Obituaries
Jeffrey Boardman Lund
April 18, 2023
Jeffrey Boardman Lund, age 63 passed away at home on April 18, 2023 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Jeff was born on February 6, 1959 to Janet and John Lund in Waynesboro, Virginia and graduated from AI DuPont HS and Delaware Technical and Community College. Jeff retired from Farmers Insurance in 2020 after he was diagnosed, in […]
Ethel Rossiter Vandegrift
April 17, 2023
Ethel Rossiter Vandegrift of Glen Mills, Pennsylvania passed away on April 17, 2023 at the age of 96. Born in 1926 to the late Mahlon and Ethel Rossiter in Radnor, Pennsylvania, where she resided for her first 20 years. She attended Drexel University and received her B.S. in Home Economics in 1948. She began teaching […]
Thomas Stanley Vernon
April 17, 2023
Thomas Stanley Vernon slipped quietly from this world on the morning of Monday, April 17, 2023. He was born in Wilmington and spent his very early years growing up in a home his father had built for the family. He moved, along with his father, to Chadds Ford where he attended Unionville schools and graduated from […]
Bharati Seth
April 14, 2023
Bharati Subodh Seth, age 82, passed away on Friday, 14 April 2023, at home with her beloved family by her side. Bharati was born in Ahmedabad, India and moved to Mumbai, India with her family at a young age. She attended school and University in Mumbai and focused on creative and culinary endeavors. In early […]
Joan McLaughlin
April 14, 2023
Joan C. McLaughlin, our beloved “Aunt Joan” passed away on April 14, 2023 after a brief illness. Born in 1941 in Wilmington, DE, one of seven children to Katherine and William McLaughlin. A graduate of St. Elizabeth High School, she enjoyed a successful career with Diamond State Telephone, Bell Atlantic and Verizon. Retiring early, she […]
The Reverend David Sheehan, Jr.
April 13, 2023
The Reverend David Sheehan, Jr., age 92, passed away Thursday April 13, 2023. He was born in January 1936 to David and Mary Sheehan. David was well respected in the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware and was a Minister at Christ Church in Delaware City, St. Andrews in Wilmington, St. Nicholas in Newark, Calvery Episcopal Church […]
Laureen Vatty
April 13, 2023
Laureen (Pleshinger) Vatty of Chadds Ford, PA, passed away on Thursday April 13th, 2023 in the loving arms of her husband, at the age of 71. She is preceded in death by her parents Irene (Boross) Pleshinger; and Joseph Pleshinger. She is survived by her husband of 49 years Roger Vatty; daughter Stephanie (Vatty) Hubbard, […]
Barbara Kurz
April 11, 2023
Barbara Maria Kurz was born the second youngest of 9 children on the 12th of September 1938 in Hirschau, Germany near Lake Chiemsee in the State of Bavaria. She was the daughter of Elisabeth and Josef Kurz along with six sisters and two brothers. She went to school in Grabenstaett and started her career in a […]
Mary Elizabeth Wood Logan
April 10, 2023
Mary Elizabeth Wood Logan, our beloved Molly passed away on April 10, 2023. Her indomitable spirit prevailed over seven years of declining health until her heart finally failed her. From her birth in 1932 in Moorestown, NJ, she maintained a rootedness in her origins and the Quaker religion in which she was raised. Her life […]
Tucker Ranken Giddens
April 9, 2023
Tucker R. Giddens passed away early Easter morning just a month before her 74th birthday. She was the daughter of William B. and Margaret C. Ranken. She is survived by her husband of 44 years, Howard Russell Giddens Jr.; her son “Troy” Howard Russell Giddens III; her daughter “Maggie, Magpie” Margaret Tucker Giddens (Ellis J. […]