Obituaries
Charles G. Oertel
March 8, 2024
Charles (Chuck) Oertel passed away peacefully on Friday, March 8, 2024. Chuck was born in Wausau, WI in 1933. He was the son of Oscar and Ilma Oertel. He attended Wausau High School and then went on to graduate from the University of Wisconsin. After that he went on to pursue a career in Sales […]
Barry John Friel
March 8, 2024
Barry John Friel, age 70, after a long and courageous battle with cancer, Barry lost his fight on Friday, March 8, 2024. Barry was born in Philadelphia and as a child his family moved to Wilmington Delaware. There he went to St. Helena’s School where he volunteered with United Cerebral Palsy and obtained the rank […]
Francis Xavier Reilly
March 7, 2024
Francis Xavier Reilly, age 97, passed away peacefully at home on March 7, 2024, surrounded by his family. Born in Wilmington in 1926, he was the son of the late Alice Scanlon Reilly and John E. Reilly Sr. His wife of 73 years, Kay Vandenbraak Reilly, died in 2023. He was also predeceased by his […]
R. Bruce Pinkerton
March 6, 2024
R. Bruce Pinkerton passed away peacefully on March 6, 2024 in Accent Care Hospice at Christiana Hospital. He was several days short of his 90th birthday. Bruce was born in Abington, PA in March 1934 and was the son of the late Neilson H. and Sara K. Pinkerton. He grew up in Chester and Lancaster […]
Donna M. Rittenhouse
March 6, 2024
Donna M. Rittenhouse 59 of Wilmington, DE peacefully passed away surrounded by family on Wednesday March 6, 2024. Donna was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. to the late Richard J. McNamara and Anne L. (Fisher) McNamara. Donna is survived by the love of her life of 40 plus years, Scott W. Rittenhouse, daughter, Claudia Rittenhouse and […]
Michael Crayton
March 6, 2024
Michael Crayton of Hockessin, Delaware passed peacefully in his sleep the morning of March 6th. Mike was born in 1951 and lovingly adopted by Charles and Jean Crayton, of Wilmington, Delaware. He graduated from the University of Delaware with his bachelors in Sociology. Mike was a successful business owner of Westgate Wine & Spirits for many […]
Lorraine C. Thalheimer
March 4, 2024
Alice Lorraine Cooling Thalheimer passed away on Monday, March 4, 2024 at the age of 90. She was born in Wilmington in 1933 to Burchall Lackland Cooling and Alice Mae Steele Cooling. She grew up in Wilmington and married Robert Thalheimer in 1952. Her son Glenn was born in 1953. After successfully battling alcoholism, she […]
Georgia C. Scukas
March 1, 2024
Georgia Clare Scukas (nee Holderer), age 90, passed away peacefully at home in Glen Mills, PA on March 1, 2024. Born in February of 1934 in Weehawken, NJ to Eva and George Holderer, she graduated from the College of St. Elizabeth’s and worked as a secretary in New York City, where she met and married […]
Elinor L. Abend
March 1, 2024
Elinor L. Abend, age 90, passed away on March 1, 2024. She was the daughter of Irving & Rose Lebowitz, and sister of Edward Lebowitz. Elinor was the beloved mother of Andria Keil Bilan (Pete), Beth Keil, and Jonathan Abend (Rachel); grandmother of Peter Bilan (Laura Cochran), Andrew Bilan (Alexis Bellamy), James Ryan (Jessi Davis), […]
Joan M. Carson
February 29, 2024
Joan Marie Moore Carson, age 84, of Wilmington, Delaware, passed away peacefully at home on Thursday, February 29, 2024. Joan was preceded in death by her loving husband, Thomas, of 52 years. Joan was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1939, daughter of the late Edward & Agnes Moore. Her brother Patrick Moore preceded her in […]