Bernadine A. Powell OBITUARY
Bernadine A. Powell, 73, of East Main Street, Nanticoke, passed away Wednesday, March 12, 2014, at Birchwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Nanticoke. She had been seriously ill for the past year with bladder cancer.
Born on Feb. 12, 1941, at home in Nanticoke, she was a daughter of the late Stanley A. and Blanche Kacemba Kruczek. She attended Holy Trinity parochial school and graduated from Nanticoke High School, Class of 1959. She resided in Nanticoke for most of her life. She also had lived in Scranton for over 20 years earlier in life.
Prior to retiring, Bernadine had been employed by RCA, Mountain Top, for 20 years.
She was a member of St. Faustina Kowalska Parish, Nanticoke, and had been a life-long member of Holy Trinity Church prior to the consolidation of parishes.
Bernadine enjoyed people and liked waitressing early in life as well as after retiring from RCA. She also enjoyed doing needlepoint until she was no longer able to after suffering a stroke.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Powell, on May 14, 2009, and brothers, Stanley C. Kruczek and Richard Kruczek Sr.
Surviving is her twin sister, Geraldine (Gerri) Kruczek, Nanticoke; sisters-in-law, Suzanne Kruczek, Alden Station; Nancy Bryant and husband, Wayne, Endwell, N.Y.; and Patricia Kruczek, Nanticoke; as well as nieces, nephews, and great-nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will begin Monday at 9:30 a.m. from Davis-Dinelli Funeral Home, 170 E. Broad St., Nanticoke, with a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in the main site of St. Faustina Kowalska Parish, 520 S. Hanover St., Nanticoke, with the Rev. James R. Nash as celebrant.
Interment will follow in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Hanover Township.
Visitation will be Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m. at…
