Recent Obituaries
Lancaster, PA and surrounding areas
Michael Francis Posey
May 17, 2015
Michael Francis Posey, 25, of Lancaster, Penn., died at home on Sun., May 17, 2015, of complications from pneumonia. He leaves behind a loving wife, Jessica (Schreiber) Posey. Together, they would have celebrated their third anniversary on June 4.
Michael, who was born in Houston and raised in Katy, Texas, was a 2008 graduate of Morton Ranch...
Minh Thi Nguyen
May 17, 2015
Minh Thi Nguyen, 90, of Lancaster, PA died on Sunday, May 17, 2015 at home. She was the wife of the late Nguyen Loc. Born in Hanoi, Vietnam on September 1, 1924 she was a daughter of the late Nguyen Ngoc Hoan and Bui Thi Ngo. Mrs. Nguyen was a homemaker and member of the Vietnamese Alliance Church. She...
Mark Thompson
May 17, 2015
Local projectionist, concessions manager and lovable curmudgeon Mark Thompson died at his home Sunday evening, May 17, 2015 after a brief illness. Mark was the reluctant face of Millersville's Point of View Cinema, a semi-mythical place where multitudes of Lancastrians encountered touchstone films that changed the way they looked at their world. To friends, the projection booth of the...
Lucille M. Mock
May 17, 2015
Lucille M. Mock, 71 of Millersville, formerly of Reading passed away peacefully on Sunday, May 17, 2015. Born in Reading, she was the daughter of the late William Harold and Eugenia J. (Leszczynski) Mock. She was a graduate of Reading High School and received a Bachelor's degree from Kutztown University. Lucille worked for the Reading Area Community College as...
Constance T. Carpenter
May 16, 2015
Constance T. Carpenter, 83, died at her Manheim Township home on Saturday, May 16, 2015. Born in Philadelphia, she was the daughter of the late George K. and Marie E. (Jacoby) Spetsas. Her husband Richard E. Carpenter died in 1980.
A graduate of Holy Spirit High School in Atlantic City, NJ, Constance was a loving homemaker who...
Amelia Bordeaux
May 16, 2015
Amelia Bordeaux, 99, of Lititz, PA, passed away on Saturday, May 16, 2015 at her home at Landis Homes Retirement Community. Born in Staunton, IL, she was the daughter of the late Angelo and Serafina (Angeli) Frank. Amelia was the wife of the late Gilbert Bordeaux who died December 1994. Amelia moved from St. Louis, MO to Philadelphia, PA...
Kathleen (Durham) Sawutz
May 15, 2015
Kathleen (Durham) Sawutz, 59, of Lancaster, PA, passed away on May 15, 2015 unexpectedly of natural causes at her home. Born in Huntington, WV, she was the daughter of the late Joseph A. Durham and Helen L. (Davis) Hostetter. Kathleen received a Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology from Marshall University, Huntington, WV in 1978 and became a Specialist...
Richard R. Pugh
May 13, 2015
Richard R. Pugh, 85, of Lancaster, died on Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at the Lebanon VA Medical Center. Born in Somerset, Richard was the son of the late Richard E. and Pearl M. (Freidline) Pugh. On September 20, 1953, he married Phyllis J. (Smith) Pugh at St. John Evangelical and Reformed Church, Johnstown, PA. After 58 years of marriage,...
June M. Coldren
May 13, 2015
June M. Coldren, 75, formerly of Lititz, passed away at her daughter's Lancaster home surrounded by her loving family on Wednesday, May 13, 2011. Born in Columbia, she was the daughter of the late John Harris and Carrie Mae (Peters) Eckman. June's husband of 51 years, Ronald E. Coldren, Sr. died in 2011.
June worked as a...
Kim Nguyen
May 13, 2015
Kim Nguyen, 73, of Lancaster, PA, passed away on May 13, 2015 at his home surrounded by his family. Born in Ninh Binh, Vietnam, he was the son of the late Kiem and Hoa Nguyen. Kim was the husband of Thanh Thuy Le. Kim retired from Dart Container as a packer. He was a member of St. Anthony of...
