Obituaries
Dawn Speer Young
September 3, 2025
It is with deep sorrow and boundless love that we announce the passing of Dawn Speer Young, age 63, who passed away peacefully on September 3rd, 2025, after a courageous battle with stomach cancer. Dawn was at her happy place, the family beach house in South Bethany, Delaware, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and surrounded by […]
Thomas F. McGrail Jr.
September 2, 2025
Thomas Francis McGrail, age 92, of Chadds Ford, PA passed away on September 2, 2025. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1932 to Thomas F and Mary (Cunningham) McGrail. Tom graduated from St. John’s High School in Worcester and Worcester Academy where he was a three- sport athlete and was later inducted into the […]
Marilyn Joyce Watkins
September 2, 2025
Marilyn Joyce (Guild) Watkins passed away on September 2nd at the age of 76 in ChristianaCare Wilmington Hospital with her husband, son, and daughter at her bedside. Born in Topeka, Kansas in October of 1948, she was preceded in death by her parents Charles Guild and Glenys (Erichsen) Guild, her brother Edward (“E.J.”) Guild, and […]
Eugene F. Thomas
September 1, 2025
Eugene F. “Gene” or “Butch” Thomas, 74, of Nottingham Pennsylvania passed away at Wilmington Hospital, surrounded by his loving family on Monday, September 1, 2025. Eugene was born in 1953, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and formerly resided in Toby Farms, Concordville, and Morgantown, Pennsylvania. At the young age of 16, Gene started his career as a […]
Basil R. Battaglia
August 29, 2025
Basil R. Battaglia, 89, a lifelong resident of Wilmington, DE, passed away on August 29, 2025, just two months shy of his 90th birthday. Basil graduated from Salesianum High School and earned his BA from LaSalle College in Philadelphia in 1959 and his LLB from the University of Baltimore in 1963. Basil is recognized as […]
Joseph A. Frezzo
August 28, 2025
Joseph “Joe” Anthony Frezzo, of Elkton, MD., age 94, passed away on Thursday, August 28, 2025. Joseph was born in Toughkenamon, PA, in 1930, he was the son of the late Emedio Frezzo and the late Josephine (DeLarantis) Frezzo. He was the eldest of six children. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in […]
Doris L. Eissing
August 26, 2025
Doris L. McDowell Eissing, age 98, of Seaford, Delaware, formerly of Wilmington, Delaware, passed away on Tuesday, August 26, 2025. Doris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, daughter of the late Charles McDowell and Lidia Boulden McDowell. She graduated from John Bartram High School. She was a retired accounting clerk with the United Way of Delaware. […]
Jayashree Subramanyam
August 25, 2025
Mrs. Jayashree Subramanyam breathed her last peacefully in her sleep on August 25, 2025, in Bear, Delaware, USA, surrounded by her immediate family. She was 83 years old. Jayashree was born in September of 1941, in Mysuru (Mysore), Karnataka, India, to parents M.P. Krishnaswamy, a respected advocate, and Lalitha, a devoted homemaker. She was the […]
Barbara Sezna Gehret
August 25, 2025
Barbara Sezna Gehret, 81, of Wilmington, Delaware, passed away peacefully at home on August 25, 2025. Born in 1944 to Jean Grier Sezna and Walter William Sezna, Barbara graduated from Monticello College in Alton, Illinois. She began her career as a press correspondent for Gordon McClendon of McClendon Broadcasting Systems and was stationed in Vietnam […]
Daniel Voelker
August 21, 2025
Daniel Voelker, Sr. passed away August 21, 2025 at the age of 96, holding hands with his daughter and son-in-law, after a brief stay in Wilmington Hospital. He was a native New Yorker and lover of all things NYC, avid history buff and storyteller, daily reader of the NY Times, listener of NPR and WHYY, […]