Obituaries by LocationEdward Anderson
April 22, 2003
Edward Y. Anderson, 75, of Mehoopany RR1, PA, passed away
on Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at Tyler Memorial Hospital in Tunkhannock.
Born in Tunkhannock on June 1, 1927, he was the son of the late Miles and Beulah Mae VanderMark Anderson. He and his wife, the former Marion Burgess, celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary on Sept. 22, 2002.
Mr. Anderson was employed as a freight agent in Tunkhannock and Mehoopany on the Lehigh Valley Railroad and ConRail.
He was of the Baptist faith and was a born-again Christian.
A graduate of Tunkhannock High School, he was a member and former fire chief of the FWM Fire Company, Mehoopany; member of the FWM Ambulance and Fire Police, FWM Baseball and Athletic Association, of which he was treasurer for over 30 years. He loved to spend time with his family, especially his grandchildren. He was an avid hunter and fisherman and had several artistic hobbies.
Survivors include his wife, Marion; one daughter, Sheila Faux of Mehoopany; four sons, Ed, Jr. and Terry of Mehoopany, Brad of Dallas and Kevin of Hughesville; seven brothers, Miles, Jr., John, Roy, Ralph and Lyle of Tunkhannock, Raymond of Meshoppen and Nelson of Easton; four sisters, Lois Button of Dallas, Shirley Weaver of Huson, MT, Thelma Dailey of Scranton and Beulah Barron of Washington, NJ; eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by four sisters, Anna Mae and Emma Vivian Anderson, Ruth Hartman and Naomi Wilsey and one brother, Robert D. Anderson, Sr.
Funeral services will be held at the Harding-Litwin Funeral Home, 123 W. Tioga St., Tunkhannock, on Saturday, April 26 at 1 p.m. with the Rev. Gary Myers of the Biblical Baptist Church in Meshoppen presiding. Interment will be in the Vaughan Hill Cemetery, Meshoppen.
Friends may call on Friday, April 25 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the FWM Fire and Ambulance Association in Mehoopany.
Albert Lamb
April 13, 2003
Albert C. (Skeet) Lamb, age 74, of Wyalusing, PA, passed away on Sunday, April 13, 2003, surrounded by his loving and devoted family at the Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre.
He was born on July 11, 1928 in Troy Township, a son of the late Albert Winfield and Adis Lattimer Lamb.
On Feb. 19, 1950, Albert marriage the former Ruth Glosenger in Sayre. It was a loving and devoted marriage that lasted 46 years. He was preceded in death by his wife, Ruth on Dec. 10, 1996.
Skeet and Ruth moved from Sayre to Wyalusing in 1956.
He owned and operated a service station in Wyalusing for many years. He offered O.J.T. (on-the-job training) for local youth at his station.
Mr. Lamb was a member of the Wyalusing United Methodist Church. His other memberships included: Wyalusing Masonic Lodge No. 618 F&AM, where he served as a past master and lodge treasurer; the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Valley of Williamsport, the Wyalusing Lions Club and was president and director and recipient of the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award. He was also an active member of the Wyalusing Fire and Ambulance Associations for many years.
His hobbies included softball, bowling, trout fishing and hunting.
He especially enjoyed time spent in Penn Yan, NY at the lake with his family and many friends.
Surviving are his children and their spouses, Pamela S. Lamb of Lairdsville, Andrea J. and Emery Thorn, Sr. of Laceyville, Vickie A. and Raymond Morris of Quicks Bend, Diana J. Lamb of Wyalusing, Jeffrey A. and Dawn Lamb of Stevensville, Allyson K. and Kenneth Brooks of Stevensville, Gregory C. and Jeanne Lamb of Bakersfield, CA; 12 grandchildren: Emery Thorn, Jr., Anthony K. Lamb, Darcie L. Welsted, Dakotah L. Brown, Lindsay L. Brown, J. Andrew Lamb, Rachell T. Lamb, Jonathan M. Lamb, Casey L. Ott, Bobbi Jo Ott, Kayla L. Burnight and Timothy J. Burnight; two great-granddaughters, Olivia Ruth Lamb and Madison Alexis Welsted; a sister, Doris Craig; a brother, Roger Lamb; several sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law and many nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents and wife, he was preceded in death by a brother, Samuel Lamb and a sister, Harriet Fay.
Funeral services were held on Wednesday, April 16 at 2 p.m. at the Wyalusing United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Russell C. Pierce, his pastor, officiating.
Interment followed in the Bradford County Memorial Park, Luthers Mills.
