Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Families in Bloomsburg
Serving Bloomsburg, PA and surrounding area
Woodrow "Woody" W. Wolfe
Dec 31, 2010
Woodrow "Woody" W. Wolfe, age 86, of Bloomsburg, died on Friday, December 31, 2010 a resident of Grandview Health Homes in Danville. Woody was born on Tuesday, February 26, 1924 in Johnstown, Union County, a son of the late Albert and Pearl Schreckengast Wolfe. He attended the Lewisburg Area Schools. He served during WWII in Normandy in the United States...
Blanche C. Shaffer
Dec 30, 2010
Blanche C. Shaffer, age 97, of Tenth Street in Bloomsburg, died on Thursday, December 30, 2010 a resident of Grandview Health Homes in Danville. Blanche had been a resident of Grandview for the past nine years. Blanche was born on, Tuesday, September 23, 1913, in Wedgetown, a daughter of the late Cleese and Mary Laubauch Girton. She was Salutatorian of...
Kenneth L. Walburn
Dec 26, 2010
Kenneth L. Walburn, age 87, a life long resident of Bloomsburg and most recently a resident of Fritzingertown Senior Living Center in Drums, died on Sunday, December 26, 2010. Kenneth was born on Wednesday, March 7, 1923 in Tamaqua, a son of the late Clarence J. and Lillian E. Ziegler Walburn. He was a member of the 1941 Graduating Class...
Margaret E. Strausser
Dec 12, 2010
Margaret E. Strausser, age 73, of East Eighth Street in Bloomsburg, died at her home on Sunday, December 12, 2010. She was a resident of her home on Eighth Street for over 44 years. Margaret was born on Wednesday, May 12, 1937 in Danville, a daughter of the late Charles T. and Ruth Reed Myers, Sr. She attended the St....
Zoe P. Cromley
Dec 10, 2010
Zoe Cromley, age 94, a long time resident of her home on East Eighth Street in Bloomsburg, died on Friday, December 10, 2010 a resident of Columbia Montour Home Hospice at Maria Hall in Danville. Zoe was born on Friday, March 24, 1916 in Mt. Pleasant Township, a daughter of the late Bruce and Bessie Crawford Parker. She was a...
Freda B. Kreischer
Nov 27, 2010
Freda B. Kreischer, age 93, formerly of Summit Avenue, Bloomsburg, died Saturday, November 27, 2010 a patient of the Bloomsburg Hospital. Freda was a resident of Loyalton of Bloomsburg since July of 2008 and had been ill for three weeks. Freda was born on Monday, April 2, 1917 at home in Bloomsburg, the daughter of the late Charles J. and...
Donald D. Dove
Nov 27, 2010
Donald D. Dove, age 81, of Fifth Street in Bloomsburg, died Saturday, November 27, 2010 a patient of the Bloomsburg Hospital. He was a resident of his home on Fifth Street for the past 48 years. Donald was born on Tuesday, April 16, 1929 in Bloomsburg, the son of the late Lewis U. and Gertrude Laubach Dove, Sr. He was...
Raymond A. Grieser
Nov 25, 2010
Raymond A. Grieser, age 70, a 30 year resident of Scenic Knolls, died Thursday, November 25, 2010 at his home. Ray was born January 14, 1940 in Queens, NY a son of the late Raymond E. and Anne Darak Grieser. Following graduation from the Newtown High School in Queens, NY, Raymond attended SUNY Morrisville and graduated from the University of...
Elizabeth K. "Betty" Evans
Nov 19, 2010
Elizabeth K. "Betty" Evans, age 88, a 50 year resident of East Third Street, Bloomsburg, died Friday, November 19, in Nottingham Village, Northumberland. She was born December 24, 1921 in Norristown, PA. Following graduation from the Norristown High School in 1939, she attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and also studies art at the Bloomsburg university for many years....
Lloyd "Pete" Bradley, Jr.
Nov 12, 2010
Lloyd "Pete" Bradley, Jr., age 85, of Bloomsburg, died on Friday, November 12, 2010, a resident at Emmanuel Nursing Center in Danville. He was a resident of his home on Eighth Street in Bloomsburg since 1960 and most recently resided on Mateo Drive at the Meadows in Danville. Pete was born on Tuesday, July 7, 1925, in Wellsville, Ohio, a...
