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Mary B Yedinak

August 13, 2020

Mary B. Yedinak of Hamlin died Thursday evening at home following an illness. Her husband was the late Joseph T. Yedinak, who died in 2015. The couple had been married for 64 years.   Born in Carbondale in 1930, Mary was th...
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Anna Bianchi

August 11, 2020

Anna Rose Bianchi, South Canaan, died Tuesday in the Wayne Memorial Hospital after an illness.  She was the widow of Arnold J. Bianchi who died in 1999, Born 1932 in Blakley, she was the daughter of the late Peter and Elizabeth Zahradnick Oleniacz ...
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Teresa del Portal Gomez

August 9, 2020

  Teresa del Portal, 98, of Freehold, NJ and formerly of Lake Ariel, died Sunday morning at Wedgwood Gardens Care Center following an illness. Her late husband Edberto del Portal died in 2008. Born, May 26, 1922 in Cuba, she was the da...

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Rick Allen

August 9, 2020

Frederick (Rick) C. Allen, of Lake Ariel, originally from Oyster Bay, LI., died Sunday evening at his home in the hideout. He is survived by his wife of 30 years Christine C. Allen and a stepson Brett Scholer. Born March 11, 1938 in Williston Park N...
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MaryAnn Miller Coria

August 6, 2020

MaryAnn Miller, 75, of Whiting, NJ and lifelong resident of New Egypt, NJ passed on peacefully Thursday morning surrounded by her loving family. Born, October 14, 1944 in Princeton, NJ, she was the daughter of the late Arsene and Mary Tomenchok Co...
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Vera L. Lewis

August 3, 2020

Vera L. Lewis, 106 of Rockford, IL, died peacefully in her sleep Monday evening at the Julia Ribaudo Extended Care Center in Lake Ariel. Born January 18, 1914 in Omaha, NE, she was the daughter of the late Abraham and Virginia Robinson Danner. Ver...
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Franklin A Kellogg

July 31, 2020

Franklin A. Kellogg, Lake Ariel, passed away Friday afternoon in the Regional Hospital of Scranton.  His wife of  53 years is the former Gloria Jean O’Brien. Born March 6, 1940 in Saco, PA he was the son of the late Bernard and Elizabeth Beave...
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Jason Vernarec

July 29, 2020

Jason Vernarec, 49, of Lakeville, died Wednesday afternoon at his mother’s home in Hamlin after a courageous battle with cancer. Born in Sussex New Jersey, he was the son of Nancy Polyi Stowell and James Vernarec. He was a graduate of Blue Stone H...
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Phyllis E. Gutknecht Swoyer

July 27, 2020

    Phyllis “Suzie” Gutknecht, 70 of Jefferson Twp, passed away peacefully and went home with our Lord and Savior on July 27, 2020. Her ...
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Gerald R Loscig

July 21, 2020

Gerald R. Loscig of South Canaan died Tuesday at the Hospice of the Sacred Heart Inpatient Unit, Dunmore. His wife was the former Joan Swingle who proceeded him in death in 2014. Born in Seelyville, he was the son of the late Raymond and A...

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Elmer Day

July 17, 2020

Elmer Day, South Canaan, died Friday at Geisinger Wyoming Valley after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.  His wife of  53 years is the former Treva Pennell. Born 1948 in Hancock, NY, he was the son of Doris Maudsley Day and the late Maur...
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Dolores Garvin

July 12, 2020

Dolores Garvin, 80, of Lake Ariel died Sunday evening at Allied Services Hospice Center following a brief illness. Born, February 2, 1940 in Old Forge, she was the daughter of the late Hugh and Anna Jadick Garvin. Dolores retired from the Human Reso...
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William R. Reese, Sr.

July 4, 2020

William R. Reese, Sr., 86, of Clifton Twp died Saturday morning at home following an illness. He is survived by his loving wife of 63 years, Beatrice “Jean” Reese.  Born August 31, 1933, he was the son of late Russell and Florence Dieter Rees...
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Ruth E. Black Frisbie

July 3, 2020

Ruth E. Black, 98, of Cortez died Friday evening at St. Mary’s Villa following an illness. Her husband of 50 years, Edward Black died in 1992. Born October 4, 1921 in Lake Ariel, she was the daughter of the late Hiram and Florence Owen Frisbie. Sh...
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Alfred R. Rosengrant

July 3, 2020

Alfred R. Rosengrant, 93, of Cortez died Friday evening at Allied Services Hospice Center following an illness. His loving wife of 74 years is the former Georgina Kizer. Born October 24, 1926 in Elmhurst, he was the son of the late Walter and Floren...

Barbara Barrett Willmott

July 2, 2020

Barbara Barrett, 95, of Lake Ariel, died Friday morning at Julia Ribaudo Extended Care Center. Her husband of 47 years, Harold E. Barrett died in 1995. Born, December 4, 1924 in Weehawken, NJ she was daughter of the late William and Barbara Lachenau...
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Sophie Thoman

July 2, 2020

Sophie Thoman, infant daughter of Ronald and Samantha Howey Thoman of Jefferson Township, died shortly after birth. Also surviving are her loving brother and sister Niklaus and Gracie;  paternal grandparents Michelle and Ronald Thoman of Jefferson ...
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David E. Samson

June 19, 2020

David Elmer Samson, 59, of Honesdale, PA, passed away Friday, June 19, 2020 at Scranton Regional Hospital. Dave was born June 7, 1961 in Honesdale. He grew up on a small farm in Lake Ariel, PA, graduating from Western Wayne High School in 1979. &n...

Edward J. Tripus

June 17, 2020

Edward J. Tripus, 94, of Sterling, PA, died Wednesday evening at his home. He was the husband of Ruth Stanat Tripus. The couple would have been married 70 years on July 29, 2020. Born in Avoca, PA, he was the son of the late Paul a...
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Cecilia V. Jurlando Mannino

June 14, 2020

Cecilia V. Jurlando, 72, of Greentown died Sunday evening at home following an illness. Her husband of 37 years, Thomas W. Jurlando, Sr. passed away in 2018. Born April 19, 1948 in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Ceci...

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Rolf H Bortner

June 14, 2020

Rolf Hedin Bortner, 72, died Sunday evening at his son's home in Waymart. He was the husband of the late Catherine Ward Bortner who passed away January 25, 2012. Born in Huntington Long Island, he was the son of the late Robert and Siv Hedin Bortn...

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Donald Tyler

June 2, 2020

Donald E. Tyler, 89, of Moscow, died Tuesday morning at Wayne Memorial Hospital in Honesdale. He was the husband of the late Betty Tyler. Born in Honesdale, he was the son of the late Edward Tyler and Lydia Goodman Smith. He employed as a truck dr...

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Carl S. Clark

June 1, 2020

Carl S. Clark, 96, of Salem Twp., died Monday night at St. Mary’s Villa Nursing Home following complications after recovering from COVID-19 s. His first wife the former Mabel Smith died in 1998 and his second wife the former Audrey Polley died in...
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Dexter John Ashley

June 1, 2020

Dexter John Ashley, 57, of Lake Ariel, PA, went home to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Tuesday morning. Holli Bickford Ashley is his wife of 34 years. Born August 1, 1962, in Old Town, Maine, he was the son of the late Dexter L. and Do...
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Mark K. Havenstrite

May 29, 2020

 Mark K. “Mo” Havenstrite 11-27-1968 – 5-29-2020 Mark K. "Mo" Havenstrite,51, of Madison Twp. passed away Friday May 29, 2020 at the Hospice of Sacred Heart. While his life was cut way to short, he lived life his way. Mark was an avid pranks...

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