Obituaries
Chester McCabe
June 12, 2022
Chester “Chet” Charles McCabe, age 98, beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, passed away peacefully on June 12, 2022. One of 5 children (2 brothers and 3 sisters), Chet was born in Shoreham, Vermont to Mary St. John and Charles Edward McCabe. Chet was attending the University of Vermont studying Physics when he volunteered for […]
Ellen Fitzgerald
June 11, 2022
Ellen Fitzgerald (nee Rutter) passed away peacefully on Saturday, the eleventh of June, 2022. She was born in 1925 in Wilmington, DE. Ellen was married to Bill Fitzgerald until his passing in 1991. Reading, traveling, walking and playing cards were her passions. Ellen was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Bill, her brothers […]
George L. K. Hoh, PhD.
June 10, 2022
George L. K. Hoh, age 87, died on June 10, 2022, in Wilmington, Delaware. He was born in Canton, China to Daisy Hoh and Reverend Dr. Yam Tong Hoh. At the age of 5, he came to the USA as a refugee with his mother, followed 4 years later by his father. He moved to […]
Nellie Ray Mackie
June 9, 2022
Nellie Ray Banfield Mackie, age 90, of Hockessin, Delaware, passed away on Thursday, June 9, 2022, at Rockland Place, with her children by her side. Born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1932, Nellie Ray was the daughter of Thomas Vincent Banfield Sr. and Nellie Ray VanMetre Banfield. During her lifetime, Nellie Ray loved learning and excelled […]
Ruth S. Bulterman
June 9, 2022
Ruth S. Bulterman, loving mother, grandmother and friend, age 96, of Wilmington, Delaware passed away peacefully on June 9, 2022. Ruth was born in 1925 to Alma Tittermary and Jack Scarborough. She spent most of her childhood in Chincoteague, Virginia moving to Upper Darby, Pennsylvania where she attended school and later met and married Leo […]
Eugene Anthony Stecca
June 1, 2022
Eugene Anthony Stecca, age 87, loving father of five and adoring husband to wife Irene Wells Stecca, passed away in the early morning hours of June 1, 2022. Born in 1934 Gene was a counselor, a photographer and a world traveler…but above all else he was a devoted family man. Through an Air Force ROTC […]
Barbara (Burch) Burkhardt
May 30, 2022
Barbara (Burch) Burkhardt, age 82, of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, formerly of Wilmington, Delaware and Hyattsville, Maryland went home to her lord and her husband George on May 30th, 2022. Barbara was a resident of the Ruston Residence at Jenner’s Pond in West Grove, PA. She passed away peacefully holding the hands of her son (Dan […]
Lula Belle Sapp
May 28, 2022
Lula Belle (Walker) Sapp, age 97, passed away peacefully on, Saturday, May 28, 2022, at Paramount Senior Living Facility located in Newark, DE. She was born in Ashe County, North Carolina, daughter of the late William and Emma Walker. She was one of the founding members of the Avon Grove Church of the Nazarene in […]
Louis H. Jackson
May 27, 2022
Louis “Tex” “Plups” Jackson died peacefully at home in Wilmington DE on Friday, May 27. He was 93 years young. The patience, willingness, and kindness Plups extended without exception will be sorely missed, as will his theories, musings, and wit on a wide range of topics. Plups was a wise and gentle man with an […]
Alice Beasley Hupfel
May 27, 2022
Alice Beasley Hupfel age 82, died on Friday, May 27, 2022 after suffering from Frontotemporal Degeneration, a type of dementia, for over a decade. Alice’s true passion was art. She spent thirty years working at The Delaware Art Museum where she created and managed the very successful Art Sales and Rental Gallery and later became […]