Ralph H. Eyer
Nov 10, 2010
Ralph H. Eyer, age 80, 1165 Lightstreet Road, Bloomsburg, died Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville. Prior to moving to Lightstreet Road, he resided on E. 10th Street, Bloomsburg for over 31 years. Ralph was born on Saturday, June 14, 1930 in Bloomsburg, the son of the late Ralph H. and Edna (Rupert) Eyer, Sr. He was...
Eleanor May Davies "Scottie" Gordon
Nov 8, 2010
Eleanor May Davies Gordon, "Scottie", age, 66, of Bloomsburg, a lawyer educator was a popular professor at Cheyney University, Lincoln University and Immaculata University, all of Pennsylvania, died on Monday, November 8, 2010, at Columbia Montour Home Hospice at Maria Hall, following a battle with cancer. Scottie was a Master teacher who had the ability to break things down so...
Elmer C. Brigham
Nov 6, 2010
Elmer C. Brigham, age 94,of Northumberland, died Saturday, November 6, 2010 with his wife of 69 years, Sarah Elizabeth (Washburn) Brigham at his side. Elmer was born December 27, 1915 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of the late Herbert M. W. and Maude (McCurda) Brigham. He was a graduate of Latin High School and attended Eastern Nazarene College. He proudly...
Lila Mae Tischler
Nov 5, 2010
Lila Mae Tischler, age 84, of Stoney Brook Circle, Orangeville, died on Friday evening, November 5, 2010, a resident of Bloomsburg Health Care Center. She had been a resident since May of 2010. Lila was born on Tuesday, December 15, 1925 in Pittston, a daughter of the late Melvin and Edith Santee Geib. She attended the Wyoming High School. Throughout...
Glenn E. Raup
Nov 4, 2010
Glenn E. Raup, age 75, of Bloomsburg, died on November 11, 2010 in Bonita Springs, Florida. He was a Bloomsburg resident his entire life, but throughout his later years he would winter in Bonita Springs. Glenn was born on Friday, September 6, 1935 in Bloomsburg, a son of the late Paul F. and Eva I. (Rider) Raup. He was a...
Helen F. Meeker
Nov 2, 2010
Helen F. Meeker, age 95, of 11th Street in Bloomsburg, died suddenly on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 in Geisinger Medical Center in Danville. She was admitted Sunday morning following a sudden illness. Helen was born on Saturday, January 9, 1915 in Berwick, a daughter of the late Leonard R. and Harriet Deiterick Gearhart. She was a member of the 1932...
Lee D. Walter
Oct 31, 2010
Lee D. Walter, age 91, of Glenn Avenue, Bloomsburg, went home to be with his Lord on Sunday, October 31, 2010. He was cared for and nurtured with much love and compassion by the staff of Columbia Montour Home Hospice at Maria Hall in Danville. Lee was born on Saturday, February 1, 1919, in Bloomsburg, a son of the late...
John Stugrin
Oct 21, 2010
John Stugrin, age 97, formerly of Catawissa, a resident of Dushore and Laporte since 2004, died Thursday, October 21, in The Highlands Care Center, Laporte. John was born Sunday, October 12, 1913 in New York, New York, a son of the late Samuel and Theresa Boback Stugrin. John attended a one room school in the Numidia area. During World War...
Verna Rakocy
Oct 19, 2010
Verna Rakocy, age 88, of Old Berwick Road, Bloomsburg, died on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, a resident of Balanced Care at Bloomsburg. Prior to her residence in Bloomsburg, she was also a resident of Kane, Pennsylvania prior in her life. Verna was born on Wednesday, April 19, 1922, in Mt. Carmel, a daughter of the late Walter and Sophia Grenda....
Angelo M. Bafile
Oct 19, 2010
Angelo M. Bafile, age 86, of 300 Leader Dr. Williamsport, died Tuesday, October 19, 2010 in Manor Care North Nursing Home where he resided since March. Previously, he was a resident of Fritzingertown Nursing Home, Drumms. Angelo was born on Tuesday, April 8, 1924 in Berwick one of nine children of Bonafucio and Irene Necchrini Bafile. Angelo was honorably discharged...