Friends and family called on Tuesday, April 15 at the McHenry Funeral Home, 106 Church St., Wyalusing, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A Masonic funeral service was held on Tuesday evening by members of the Wyalusing Lodge #618 F&AM at 8 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Wyalusing United Methodist Church, Wyalusing Lions Club (charity fund) or the Wyalusing Masonic Lodge #618 F&AM in Mr. Lamb’s memory.
Peter Layman
April 7, 2003
Peter Williams Layman, age 98, of Streetsboro, OH, formerly of Hollenback, PA, passed away on Monday, April 7, 2003 at the Anna Maria of Aurora Nursing Home in Aurora, OH where he had resided since January 2001.
Born Sept. 22, 1904 in Terry Township, Bradford County, PA, Peter was the third child of Frederick and Eva Williams Layman. After several years of childhood illnesses, he completed eighth grade at the one-room Vial Hill School in 1920. He drove a Model-T Ford truck, hauling the family dairy’s milk to the Wyalusing Creamery on his way to Wyalusing High School from which he graduated in the 17-member class of 1924.
The following school year, he returned to the Vial Hill School and taught all eight grades. In the fall of 1925, he took additional math courses at Towanda High School to meet entrance requirements for the architecture program in Penn State’s College of Engineering. Prior to starting his freshman year, he worked as a clerk and helper at the Wyalusing Hotel during the winter and summer of 1926. He described it as a "busy time" during which the sections of U.S. Route 6 from Wysox to Wyalusing, and on to Laceyville were first paved with concrete.
While at Penn State, Peter earned his room and board by working in fraternity dining halls. He was on the art staff of the La Vie yearbook, and was elected to Scarab, a national architecture honorary society and Pi Gamma Alpha, a fine arts honorary society. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Design in 1930 in the midst of the Great Depression.
With virtually no employment available in the field of architecture, he worked as a draftsman for Whipple Brothers of Laceyville in the summer of 1930, prior to taking a teaching position with the private Lutheran Tressler Orphan’s School in Loysville, PA, where he continued for five years.
Peter met Kathryn Gamble at her sister, Ethlyn’s wedding in 1926, and they were marriage five years to the day on June 25, 1931. Both Peter and Kathryn taught at the Perry County School until moving to Boston, MA in 1935, where Peter studied and taught in the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard University. He was awarded the Edward R. Bacon Fellowship for two years of independent travel and study of art in Europe.
He sailed to Cherbourg, France on the H.M.S. Queen Mary in August of 1939. As he arrived in Paris, Hitler invaded Poland and World War II began. His planned travel to Istanbul, Turkey, to assist another Harvard Bacon Fellow with obtaining plaster copies of mosaics from Aya Sophia, ended abruptly when all passengers were ordered off the train in Lyon, France. Due to the political uncertainties and imminent danger, he had to return to the United States. After enduring five weeks of severe communication problems and restrictive travel conditions, he was approved for return passage on "cot #7" in the Playroom of the S.S. Manhattan.
Upon his arrival in New York City on October 8, 1939, he learned all his letters to Kathryn had arrived only a day earlier; they had been delayed for censoring by the French government. He continued studying at Harvard and was offered a teaching position for the summer of 1941, only to have it cancelled when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Early in 1942, Peter and Kathryn returned to the Wyalusing area, bought a farm in Hollenback, where their son, Scott was born. While working available hourly jobs (his summer haying job paid a total of $22) he also raised chickens, pigs and calves while developing a small dairy herd. By 1948, realizing the farm was not large enough scale to continue, he sold the dairy herd and returned to Harvard where he completed his Master’s Degree in 1949.
Peter was next employed as an instructor with the Bradford County teachers of the G.I. "On-Farm" program which assisted veterans in becoming self-sufficient farmers. In 1950, he became Head Instructor with full responsibility for the program for Bradford and Sullivan Counties. In 1953, he was offered a position teaching art in the Sayre Area Schools.
To achieve public school teaching certification, he attended three summer school sessions at Penn State and took additional short-courses. In 1958, he took a similar position with the Montrose School System and continued there until his retirement in 1967. In both Sayre and Montrose, his responsibilities included work with school yearbook staffs, poster contests, preparation of stage scenery, etc. His greatest satisfactions came from the development of his "elective art" students, some of whom continued their study toward careers in art.
He was a member of local, state and national professional educational and art associations, and continually enriched his interests and skills in art media through workshops, short courses and private study. Stone and wood sculpture and ceramics were studied during his early years of retirement.
