Obituaries
John Allen Pyne, Sr.
December 29, 2017
John A. Pyne, Sr. 96, of Fenwick Island, DE and Willow Valley, Lancaster, PA went to be with the Lord December 29, 2017. He grew up in Claymont, DE and graduated from Claymont H.S. and Goldey-Beacom College. He proudly served in the Army Air Corps during W.W.II stationed in Italy with the 3rd and 9th […]
James M. Hoffman
December 29, 2017
James M. Hoffmann, Pop, Pop-Pop, and Granddad of Greenville, DE and Estero, FL, passed away peacefully on December 29, 2017. Jim was born in 1917 and raised in Chicago, IL and attended the University of Illinois, graduating in June 1939 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. While at the University he joined the Lambda Chi […]
Patrick J. Mulvena
December 28, 2017
Visitation will be held at St. Elizabeth’s Church, 809 S. Broom St., Wilmington, DE 19805 on Tuesday, January 2, 2018 from 9:30-12 pm. Mass of Christian Burial will follow.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to St. Elizabeth Church or Fraim’s Boys and Girls Club, 669 S. Union St., Wilmington, DE 19805.
Ethel Mitchell
December 28, 2017
Ethel McKaig Mitchell (nee Hartman) of Glen Mills, PA passed from this world on December 28, 2017. Ethel, who spent most of her adult life as a resident of Delaware and Florida, was 94 years old. Ethel Sarah was born on 12 July, 1923 in Allentown, PA, the second daughter of Paul H. Hartman and […]
Irene Virginia Nebel D’Angelo
December 27, 2017
Irene Virginia Nebel D’Angelo, formerly of Woodbridge, New Jersey and Annandale, Virginia, died at home with her family on December 27, 2017. She was 98. Irene was born in Woodbridge in 1919, at the tail end of the influenza epidemic, which had swept through the household months before. She was the third child of Erwin […]
Sheila D. DiSabatino
December 27, 2017
Sheila Donovan DiSabatino passed away on Wednesday December 27, 2017 in Wilmington, DE at the age of 79. She was born December 8, 1938 in Easton, PA to Timothy James Donovan and Blanche Uhler Donovan. She grew up in Wilmington, DE and attended Ursuline Academy, Immaculata Junior College, Washington D.C. and Newton College the Sacred […]
Derick William Ovenall
December 26, 2017
Derick William Ovenall, died on December 26, 2017, after a long illness. He was born in 1930, the only child of Miriam and Frederick Ovenall, in the town of Walsall in the industrial West Midlands of England. He attended Queen Mary’s School, Walsall, and in 1949, he was awarded a State Scholarship to study chemistry […]
Helen Lowe Eliason
December 26, 2017
Helen Lowe Eliason, died on December 26, 2017 after a long happy life and brief illness. She was born near St. Michael’s, Maryland, the daughter of Helen T. and Roy V. Lowe. She graduated from Delaware City High School, Mary Washington College and the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Eliason was employed by […]
Thomas F. Carson
December 24, 2017
Thomas F. Carson, age 75, of Wilmington, Delaware, passed away Sunday, December 24, 2017 after an unwavering yearlong battle with Pancreatic Cancer. Tom was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1942, son of the late Richard & Mary Bernice Carson. His sisters Mary Mitzen of Mansfield, NJ and Sister Patricia Carson, RSM, of Mount St. […]
Roger Burnham Gordon
December 20, 2017
Roger Burnham Gordon, age 84, of Wilmington, Delaware, died peacefully on December 20, 2017 after a long illness. Roger was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan to Marion Searle and Wallace Emerson Gordon. He is a graduate of Mt. Pleasant High School (’51), Lafayette College (’55 Chemistry) and Ohio State University (MBA). It was at Ohio […]