Christopher R. Fox, 50, a native of Wilkes-Barre, was taken home by our Lord to be with his mother on Sunday, January 21, 2018. Born February 8, 1967 in Pottstown he was a son of Richard H. Fox of Nanticoke and the late Ann C. Madden Fox. A 1985 graduate of E.L. Meyers High School, Chris was an active member...
Thomas Adamski
Jan 14, 2018
Thomas Adamski, 91, of Washington Square in Wilkes-Barre died Sunday, January 14, 2018. Born October 20, 1926 in the Hanover Section of Nanticoke he was a son of the late Thomas and Lottie Brudnitski Adamski. A Navy veteran of World War II, Tom served our country honorably from 1943 to 1946. A member of the Teamsters Local 814 in Brooklyn,...
Joseph B. McGill
Jan 13, 2018
Joseph B. McGill, 65, of Exeter died Saturday, January 13, 2018. Born November 21, 1952 in Wilkes-Barre he was a son of the late Frank and Mary Murphy McGill. Joe was a 1971 graduate of Meyers High School. Before retiring Joe was an electrician for thirty-four years and maintenance supervisor for his last four years at the Veteran’s Medical Center....
Lawrence E. Hopple
Jan 3, 2018
Lawrence Edward Hopple, 82, a native of Wilkes-Barre, died quietly in his sleep on January 3, 2018. Most of my Dad’s family and friends are gone now, so this obituary acts as a eulogy for a man I met twenty-four years ago. At our first meeting, he was nervous. I have to admit I was too. He was recovering from...
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