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THE DALLAS POST
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OBITUARIES
ADAMS - Kathleen M. “Kathy,” 69, of
Shavertown, died Friday, Aug. 16, 2013, at
her home.
She was born on July 3, 1944, raised
in Wilkes-Barre, and was a graduate of
E.L. Meyers High School, class of 1962.
Following high school, she went on to fur-
ther her education at the former Wilkes-
Barre Business College, graduating in
1963.
In 1977, she attended Penn State
niversity, where she took real estate
courses with the aspiration of becoming a
Realtor in her later years.
Prior to her retirement, she was
employed for 27 years as a supervisor of
data operations for the Social Security
Administration. Following her retirement,
she served for two years as president of
the National Association of Retired Federal
Employees (NARFE).
She was member of St. Therese Roman
Catholic Church, Shavertown where she
served as an Extraordinary Minister of the
Eucharist for more than 10 years and also
served as a CCD instructor for three years.
She served as president of the Women’s
Auxiliary of St. Conrad's Society, Wilkes-
Barre for more than 20 years. She was a
longtime member of the Elk’s Lodge 109,
Pringle, where she held various offices
throughout the years.
Surviving are her husband, Joseph A.
Adams, to whom she was married 49 years;
her children, Kathleen Pellegrin, of East
Stroudsburg; and Thomas, of Hanover
Township; five grandchildren; a brother,
John P. Conwell, of Hanover Township; sis-
ters, Patricia Conwell, of Oklahoma; Judy
dler, of Mechanicsburg; nieces and neph-
WS.
COREY - Joseph M. , 44, of Harveys
Lake, died suddenly on Sunday, Aug. 11,
2013, at Penn State Hershey Medical
Center in Hershey.
He was born in Wilkes-Barre on Nov.
7, 1968, and was a graduate of Coughlin
High School. He received his bachelor of
science degree from Penn State University
and a master of science degree from The
University of Scranton.
He spent his career at the United
Methodist Homes, beginning as an activi-
ties director and ending as a vice presi-
dent/administrator at the Tunkhannock
Campus.
He was a member of Our Lady of Victory
Church in Harveys Lake.
Surviving are his wife of 20 years, Lesley
Anne Corey, Harveys Lake; children, Jacob,
Zachary and Hailey; mother, Ann Corey,
Dallas; sisters, Terri Gorman, Laflin;
Jackie Chovanes, Macungie; Stephanie
Corey-Marks, Redwood City, Calif.; nieces
and nephews.
Memorial donations to the United
Methodist Homes Resident Support Fund,
50 W. Tioga St., Tunkhannock, PA 18657.
KESTER - Edward William, 86, of
Harveys Lake, died on Sunday, Aug. 18,
2013, at the residence of his daughter in
Centermoreland.
He was born in Courtdale, and was a
graduate of Wyoming Seminary and “The
King’s College” Delaware.
He was a math teacher at Dallas High
School.
Surviving are a daughter, Sue Horton,
Centermoreland; two grandchildren; sev-
eral great-grandchildren; brother, Roland,
Chesterfield, Va.; two nephews.
Memorial donations to Hospice of the
Sacred Heart, c/o 600 Baltimore Drive,
Suite 7, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702 or to
Eaton Baptist Church.
NORRIS - Dawn Marie, died Thursday,
Aug. 16. 2013.
She was born in Wilkes Barre on Feb.
@: of Tunkhannock; and Terrie
for McDonald's Restaurant, Shavertown.
She was a member of the Back Mountain
Harvest Assembly Church, Trucksville.
Surviving are her sons, Chris, Dallas;
Kevin, Shavertown; and Joshua, Dallas;
two grandchildren; her husband, Charles
Norris, Shavertown; her mother and
stepfather, Mary Ann and Ronald Strohl,
Shavertown; brothers, Raymond Gibbons,
Dallas; and James Gibbons, Odenton, Md.;
stepsister, Lori Zighnicky, Dickson City;
aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cous-
ins.
RICKEY - Michael J., 64, of Christian
Street, Nanticoke, died Monday, Aug. 12,
2013, at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital,
where he was a patient for nine days.
