Obituaries

Margaret Downing Lyons

Margaret Downing Lyons, 92, was born in West Chester on March 15, 1921 to the late William C. and Emily C. Downing.  She passed away December 14, 2013 at the Harrison House of Christiana, PA. Margaret married S. Robert Lyons of West Chester on January 25, 1943 who passed away on March 25, 1999. Margaret lived in West Chester for...

Margaret E. Stoltzfus

Margaret E. Stoltzfus, 83, of Cochranville, passed away on Friday, June 24th surrounded by her family.  She was the widow of her late husband, Mark J. Stoltzfus with whom she shared 51 years of marriage.

Born in Coatesville, she was the daughter of the late Charles and Margaret E. Rinier Powell. She was a resident of Cochranville for...

Margaret E. Wallace

Margaret E. Wallace, 92, of Westwood, passed away on Monday, November 18, 2013 at the Inpatient Hospice Center in West Chester. She was the wife of the late Harold Wallace who died in 1968. Born in the historical Brinton House near Chadds Ford, she was the daughter of the late James and Caroline Heaps Thompson. Margaret was employed by Keystone...

Lori A. Gill Xagas

Lori A. Gill Xagas, 47, of Mt. Laurel, NJ, was called to eternal comfort and perfect peace on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 while at Samaritan Hospice of Virtua Memorial Hospital, Mount Holly, New Jersey.

Lori was born July 18, 1962 at Coatesville Hospital, Pennsylvania. She was the beautiful daughter of Theodore L. and Donna G. Acker Gill...

Lorraine A. Bair

Lorraine A. Bair, 90, of Coatesville, died on Thursday, November 22, 2012 at the Masonic Villages in Elizabethtown . She was the wife of the late S. Lewis Bair who died in 1987 and her first husband William W. Melrath who died in 1961. Born in Coatesville, she was the daughter of the late Walter and Mary Smith Beecher....

Lorraine L. Smith

Lorraine L. Smith, 87, of Parkesburg, passed away on Monday, February 27, 2012 at the Neighborhood Hospice Center in West Chester. She was the widow of the late Parvin W. Smith who died last November. Born in Christiana, she was the daughter of the late Charles P. and Mabel Wright Lawrence.

Lorraine was a 1942 graduate of the...

Lorraine G. Phillips

Lorraine G. Phillips, 76, of Coatesville, passed away on Tuesday, January, 4, 2011 at the Brandywine Hospital. She was the wife of Harvey L. Phillips with whom she shared 55 years of marriage. Born in Birdsboro, PA, she was the daughter of the late Raymond and Ruth Marks. An area resident most her life, she attended the Central Baptist...

Lois Varnes Mendenhall

Lois Varnes Mendenhall, 78, of North Port, Florida, previously of Cochranville, passed away on Thursday, December 26, 2013.  She was the wife of Paul E. Mendenhall with whom she shared 60 years of marriage. Born in Coatesville Hospital, Lois was the daughter of the late Arthur C. Varnes and Kathryn Miller Varnes.  She was a graduate of Scott High School...

Lonnie D. Henson

Lonnie D. Henson, 63, of Quarryville, died on Sunday March 1, 2009 at the Lancaster Regional Hospital. Born in West Grove, PA he was the son of the late Richard Henson and Vail Ward Moyer. He served honorable in the US Army during the Vietnam War. Lonnie was employed by Michael's Bakery of Strasburg retiring in 2007.

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Lorena B. Harrington

Lorena B. Harrington, 85, of Coatesville, passed away on Wednesday, December 19, 2012, at home.

Born in West Chester on January 21, 1927, she was the daughter of the late Harry H. and Minnie Eaby Brittingham. On August 22, 1948, she married William J. Harrington who preceded her in death in August 2009. Lorena was a 1944 graduate...

Loretta Kay Hoover

Loretta Kay Hoover, 59, of Cochranville, passed away at the Heartland Hospice in Pine Creek, Delaware on Sunday June 21, 2009. She was the wife of Chester B. Hoover with whom she shared 22 years of marriage. Born in Wilmington, DE she was the daughter of Clarence and Dorothy M. Barker Darnell of Cochranville.

Loretta was a...

Lois B. Stoltzfus

Lois B. Stoltzfus, 76, of Cochranville, passed away on Tuesday, May 3, 2011, at the M. S. Hershey Medical Center.  She was the wife of Abner S. Stoltzfus for 36 years.  Born in Pomeroy she was the daughter of the late Artemis and Anna MacDonald Townsend.

She was a graduate of Scott High School and had lived in...

Lois E. Broschard

Lois E. Broschard, 86, of Parkesburg, passed away on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at the Ware Presbyterian Villiage of Oxford.  She was the widow of the late William E. Broschard, who passed away in 1994.

Born on Wednesday, March 12, 1924 in Coatesville, she was the daughter of the late Ellen LaMar Steen Martin and William Steen....

Linda A. Wilson

Linda A. Wilson, 57, of Coatesville died on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 at Brandywine Hospital.

She was the beloved wife of Mark H. Wilson who recently died on Sept. 15th. Born in Bryn Mawr, PA she was the daughter of the late John H. and Margaret E. (McCann) Litchert, and sister to Catherine (Litchert) Minio and John Litchert....

Linda A. Wolfe

Linda A. Wolfe, 61, of Parkesburg, died on Friday, May 11, 2012 at Brandywine Hospital. She was the beloved wife of Alan M. Wolfe with whom she shared 34 years of marriage. Born in Coatesville, she was the daughter of the late Frank and JoAnn Laniewski Ellis.

Linda was an area resident all her life and a...

Linda F. Kasper

Linda F. Kasper, 65, of Elverson, passed away at her home on Friday, November 30th, 2012.  She was the wife of Ronald C. Kasper.

Born in Upper Darby (Delaware County), she was the daughter of the late James Christian Fye and Mary Eileen Barger Fye. She had worked at UPS. Linda is survived by her two sons, James...

Lillian Janet Hilton

Lillian Janet Hilton, 74, of Parkesburg, passed away on Friday, June 24, 2011 at her home, surrounded by her loved ones.

Born in Birdsboro, she was the daughter of the late Cleon and Anne Marie Burns Templin. She was a graduate of the Pottstown Senior High School.

Lillian is survived by her three children: Howard...

Lillie L. Jackson

Lillie L. Jackson, 92, of Parkesburg, passed away on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at the Conestoga View Nursing Home in Lancaster. She was the widow of the late Raymond P. Jackson. Born in Spotsylvania, VA she was the daughter of the Joseph and Mattie Cook Woodward. Lillie was an area resident since 1942 and she was a member of...

Lisa G. Mullis

Lisa G. Mullis, 50, of Parkesburg, died on Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at the Riddle Memorial Hospital. Born in Coatesville, she was the daughter of Bonnie Powers Denlinger of Honey Brook and the late Robert E. Gill. She is survived by two children; David Collins of Royersford and Christina Keaton of Gap, one grandchild and two brothers Robert S. Gill...

Lista M. Smith

Lista M. Smith, 95, passed away on Saturday, August 15, 2009 at the Tel Hai Nursing Home, where she had lived for four years. She was the widow of Clinton L. Smith, who passed away in 1980.

Born in Altoona, PA she was the daughter of the late Maud Amos Miller and Jacob Miller. She was a...