Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Families in Bloomsburg

Serving Bloomsburg, PA and surrounding area

Carl E. Derr

Carl E. Derr

Jan 23, 2011

Carl E. Derr, age 71, of East Hillcrest Drive, Bloomsburg died on Sunday, January 23, 2010 a resident of Orangeville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Carl was born on Sunday, June 11, 1939 in Bloomsburg, a son of the late Myron and Jean Keyser Derr. He was a member of the 1957 Graduating Class of the Bloomsburg High School and also...

Earl "Sam" B. Huntington

Earl "Sam" B. Huntington

Jan 16, 2011

Earl "Sam" B. Huntington, age 83, of Shuman Street in Catawissa, died on Sunday, January 16, 2011, a resident of Bloomsburg Health Care. Sam was a resident his home on Shuman Street for over 31 years and previously of Mill Street in Catawissa Sam was born on Wednesday, September 14, 1927 in Bloomsburg, a son of the late Herman and...

Cooper Jaxson Karaffa

Cooper Jaxson Karaffa

Jan 15, 2011

Cooper Jaxson Karaffa, the nine month old son of Stephen and Jennifer Kingston Karaffa of Fourth Street in Bloomsburg, died suddenly on Saturday, January 15, 2011 in the Geisinger Medical Center in Danville. Cooper was born on Friday, March 26, 2010 in Geisinger Medical Center. In addition to his parents, survivors include two sisters, Kaitlin and Sierra and a brother,...

Diane R. Magagna

Diane R. Magagna

Jan 8, 2011

On January 8, Diane Ringawa Magagna of Friar Road in Sherwood Village, Bloomsburg died peacefully at her home after a lengthy illness, surrounded by her loving children. She passed from this life in the same manner in which she lived it: with extraordinary grace, remarkable courage, and a loving heart. Diane was born in Nanticoke on June 7th, 1940, the...

Doris D. Good

Doris D. Good

Jan 7, 2011

Doris D. Good, age 84, of Old Berwick Road, Bloomsburg died on Friday, January 07, 2011 a resident at Bloomsburg Health Care Center. Doris was born on Wednesday, December 15, 1926 in Bloomsburg, a daughter of the late William A. and Odessa Boyer Deeter. She was a member of the 1944 Graduating Class of the Bloomsburg High School. She was...

Ruth N. Fedder

Ruth N. Fedder

Jan 5, 2011

Ruth N. Fedder, age 74, of Iron Street in Bloomsburg, died on Wednesday, January 05, 2011 a patient of the Bloomsburg Hospital following her admittance on December 15. Ruth was born on January 9, 1936 in Milton, a daughter of the late Samuel and Martha Lucas Gensel. She was a member of the 1954 Graduating Class of the Danville High...

Stephen A. Tloczynski

Stephen A. Tloczynski

Jan 3, 2011

Stephen A. Tloczynski, age 55, of Bloomsburg, died on Monday, January 3, 2011 a patient of Geisinger Medical Center in Danville where he was admitted on December 30. Stephen was born on Thursday, November 17, 1955 in Ashland, a son of Stephen J. Tloczynski of Mt. Carmel and the late Mary L. Hoffman Tloczynski. He was a member of the...

Sara M. Girton

Sara M. Girton

Jan 2, 2011

Sara M. Girton, age 58, of East Street, Bloomsburg died Sunday, January 02, 2011 at the Bloomsburg Health Care Center where she was admitted on December 28. Sara was born in Bloomsburg on Friday, May 30, 1952, a daughter of the late James G. and Frances Arlene Evans Hunsinger. She was a 1970 graduate of the Bloomsburg High School. Sara...

Jacqueline L. Mcbride

Jacqueline L. Mcbride

Jan 1, 2011

Jacqueline L. McBride, age 81, of 45 Knights Drive Bloomsburg, died on Saturday, January 1, 2011 at her home. She was born January 8, 1929 in Bloomsburg a daughter of the late Vernon and Alma Minnick Albert. Jacqueline attended the Bloomsburg Schools and was a member of the Canby Lutheran Church of Mt. Pleasant Twp. She was preceded in death...

Naomi B. Letteer

Naomi B. Letteer

Jan 1, 2011

Naomi B. Letteer, age 94, formerly of Carroll Park, Bloomsburg, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, January 01, 2011, a resident of Columbia Montour Home Hospice at Maria Hall in Danville. Naomi was born on Friday, February 25, 1916 in Buckhorn, a daughter of the late Harry R. and Margaret Brobst Kline. She was a member of the...

Judith A. Meegan

Judith A. Meegan

Jan 1, 2011

Judith A. Meegan, age 71, of Ft. Jenkins Lane, Bloomsburg, died on Saturday, January 1, 2011 in the Geisinger Medical Center where she was admitted on December 21. Judith was born on Saturday, February 4, 1939 in Buffalo, NY, a daughter of the late Donald B. and Virginia Horst Wall. In 1957, Judith graduated from the Verona High School in...

Woodrow "Woody" W. Wolfe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....