He was born on March 31, 1949, in
Wilkes-Barre, attended St. Jude Parochial
School, Mountain Top, and graduated from
Crestwood High School, class of 1967.
He was a veteran of the Vietnam War,
having served in the U.S. Army from 1967
to 1970. He received the Vietnam Service
Medal with two campaign credits and the
Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal with
60 devices, among others. He also served
in Korea and was honorably discharged
with the rank of specialist 4.
He had been employed at CertainTeed,
Mountain Top, for 30 years, retiring in
2010.
He was a member of Sweet Valley
Church of Christ.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Vanessa Kauffman, with whom he would
have celebrated 30 years of marriage
on Sept. 24, 2013; sons, Christopher,
Minnesota; Calvin, Nanticoke; daughter,
Candice Miller, Bardstown, Ky.; three
grandchildren; sister, Marcia Kafrissen,
Wilkes-Barre; an aunt, nieces, nephews
and cousins.
Memorial donations to Sweet Valley
Church of Christ; or to the SPCA, 524 E.
Main St., Fox Hill Road, Wilkes-Barre, PA
18702.
RITTS - Marie E., 94, of Dallas,
died Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2013, at The
Meadows Nursing Center, Dallas.
She was born in Wilkes-Barre and was
a graduate of Dallas High School. She was
employed by Acme Markets as a store
manager for 30 years during World War II.
She was a member of Dallas United
Methodist Church for 70 years.
Surviving are a niece and a nephew,
a grandniece and grandnephew, great-
grandnieces and great-grandnephews; and
a cousin. :
THOMPSON - Kathryn M., 74, of
Noxen, died on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013.
She was born in Bellefonte on March 5,
1939, and worked in the former Ro-Nox
dress factory for most of her life.
Surviving are her husband, Elwood
Thompson Sr.; daughter, Betty Ellen
Endress, of Wilkes-Barre; son, Kevin
Mintzer, of Tunkhannock; stepsons,
Bryan Thompson, of Moosic; and Elwood
Thompson Jr.,, of Tunkhannock; sisters,
Eleanore Cole, of Noxen; Evelyn Robison,
of Arizona; and Sara Weber, of Tyrone;
many grandchildren and great-grandchil-
dren.
TIPPETT - Dorothy A. Tippett, 89, of
Shavertown, died Wednesday, Aug. 15,
2013.
She was born in Wilkes-Barre and
attended E. L. Meyers High School,
Wilkes-Barre.
She was an active member of Shavertown
United Methodist Church and its Ruth’s
Circle.
Surviving are her children, June L.
Curran, Danville; William J., Kunkletown;
and Scot A., Shavertown; three grandchil-
dren, three great-grandchildren, nieces and
nephews.
Participating in the Friends Feeding Friends Campaign from Dallas Sch
ool District are, from left, seated, Wycallis Principal Tom Traver,
Special Education Director Dawn Keifer, Superintendent Frank Galicki and Technology Director Bill Gartrell. Standing, Assistant Principal
Brian Bradshaw, Friends Feeding Friends Co-Chairs Barb Roberts and Donna Davies, Elementary Principal Paul Reinert, Building and
Grounds Supervisor Mark Kraynack, Middle School Principal Tom Duffy and High School Principal Jeff Shaffer.
Friends Feeding Friends
In keeping with its
“Year of the Volunteer”
theme, the 2013 Dallas
Harvest Festival will
collaborate with the
Dallas School District
and the Shavertown
and Dallas locations of
Thomas’ Family Markets
to help collect much-
needed food items for
the Back Mountain
Food Pantry through its
Friends Feeding Friends
Campaign.
This year’s festivalgoers
are encouraged to bring a
non-perishable item with
them to drop off at the
Friends Feeding Friends
booth at the festival set
for noon to 5 p.m. on
Sunday, Sept. 15.
Founded in 1977, the
Back Mountain Food
Pantry serves clients
within the Dallas Area
and Lake-Lehman school
district boundaries.
