Obituaries
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 […]
Lu Ogburn Currin
December 18, 2017
Lu Ogburn Currin passed away peacefully on December 18, 2017 surrounded by her family at her home in Sea Island, Georgia. Lu grew up in Winston Salem, NC and was a graduate of Marjorie Webster College. She met the love of her life, Bob Currin, on a blind date. They were married shortly thereafter, and […]
Ronald Mason Orr
December 18, 2017
Ronald Mason Orr, age 79, of Cheektowaga, New York, died on Monday, December 18, 2017 at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware. A 1957 graduate of Painted Post High School in Painted Post, New York and 1960 Corning Community College (CCC’s first graduating class) in Corning, New York, Ron attended Buffalo State College, earning a Bachelor […]
Scott Alan Brumbaugh
December 18, 2017
Scott Alan Brumbaugh came into our lives not in the usual way. He was delivered at Plymouth Meeting Mall on April 30, 1975 by the US Air Force fresh from two weeks at Ft. Benning, GA. We called that his first birthday. At the time neither the Air Force nor Vietnam issued birth certificates for […]
James M. Donatello
December 17, 2017
James M. Donatello, age 78, of Wilmington, DE, passed away peacefully on Sunday, December 17, 2017 at Sunrise Assisted Living. James was the son of the late Daniel and Rose Donatello, and father of the late Judy Baker. He attended Michigan Technical University in Houghton, MI where he earned his Chemical Engineering degree. James was […]
Charles Hart
December 17, 2017
Charles T. Hart, 81 of Wilmington and originally of Springfield, PA died on December 17, 2017. He is pre-deceased by his parents, Albert Jr., Harriet Hart, his brother Albert III., and his nephew Albert Hart IV. He is survived by his devoted wife, Elissa, brother Brian (Karen) daughters, Linda DeKay (David), Kristin Andreoli (John) and […]
Ethel Eleanore Bushared Perry
December 16, 2017
Mrs. Ethel Eleanore Bushared Perry, of Wilmington, DE, passed away on Saturday, December 16, 2017, surrounded by her family. She was 83 years old. Ethel “Bunny” Perry was born in 1934 in Baltimore, MD. She graduated from Wilmington High School in 1952. Ethel Perry married Robert Perry in 1954. She spent the majority of her […]