Obituaries
Robert Sievers
March 18, 2022
Robert Jerome Sievers, the son of George Harold and Anunciata “Nancy” Marinaccio Sievers, was born 88 years ago in Brooklyn, New York. Bob (as he was known to his friends and family) passed away peacefully, with his wife Benita and son Mark by his side, on March 18, 2022 in Wilmington, Delaware. Bob graduated from […]
Lawrence Alden Thurrell
March 18, 2022
Lawrence Alden Thurrell In his own words: Larry Thurrell stopped looking down at the grass the 18th of March 2022. As in life, he was surrounded by his family at the time of his passing. He was born in Wolfeboro, NH in 1936 the youngest of four brothers, Robert (d. 2007), Philip (d. 2005), and […]
Lillian Antonelli
March 18, 2022
Lillian Leverage Pryor Antonelli, age 91, passed away Friday, March 18, 2022 at Parkview Nursing Care in Wilmington, Delaware. Lillian was born in 1930 in Wilmington, DE, the daughter of Herbert H. and Arletta (nee Fenton) Leverage. She is preceded in death by two brothers, Herbert Fenton Leverage and Howard W. Leverage. Her sister Renee […]
Olympia Ganoudis
March 16, 2022
Olympia Ganoudis passed away peacefully on March 16, 2022. She was 93 years old. Olympia was born in Philadelphia to the late George and Georgia Tridemas. She graduated from P.S. DuPont High School in 1947 and kept up with class reunions throughout her life. She believed in showing up for life events, no matter how […]
Peter G. Sparks
March 16, 2022
Peter Grant Sparks of Wilmington, DE, passed away peacefully at home on March 16, 2022, at the age of 85. Born in Philadelphia, PA, Peter was the son of Lillian Mae Semmler and Grant Sparks, Jr. He attended Frankford High School and went on to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in […]
Marjory “Marge” Lennihan
March 16, 2022
Marjory “Marge” Lennihan – researcher in genetics and biochemistry, pianist, third grade teacher, world traveler, nature lover, wildflower gardener and loving wife, mother and grandmother – passed away peacefully on March 16, 2022 in her home in Wilmington. She was 94. Marge grew up in Lexington, Mass. Her father was a civil engineer and her […]
Betty Ann Vinton
March 15, 2022
Betty Ann Vinton (née Britton), a long-time resident of Hockessin, Delaware, died on 15 March 2022, after contracting the highly resistant MRSA bacterial infection. She was 93. Her wishes were clear: she refused more invasive treatment and, as she had insisted in her medical directives, opted to “die quietly in dignity in the presence of […]
Janet Waddell
March 13, 2022
Janet Waddell, age 85, passed away peacefully on March 13, 2022 in Kennett Square, PA. She was born in New Rochelle, NY and raised in Wilmington, DE, the daughter of Gwen Williams Holmes and J.B. Sanders Holmes. Janet was a 1954 graduate of Wilmington Friends School, having spent a summer in Munich, Germany in 1953 […]
Edward Blackburn Grandel
March 12, 2022
Edward Blackburn Grandel of Wilmington, Delaware passed away on Saturday, March 12, 2022, at the age of 81. After several months of declining health, Eddie passed peacefully of natural causes. Eddie was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1940, to father George William Grandel, Jr. and mother Dorothy Irene Grandel. He graduated from Conrad High School […]
Al Mayne
March 10, 2022
Al “Be-Bop” Mayne, passed away at Christiana Care Hospital on March 10, 2022 after a 9 day health incident that would have killed most men instantly. Devoted husband of over 49 ¾ years, incredible father, and professional grandfather, “Big-Al” was worshipped by his family for all of the love he gave, the entertainment he provided, […]