Obituaries
Margaret P. Cartmell
September 9, 2019
Margaret (Peggy) Prideaux Cartmell, age 95, of Hockessin, DE died on Monday, September 9, 2019. Born 1923, Margaret was a graduate of Tarrytown High School and Mount Holyoke College (1945). Wife of Rev. John Cartmell, she supported his ministry and was active in the churches he served – the Presbyterian Church in Bedford NY., the […]
Joseph Edward Sandberg
September 8, 2019
Joseph Edward Sandberg, age 70, of Wilmington, Delaware died on Sunday September 8, 2019 at St Francis Hospital. Joe was a Tower Hill graduate ’66, Dartmouth College graduate ‘70 – cum laude and phi beta kappa and Stanford University – MBA. He was a Computer Specialist at DuPont for 25 years and a Database Designer […]
John C. Runkle, Jr.
September 7, 2019
John C. Runkle, Jr. passed away on September 7, 2019 at his home in Maris Grove. Born in Philadelphia in June 1928, Jack was the son of the Rev. John C. and Dorothy Runkle. He spent his childhood years on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. After graduating from Anacostia High School in Washington, DC, he […]
Cynthia Skibicki Collins
September 6, 2019
Cynthia Skibicki Collins, age 66, of Wilmington, Delaware, passed away at home on September 6, 2019, comforted by her husband, children, and siblings, following a hard fought battle with cancer. Cindy was born in 1953, in Wilmington. She grew up in New Castle, and graduated from William Penn High School. Cindy went on to the […]
Mary Frances Mesa
September 6, 2019
Mary Frances “Brenda” Mesa, age 80, of Wilmington, DE, passed away at her home on Friday, September 6, 2019 peacefully in her sleep. Brenda was the daughter of the late Charles and Mary Kelleher Donahue. She graduated from Christ Our King Grade School, Ursuline Academy High School and Fitzgerald Mercy, where she earned her […]
Raman Balan Rajan
September 5, 2019
Mr. Raman Balan Rajan was born to the late P.K. Raman Pillai and Mrs. Padmakshi Amma on January 8, 1938 in Poothra House, Pullangudy, Kerala. He was the eldest of five children; Mrs. Radha Nair, Mrs. Ammani Nair, Mr. Appukuttan Nair, and Lieutenant Colonel R.P.S. Nair. He came to the United States in March of […]
Patrick “Pat” D. Ziesing
September 5, 2019
Patrick “Pat” D. Ziesing, 37, passed away on Thursday, September 5, 2019 in Wilmington, Delaware, where he was born in 1982 and lived most of this life. Pat will be remembered for his kind and gentle disposition, sense of humor, and compassion and respect for others. He enjoyed time at the beach and holidays with […]
Jane H. Frelick
September 4, 2019
Jane Frelick, née Jane Owen Hayden, age 99, wife of the late Robert Frelick, M.D., died on September 4, 2019 at the Lorelton in Wilmington, Delaware. Born in Chicopee, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of the late Oliver Mills Hayden and Dorothy Lucille Clark Hayden. The family moved to Delaware in 1926. As a 1937 […]
Katherine E. Hoopes
September 3, 2019
Katherine Ehrensberger Hoopes died September 3rd at her home in Greenville, DE with members of her family present after a two and a half year struggle with ovarian cancer. She is survived by her husband of 25 years David Macmillan Hoopes, her sister and brother-in-law Jane and Dick Wattis of Easton, MD, four step-daughters Helen […]