Obituaries
Victor E. Leto
Apr 24, 2023
Victor E. Leto, age 95, of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, passed away on Monday April 24, 2023, at Chester County Hospital, West Chester, PA. Born in Kennett Square, he was the son of the late Oreste Leto Sr. and the late Jennie Sicco Leto. Victor lived in the same childhood home throughout his life.
Victor graduated from...
Edward Andrew Caldwell
Apr 18, 2023
Edward Andrew Caldwell, age 93, of West Grove, Pennsylvania, passed away on April 18, 2023 at Jenner’s Pond Retirement Community in West Grove, PA. He was the spouse of the late, Lola Mankin Caldwell, with whom he shared 71 years of marriage. Born in Oklahoma City, OK he was the son of the late, Frank Norman Caldwell and Gertrude...
Ian Paul McLean
Apr 17, 2023
On April 17, 2023, Ian Lawrence Paul Wallace McLean age 73, loving husband and father of four, passed away at his home in Chadds Ford, PA. Ian was born in Lanark Scotland, spent time as a child in Ireland finally settling in Middlesbrough, England where he attended Teesside Polytechnic, earning a B.Sc. Honours in Mathematics, Statistics and Computing. His...
Joseph Michael Johnston, Jr.
Apr 15, 2023
Joseph Michael Johnston, age 38, passed away on Saturday April 15, 2023, at his home in Newark, DE.
Joe was raised in Delaware County, PA. He spent much of his early adulthood living in different parts of the tri-state area. Wherever he lived, he had a way of touching the lives of the people around him. He was...
Rebecca "Becky" Jeanne Jacobs
Apr 11, 2023
Rebecca “Becky” Jeanne Jacobs, age 67, of West Grove, Pennsylvania, passed away on April 11, 2023 at Union Hospital in Elkton MD. She was the wife of Bruce Jacobs, with whom she shared 43 years of marriage. Born in Erie, PA, she was a daughter of the late, Gerald Hiller and the late, Jeanne (Schuld) Hiller.
Becky graduated from...
John D. Choate
Apr 3, 2023
John Dickinson Choate, age 86 years, of West Chester, passed peacefully on April 3, 2023. He was predeceased by his parents, Alfred and Mildred Choate (Osborne).
John was an only child and buried both parents by age 30. As a result of both parents dying at a young age, he became a vegetarian and long-distance runner, determined to live...
William R. Hewton, Jr.
Mar 26, 2023
William R. Hewton, Jr., 92, of Kennett Square, PA, passed away on March 26, 2023 after a brief battle with cancer. He was the husband of Susan B. (Jones) Hewton with whom he shared 44 years of marriage. Born in Philadelphia, he was the son of William R. and Eliza Burrows Hewton. Bill was a 1952 graduate of Penn...
Constance L. Gentry
Mar 22, 2023
Constance L. Gentry, age 87, of West Grove, Pennsylvania, passed away on March 21, 2023, at Christiana Hospital surrounded by her loving family. Born in Coatesville, PA, she was the daughter of Walter MacDonald and Viola (Riale) MacDonald. She was the spouse of the late Bob Gentry with whom she shared 62 years of marriage.
Connie worked as...
Rune E. Jacobson
Mar 16, 2023
Rune Emil Jacobson of Avondale, Pennsylvania, passed away on March 16, 2023, at home. He is survived by his beloved wife Carolyn, with whom he shared 62 years of marriage.
Born on November 2, 1934, in Vaasa, Finland, Rune was the son of Emil Jacobson and Anna Olivia (Nordberg) Jacobson. Rune emigrated from Finland to the United States with his...
Frances V. Culgan
Mar 14, 2023
Frances V. Culgan, age 96, of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, passed away on March 14, 2023, at home in Kendal at Longwood Retirement Community. Born in Atlanta, GA, she was the daughter of Francis Van der Veer and Isabel Alexander Van der Veer. She was the wife of the late John McDonald Culgan with whom she shared 36 years of...