Located in Trucksville
United Methodist
Church, the pantry has
approximately 232 cli-
ents, serving an average
of 20 prequalified families
each week who receive
as many as 12 bags of
Campaign benefits food pantry
Participating in the Friends Feeding Friends Campaign from Thomas’ Food Market are, from left, Back
Mountain Food Pantry President Rev. Roger Griffith, Friends Feeding Frieds Co-Chair Barb Ro berts,
Thomas’ Co-Owner Chris Evans and Thomas’ Manager Larry Seward.
grocery items. In 2012,
2,349 individuals from
854 households were pro-
vided for.
The food pantry is now
also supplemented by the
new Food Pantry Garden
provided by The Lands
at Hillside Farms and
maintained by generous
volunteers. As a result,
fresh vegetables are avail-
able as a seasonal benefit
to food pantry clients.
The Dallas Harvest
Festival's Friends Feeding
Friends campaign will
invite Back Mountain
residents, families and
shoppers to donate food
items to the Dallas School
District Classroom Food
Drive, or in convenient
drop-off receptacles at
both Thomas’ Family
Markets from Friday,
Sept. 6 through Friday,
Sept. 13.
The drive will conclude
at the festival on Sept. 15.
UGI donates house
r fire training
: Firefighters from the
pA Northmoreland Township
Volunteer Fire Department are
shown training on a vacant
house donated by UGI Energy
Services (UGIES). Firefighters
used the structure, which had
been purchased by UGIES as
part of its Auburn Pipeline proj-
ect, to practice techniques to
help prepare for real emergen-
cies. UGIES recently distributed
a total donation of $40,000
among seven fire departments
in Northeastern Pennsylvania to
assist with emergency prepared-
ness. The fire departments that
received donations serve the
municipalities along the approxi-
Memorial donations to the Shavertown
United Methodist Church, 163 N. Pioneer
Ave., Shavertown, PA 18708.
1964, and was a 1982 graduate of the
&. Side Vocational-Technical School,
Pringle. She was employed as a manager
Students
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and the Mock Trial Club at
the high school have been
trying to get the appeals
court to come to the high
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supervisor, has mixed feel-
ings about the trial.
“As a mother, I think the
case is out of place any-
where near a school but
they signed up for it and
I guess they think it’s a
great opportunity to have it
here,” she said.
While Martin and
Gruelick hesitatingly agree
there may be some educa-
tional merit to having the
trials at the high school,
Dallas Principal Jeff Shaffer
is sure of it.
“My job is to make sure
that kids have an under-
standing of the legal pro-
is,” he said. “As a father,
@®.- I understand the
motions everyone feels
when you hear the name
Sandusky. But then, you
school for a long time and
he hopes the school board
will approve the use of the
school for the court trials at
its next meeting.
“The school board has
the final say on this use of
the high school,” he said.
Dallas High School
seniors will have a choice
to sit in on the proceedings
as part of their Problems
of Democracy and
Government and Politics
classes, said Shaffer.
Underclassmen can
attend on a period-
by-period basis deter-
mined by their teachers.
Presiding justices Panella,
Sally Updyke Mundy and
William Platt will have
‘Monday, Sept. 9 in
the board room of the
administration building.
‘Members of the public
will have an opportunity
to voice their opinions
onthesubjectof
appeals court hearings
being held at the senior
high school.
lunch with students and
a there will be a one-hour
veterans program at 9 a.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 17.
The sessions are open to
the public. Security, search
and surveillance will be
enforced while court is in
session at the school.
mate 30-mile Auburn Pipeline
route in Wyoming and Luzerne
counties.
Carousel
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approximate 70-foot pavil-
ion. No date has been set
for construction to begin.
Funds are needed to
move the project forward.
Tax deductible donations
are being accepted via
The Luzerne Foundation,
140 Main St. Luzerne, PA
18709. Checks should be
written to The Luzerne
Foundation and referenced
that the funds should be
directed to The Brass Ring
Fund.
The Brass Ring Fund
hopes to form a board of
directors in the near future
and to welcome volunteers
with the same passion for
preserving local history,
who would enjoy helping
to open the carousel to the
public once again.
Inquiries can be made via
email at brassringfund@
gmail.com or by calling Liz
Martin at 362-2890.
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