During the late 1940’s and into the 1950’s, Peter served 11 years on the Wilmot Township School Board, serving as secretary for the last eight years. He was especially proud of being instrumental in the initial merging of the Wyalusing, New Albany and Laceyville Schools into the Wyalusing Valley School System. They were interesting times, as all of the rural one-room schools were closed within a few years…a very unpopular move in some communities. His strong and abiding interest in the system and its students continued throughout his life.
He was a charter member of the Great Books Discussion group that met monthly in Towanda for several years in the 1950s, and was a regular attendee of the Community Concert Series that brought professional musicians to Towanda. Walks in the woods were always a favorite part of Peter and Kathryn’s life; his ten-day Appalachian Trail hike from the Delaware Water Gap to the Susquehanna River at Duncannon with Scott in 1956 intensified his interest in hiking. The trail shelters so impressed him, that he and Scott built a similar stone structure on their farm. It became a source of great enjoyment and many memorable overnights for friends and family alike.
In retirement, Peter and Kathryn enjoyed hiking in the Endless Mountains, as well as longer hikes on the Appalachian Trail in Maine, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia. During the seventies, they enjoyed having one or more of their three young grandchildren stay with them at the farm…the times were always filled with new and unique adventures which enriched the lives of both generations. No travels were more prized than their many journeys to Ohio for birthdays, concerts, church musical programs, scout award ceremonies, marching band competitions, high school and college graduations and marriages of their three grandchildren.
Together, they witnessed their family’s growth, marriages and evolving careers with pride and great satisfaction. Their words of encouragement and enthusiastic interest in family member’s accomplishments are an enduring inspiration.
During Peter’s recent two years as a resident in Ohio, he has been able to know and interact with his five great-grandchildren…a rare privilege and rich heritage for both Peter and his family.
Throughout more than thirty years of retirement, Peter and Kathryn attended hundreds of school events, often traveling to away contests or community events involving local youth. Special recognition of their dedicated support was given in 1994 at the Wyalusing High School Sports Banquet when the announcement was made "In honor of their countless hours of unselfish dedication to the young men and women of our community, tonight we dedicate this gymnasium in their honor as the Layman Gymnasium." The honor was deeply appreciated and a source of much personal satisfaction. Mention of the school’s successes and student achievements always brightened his day.
Significant recent celebrations have included Kathryn’s 100th birthday on January 7, 2000, Peter and Kathryn’s 69th wedding anniversary on June 25, 2000 and Peter’s 98th birthday, with all family members attending on September 22, 2002.
Surviving are: their son, Scott of Kent, OH; three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren: Dr. Martin W. Layman, his wife Margery and daughters, Amanda and Samantha of Chagrin Falls, OH, Eric B. Layman, his wife, Deborah and daughter, Hannah of South Euclid, OH and Karin L. Conroy, husband, Edward, sons, Nathan and Ryan of Uniontown, OH. Nieces and nephews include Nancy G. W. Baker, Dr. Joseph Kast, Frederick Butts and Frederick Landon. Peter was predeceased by his wife, Kathryn, his parents, Frederick C. and Eva Williams Layman; sisters and their husbands, Ethel and Martin Butts and Grace and George Landon; nieces, Barbara Kast, Eva Griffith and Charlotte Urso, and nephews, Eugene Landon and Robert Butts.
The family requests that memorial donations be made in Peter’s name to the "Kathryn and Peter Layman Scholarship Fund" care of The Peoples State Bank, PO Box 217, Wyalusing, PA 18853.
A memorial service will be held at the P. Dean Homer Funeral Home in Wyalusing at a date to be announced.
Chuck Love
April 15, 2003
Mr. L. Chuck Love, age 42, of RR2, Box 317, Meshoppen, PA (South Auburn) passed away on Tuesday morning, April 15, 2003 at the Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, after an illness.
Born in Montrose on April 29, 1960, he was the son of Charles M., Jr. and Vera M. Norton Love of South Auburn.
Chuck was a graduate of the Elk Lake High School, Class of 1978. While at Elk Lake, he was a member of their baseball team and participated in the school plays, was a member of the school band and chorus and was his class valedictorian. He was a graduate of Penn State University, Class of 1982 and while at Penn State, was a member of the Penn State Glee Club. He was also an avid Penn State football fan.
He was employed for many years for Shamrock Auctions in Meshoppen, working at their auctions and with their computer systems.