Peter A. Economos
Mar 11, 2023
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Peter Andrew Economos, age 48, of Nottingham, Pennsylvania, passed away on March 11, 2023, at Christiana Hospital in Newark, DE. He was the spouse of Kelly Economos, with whom he shared 21 years of marriage. Born in Leicester, England, he was the son of Duane Economos and Dorinda Keech...
John "Jack" J. Murphy, Jr.
Feb 24, 2023
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John (Jack) Murphy passed away peacefully after a long and difficult illness on February 24, 2023. He was the proud son of immigrant parents, John J. and Nora Murphy and loving brother to Peggy (Murphy ) Loughin of West Chester. Jack was a man of honor and...
E. Frank Pusey, Jr.
Feb 22, 2023
E. Frank Pusey Jr., 87, of Boca Raton, Florida and West Grove, Pennsylvania passed away at his home in Boca Raton on February 22, 2023.Born February 1, 1936 in West Grove, Pennsylvania, Frank was a loving husband and father of three, grandfather of three, and great-grandfather of three. He will be lovingly remembered by Min, his beloved wife of sixty-five...
Katherine Kennedy Sherman
Feb 17, 2023
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Katherine Kennedy Sherman, age 95, of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, passed away on Friday, February 17, 2023 at Chester County Hospital in West Chester, Pennsylvania. She was the wife of the late Leonard M. Sherman who died in 2014 and with whom she shared 61 years of marriage.
Born...
Frank Janton
Feb 15, 2023
Frank Oscar Janton, age 85, of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, passed away on Wednesday, February 15, 2023, at his home. He was the husband of the late Marie Ethel Mutter Janton, who died in 2016 and with whom he shared 60 years of marriage.
Born in Philadelphia, PA, he was a son of the late...
Cynthia Engle
Feb 13, 2023
Cynthia W. Engle, age 87, passed away on February 13, 2023, at Ware Presbyterian Village in Oxford, PA. Born in Clayton, New Jersey, she was the daughter of the late, James Winner and the late, Mildred Kindle Winner. In addition, she was predeceased by her husband, Ronald LaVerne Engle (Vern) in 2006.
Cynthia graduated...
O. Wells Foster
Feb 12, 2023
O. Wells Foster (91) of Jennersville, Pennsylvania passed away on February 12, 2023.
Wells was born to Mary Jeannette (Johnnie) and David Smith Foster in Delaware in 1931. He grew up with, and was pre-deceased by, his beloved siblings: David Smith Foster, Mary Carey (Mimi) Haskell, and Lucia Vennum Adams. Wells attended Walnut Green School, St. Andrews School, and...
Doris Graham
Feb 10, 2023
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Doris Grace Stanford Graham, age 97, of West Grove, Pennsylvania, passed away peacefully on February 10, 2023 at Jenners Pond Retirement Community in West Grove, PA.
She was the beloved wife of the late H. Robert (Bob) Graham, with whom she shared 56 years of marriage. She...
Raoul H. Leuteritz
Feb 2, 2023
Raoul H. Leuteritz, age 93, of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, passed away on February 2, 2023, at Kendal Retirement Community in Kennett Square, PA, surrounded by his loving family. Born in Jamaica, NY he was the son of the late, Hugo Christian Leuteritz and Alice Maude (Moller) Leuteritz.
Raoul graduated from Lehigh University in 1951 and earned his degree in Engineering. ...
Lua Southard
Jan 27, 2023
Lua Oas Southard, a well-known and respected professional in the equine industry and friend to many, passed away Friday, January 27, 2023 at home with her family, at the age of 77. Lua is survived by sons Kenneth Charles Southard, Sr. (Marie) of Centreville, MD and Kevin Oas Southard, of Millington, MD; grandsons Kenneth C. Southard, Jr. (Morganne), of Centreville,...
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