Rodger A. Migdon
May 12, 2015
Rodger A. Migdon, 76, of Lancaster, PA died Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at Lancaster General Hospital. Born in Lancaster he was a son of the late Carl and Elsie C. (Hess) Migdon. Mr. Migdon was a 1957 graduate of Manheim Twp. High School and was a huge car enthusiast. Rodger was the owner of Migdon Pontiac in Strasburg and...
Chester L. Bentley Ii
May 11, 2015
Chester L. Bentley II, 88, passed away peacefully on Monday, May 11, 2015 at St. Anne's Retirement Village. Born and raised in Lancaster, PA, Chester was the son of the late Chester L. Bentley and Florence Bastendorf Bentley. He was the husband of the late Romaine Studer Bentley, who preceded him in death in 2003. They were married 55...
Barry S. Leed
May 11, 2015
Barry S. Leed, 59, of Lancaster, PA, husband of Ann Leed, died on May 11, 2015.
L. Lorraine Smythe
May 11, 2015
L. Lorraine Smythe passed from this life into the presence of her Savior on May 11, 2015. She was 96 years old. Lorraine was born in Lancaster, PA on December 31, 1918, and married her high school sweetheart, Granville D. Smythe on July 31, 1937. To this union two children were born, Granville D. Smythe, Jr. (Charlene) of Longmont,...
Gene C. Burkett
May 11, 2015
Gene C. Burkett, 68 of Crosswinds Drive, Lititz, PA, passed away peacefully at his residence, from complications of multiple myeloma, on Monday, May 11, 2015. Born in Lewiston, NC, he was the husband of Betty Moore Burkett. They would have celebrated their 47th wedding anniversary on May 26. He was the son of the late George A. and Helen...
Richard “Rich” A. Buckreis
May 10, 2015
Richard "Rich" A. Buckreis, 68, of Lititz, passed away Sunday, May 10, 2015 at Landis Homes after a 15 month illness of Lewy Body Dementia. He was the husband of Peg (Auker) Buckreis, celebrating 7 years of marriage. Rich was born in Altoona to the late Robert E. and Sarah Raugh Buckreis. He was retired from Johnson and Johnson...
Barbara Thanasas
May 10, 2015
Barbara Thanasas, 65, of San Juan, PR passed away at Lancaster General Hospital on Sunday, May 10, 2015. Barbara was born in San Juan to the late Adrian Negron and Maria Miranda. After earning her Bachelor's Degree in business, she went on to work as a clerk in medical billing. She was deeply religious and devoted to the Catholic...
Josephine M. “Tiny” (Ottiger) Weaver
May 10, 2015
Josephine M. "Tiny" (Ottiger) Weaver, 97, of Lititz, died Sunday, May 10, 2015, surrounded by her loving family. Born in Lancaster, she was the wife of the late Robert Weaver who died in 1987. She was the daughter of the late Adolph and Marie (Funke) Ottiger. Tiny worked for Warner Lambert in the data processing department for 23 years,...
Raymond C. Hargreaves
May 9, 2015
Raymond C. Hargreaves, 78, died on Saturday, May 9, 2015, at Brethren Village. Born in Scranton, he was the son of the late Raymond T. and Eva Phillips Hargreaves. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Annabelle (Leffelaar), and sons: Ray, husband of Cathy (McGowan) Hargreaves, MD, of Nashville, TN, Kevin Hargreaves of Wyomissing, PA, and Brian,...
Rev. Robert Gordon Young-White
May 8, 2015
Rev. Robert Gordon Young-White, 71, of Lancaster, PA died Friday, May 8, 2015 at Lancaster General Hospital. He was the husband of Pamela (Young) White. Born in Philadelphia, PA on May 30, 1943 he was a son of the late Joseph Rudolph and Mary (Dorwart) White. Rev. Young-White received his master's degree in divinity from the Eastern Baptist Seminary...
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