He was a member of the South Auburn United Methodist Church, serving as their pianist for over 30 years. He was also their youth group leader and church treasurer. Chuck was a charter member of the Endless Mountains Chorus and a member of the Montrose Harmony Men. He was a past member of the Bonavita Construction and Maplewood Lanes softball teams, playing in the South Montrose Softball League. He was a past member of the Wyalusing American Legion baseball team, and most recently, was a member of the South Auburn Community Relay for Life Team.
Besides his parents, he is survived by his wife of 13 years, the former Tammy A. Lott, of South Auburn; a brother, Steve J. Love, South Auburn; his father-in-law and mother-in-law, J. Rexford, Jr. and Martha Lott of Auburn Center; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Joseph R., III and Amy Lott and Karen and Grant Adams, all of Auburn Center; also a niece and three nephews; many aunts, uncles and cousins.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, April 19 at 11 a.m. from the South Auburn United Methodist Church, with Rev. Beverly Murphy of the church, officiating. Interment will be in the Jersey Hill Cemetery. Family and friends are invited to call at the Sheldon Funeral Home, Main St., Meshoppen, on Friday, April 18 from 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m. The Endless Mountains Chorus will pass in review at the funeral home on Friday evening at 8 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, those wishing, may make memorial donations to the South Auburn Community Relay for Life Team, c/o Mrs. Luella Ruhf, RR2, Box 243, Meshoppen, PA 18630 or to the South Auburn United Methodist Church, c/o Mrs. Karen Fuller, RR2, Box 317 H.H., Meshoppen, PA 18630.
John Lyman
April 10, 2003
John Marcy Lyman, age 83, of RR1, Box 252, Springville, PA, passed away Thursday morning, April 10, 2003 at his home on Lymanstead Farm. His family has lived on this homestead for 200 years.
Born in Lymanville on Aug. 23, 1919, he was the son of the late Albert Root and Nellie Marcy Lyman.
He marriage the former Clara Beeney on Oct. 3, 1945.
He was the owner of Lymanstead Farm and was a lifetime member of the Lymanville United Methodist Church and a member of the Lemon United Methodist Church.
A graduate of Springville High School, Class of 1937, he also attended Delhi State College of Agriculture. An Army Air Corps veteran of WWII, he served as Tech. Sgt. in the European Theatre with the 68th Bombardment Squadron. His plane was shot down over France and he was a POW for over a year and was awarded a Purple Heart.
Mr. Lyman was a life member of the VFW Post #383, Elk Lake and American Legion Post 154, Montrose. He was also a member of the Tunkhannock Moose Lodge #1296, the Susquehanna County Beekeeper’s Association and a life member of National Holstein Association. He developed one of the first registered Holstein herds in the area.
He was a member of the Lynn Cemetery Association, life member of the NRA, member of PA Trappers’ Association and a former member of Elk Lake School Board of Directors.
Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Linda Litwin, Factoryville, Carol Lyman, Springville, Esther Clarke, Meshoppen; seven grandchildren; one great-grandson and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by three sisters, Helen Palmer, Ruth Cook and Esther Stevens.
Funeral services were held on Sunday, April 13 at 2 p.m. at the Harding-Litwin Funeral Home, 123 W. Tioga St., Tunkhannock, with the Rev. Edwin A. Simmons of the Lemon United Methodist Church and the Rev. J. Daniel Herron of the Meshoppen United Methodist Church, officiating. Interment was in the Lynn Cemetery, Springville Township, with military services conducted by members of the VFW and American Legion.
Friends and family called at the funeral home on Saturday, April 12 from 5 to 8 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Lynn Cemetery Association, c/o Chuck Stone, RR1, Springville, PA 18844.
John P. McCormack
April 13, 2003
John P. McCormack, 89, of Forest Lake, PA, died Sunday, April 13, 2003 at Wilson Memorial Hospital, Johnson City, NY.
Born June 28, 1913 in Shamokin, he was the son of the late Peter and Katherine Lynch McCormack. He was marriage to Doris E. Burr McCormack, who survives.
He was a retired electrician from NYSEG.
In addition to his wife, survivors include daughters and son-in-law, Lynne McCormack, Bellefonte, Faith McCormack and Gerry Twombly, Lakeland, TN; granddaughters, Faith Drewry, Portland, OR, Maci Twombly, Lakeland, TN; sisters and brothers-in-law, Ruth and Chuck Spaulding, Ormond Beach, FL, Peggy and Art Murphy, Sacramento, CA; a brother, Dick McCormack, Richmond, VA; nieces and nephews.
