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Demetra Balakas

January 18, 2023

Demetra Balakas, 88, of Forks Township, died Wednesday, January 18, 2023 in Gracedale. Born June 29, 1934 in Chionato, Kastoria, Greece, she was the daughter of the late Demetri and Anastasia (Ntandi) Hatzidemetriou. Her husband, Gust Balakas died in 2012. She was a member of Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church. Surviving are a son, William Balaskas. . . Continue

Jennifer Kaye Foster

January 16, 2023

Jennifer K. Foster

Jennifer Kaye Foster, 58 of Easton, PA died Monday, January 16, 2023 at her home. Born May 26, 1964 in Easton, she was a daughter of the late Joseph Phillips and Dorothy Lee (Crowell) Kegler. She was a 1982 graduate of Easton High School and employed by the Easton Housing Authority for 23 years. Prior. . . Continue

Richard F. Keiper

January 16, 2023

Richard F. Keiper, 88, of Bethlehem Township, died Monday, January 16, 2023 in ProMedica, Old Orchard. Born May 13, 1934 in Easton, he was the son of the late Claude E. Keiper, Sr., and Nina (Stone) Keiper. He and his wife, Linda L. (Carey) Keiper were married 43 years. He owned Richard F. Keiper Insurance. . . Continue

Dale W. Harrison

January 14, 2023

Dale W. Harrison

Dale William Harrison, 77, also known by many as the “General” passed away peacefully in his home in Kunkletown on Saturday, January 14, 2023. Born October 1, 1945 in Easton, PA he was a son of the late Gladys (Shupe) and Bishop Harrison. A 1963 graduate of Easton High School, he received his Bachelor’s degree. . . Continue

Geraldine “Gerry” Fisher

January 13, 2023

Geraldine "Gerry" Fisher

Geraldine Mae “Gerry” Fisher, 87 of Palmer Twp., PA died Friday, January 13, 2023 at home. Born April 18, 1935 in Easton she was a daughter of the late Simon Strouse, Sr. and Hilda (Richebacher) Heimbach and stepdaughter of the late Earl Heimbach. She and her husband Carl R. Fisher would have been married 68. . . Continue

Carolyn Albert

January 12, 2023

Carolyn Albert, 93, of Bethlehem, PA, and formerly of Pembroke Pines, FL and Riverhead, NY, passed away on January 12, 2023.   Carolyn was the youngest of 7 children of Abraham and Helen Fraint of Burlington, VT. Her parents had emigrated to the United States from Russia (now Ukraine). Growing up, besides going to school in. . . Continue

Shirley E. Ihling

January 11, 2023

Shirley E. Ihling, 90 of Forks Twp., PA died Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at ProMedica, Easton. Born May 11, 1932 in Wilson Borough she was a daughter of the late Mae (Banko) and Richard Wilhelm. Her husband Charles Ihling died in 2020. She was a graduate of Wilson High School and a member of the. . . Continue

Yetta Goldstein Ziolkowski

January 10, 2023

Yetta Goldstein Ziolkowski, beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed away on the morning of January 10 in Kirkland Village, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Her husband of almost seventy years, Theodore Ziolkowski, born 1932, had died there on December 5, 2020. In their life together they had previously resided in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Innsbruck, Austria; New Haven,. . . Continue