Private services will be held at the convenience of the family.
Letters of sympathy may be directed to Mrs. Doris E. McCormack, RR2, Box 96, Montrose, PA 18801.
If desired, the family suggests memorial contributions be made to the Forest Lake Volunteer Fire Company, PO Box 346, Montrose, PA 18801.
Bartron Funeral Home, Inc., a Selected Independent Funeral Home, has been entrusted with the arrangements.
Helen Richlin
April 14, 2003
Mrs. Helen Shilkoskie Richlin, age 93, of Forks Township, Sullivan County, PA passed away on Monday, April 14, 2003 at the Highlands in Laporte.
Helen was born Jan. 28, 1910 in West Wyoming, daughter of the late Francis and Nellie Ostrosky Shilkoskie.
Helen worked for the former Weldon Manufacturing Company in Lopez, and later the Towanda Silk Mill and Dushore Lingerie in Dushore. She retired from the Endicott Johnson Mfg. Co. of Mildred in 1971. She was marriage to Martin J. Richlin of Forks Township, who predeceased her in 1983.
Helen lived in Forks Township most of her life and was an accomplished gardener and an expert in crocheting.
Helen was a member of St. Basil’s Church, Dushore and a member of the former Altar & Rosary Society.
Surviving are a son and daughter-in-law; John M. and Elaine Richlin, Dushore; daughters and sons-in-law, Barbara and Alfred Place, Meshoppen, Betty Miller, Elmira, NY, Margaret and Bernard Fedroff, Montoursville, Maxine Weaver, Dushore, Sylvia Richlin, Roseville, CA; a sister, Leona Richlin, Dushore; 15 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by two sons-in-law: Ellery Weaver, Jr. of Dushore, and David Miller of Elmira, NY; three sisters, Stella Pinkowski of Nanticoke, Sister Honoria Paluskie (Franciscan Sister), Marian Shilkoskie of Nanticoke and a brother, John Shilkoskie of Dushore.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Wednesday, April 16, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Basil’s Church, Dushore, with the Rev. Gerard L. Hawley, her grandson, pastor of St. John Neumann Catholic Church, Hawley, presiding. Interment was in St. Basil’s Cemetery .
There was no visitation and the family provided their own flowers, Memorials are directed to the St. Basil’s Restoration Fund, PO Box 307, Dushore, PA 18614.
Funeral arrangements were under the P. Dean Homer Funeral Home, 206 Water St., Dushore, PA.
Earl Tinna
April 15, 2003
Mr. Earl A. (Smokey) Tinna, age 77, of RR2, Box 2301, Laceyville, PA, formerly of Camptown, passed away on Tuesday morning, April 15, 2003 at the Tyler Memorial Hospital in Tunkhannock.
Born in Sayre on Aug. 3, 1925, he was the son of the late James and Florence Brown Tinna. Mr. Tinna was the husband of the late Ina Berkley Tinna, who passed away in 1982.
Smokey was employed as a truck driver for many years, driving for Dutch Repsher Trucking of Laceyville, and he was also employed by Frank Newhart Quarries, until his retirement in 1986.
In his spare time, he enjoyed helping his family and his many neighbors and friends. He also loved and enjoyed being surrounded by his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
He is survived by his daughters and their husbands, Linda and Carl Barnes of Laceyville, Dena and Avery Colegrove of Laceyville and Cindy Tinna and her special friend, Paul Walters of Laceyville; a son and his wife, Ellis and Susan Berkley of Spring Hill; a brother, Gerald (Tim) Tinna of Mehoopany and six sisters, Jean Setser and Lola Remington, both of Tunkhannock, Helen Wells and Margaret Carney, both of Meshoppen, Ruth cook of Tunkhannock and Frances Mallery of Florida; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews and special friends, Ruby and John Boyanowski of Camptown. Besides his wife, he was preceded in death by twin daughters, Lisa and Laura Tinna in 1964; a granddaughter, Krissy Barnes in 2002 and brothers, Kenneth Tinna and Harold (Bim) Tinna, Sr. in 1996.
At Mr. Tinna’s request, there will be no funeral services. Calling hours will be held at the Sheldon Funeral Home, Main St., Laceyville, on Thursday evening, April 17 from 6 until 9 p.m. Private graveside services will be in the Lacey St. Cemetery in Laceyville at the convenience of the family, with the Rev. Beverly Murphy of the South Auburn United Methodist Church, officiating.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Laceyville Ambulance Association, PO Box 274, Laceyville, PA 18623.
