Obituaries

Douglas Allen Campbell, 82, of Forks Twp., PA died Tuesday, April 22, 2014 in Moravian Hall Square.

Born: April 18, 1932 in Easton, PA he was a son of the late James and Virginia (Muffley) Campbell. He and his wife, the former Barbara A. Helm have been married for 58 years.

Personal: He received an Associate’s Degree from Penn State and had been employed by the Crayola Co. for 43 years before retiring in 1993. He was an avid fisherman who loved bicycling, traveling worldwide and gardening, especially his orchids. He also served in the Navy during the Korean War as a communications technician.

Memberships:  He was a member of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Wilson where he served on Church Council. He was a member of the American Production Inventory Control Society and past-president of the Industrial Management Club of Lehigh Valley.

Survivors: He is lovingly remembered by his wife: Barbara; son: David L. Campbell and his wife Stacy of Forks Twp., PA; daughters: Deborah L. Gibson and her husband Kim of Sherman, IL; Cherie Y. Sperlbaum and her husband Jeffrey of New Tripoli, PA; a brother: James G. Campbell  of Nazareth, PA; sister: Jayne E. Kunkel of Glastonbury, CT; 6 grandchildren: Justin Gibson, Garrett and Samantha Sperlbaum, Collin, Courtney and Brayden Campbell and great-grandson: Brendan Gibson. He was predeceased by a son: Todd Douglas Campbell and brother: Robert Campbell.

Services: 10:30 a.m. Monday (Apr.28) in the Ashton Funeral Home, 1337 Northampton St., Easton, with visitation from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Interment will be in Hope Cemetery, Hecktown.

Memorials: May be made to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 2115 Washington Blvd., Easton, PA 18042.

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Sandra Joyce Lovell Goldsmith, 59, of Palmer Twp., PA beloved wife of Timothy S. Goldsmith for 32 years, passed away Easter Sunday, April 20, 2014.

Born: May 6, 1954 in Easton, PA she was a daughter of J. Robert Lovell of Bethlehem, PA and the late Lois Joyce (Worley) Lovell.

Personal: Sandi matriculated through the Easton Area School District and received her B.S. at Penn State University and her M.S. at Kutztown University. She worked at the Northampton County Department of Mental Health, the Child Abuse Unit, and the division of Children and Youth. After being a stay at home mother of 3, she returned to a position of school counselor at Tracy Elementary School in Palmer Twp. Sandi was an avid bass fisherwoman and small boat handler and enjoyed her summers with the “boys” at the family cabins on beautiful Sand Lake in Ontario.

Survivors: Her father; her husband; three sons: Andrew of College Station, TX, Matthew and Peter of Bethlehem, PA; three sisters: Karen Brown and her husband Dennis of Palmer Twp., PA, Janice Drake and her husband Gregory of Stockertown, PA, Lynn Johnson and her husband Donald of Lower Nazareth Twp., PA; and her two golden retrievers.

Services: 11 AM Thursday (Apr. 24) in College Hill Presbyterian Church, 501 Brodhead St., Easton, PA with visitation from 6 to 8 PM Wednesday in the Ashton Funeral Home, 1337 Northampton St., Easton. Interment will be in Easton Cemetery.

Memorial Contributions: May be made to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 961 Marcon Blvd., Ste. 452, Allentown, PA 18109.

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Rose Marie Allen, 80, of Easton died Sunday, April 20, 2014 at home.

Born: November 10, 1934 in Trenton, NJ she was a daughter of the late William and Ona (Savage) Anderson. Her husband Willard “Dutch” Allen, Jr. died in 1991.

Memberships: She was a member of the Concordia Maennerchor and Am. Vets. #17.

Survivors: Her daughter: Christine Lee Allen with whom she resided; son: Terry Lee Allen of Easton; 12 grandchildren, including Lonnie, Scott, Nadia, Lee, Melissa and Dorothy; 18 great-grandchildren including Christine Rose and Tyler Scott; 1 great-great-granddaughter; sister: Donna Johnson of Easton; and a godchild: Bobbi Jo Naylor of Easton. She was predeceased by her husband, step-sons: Dennis Walker, Butch Allen, III, siblings: Kenneth, Chester, Naomi and godchild: Celiann Brown.

Services: 10:30 a.m. Friday (Apr. 25) in the Ashton Funeral Home, 1337 Northampton St., Easton, with visitation from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday. Interment will be in South Easton Cemetery.

Memorial Contributions: May be made to the Easton Home Hospice, 3001 Emrick Blvd., Ste. 303, Bethlehem, PA 18020. 

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Leanore C. Donschietz, 81 of Palmer Twp., PA died Saturday, April 19, 2014 in Easton Hospital.

Born: March 12, 1933 in Bethlehem, PA she was the fifth of seven girls born to the late Carmen and Anna (Geraci) Christ who had emigrated to the United States from the Palermo area of Sicily.

Personal: She was employed as the office manager at Easton Radiology and previously by Easton Hospital. She was a 1951 graduate of Easton High School where she was a twirler. She also served in the Navy WAVES during the Korean War.  She was a devoted mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, enjoyed reading, traveling, sports and the internet, and was an avid and expert Scrabble player.

Memberships: She was a member of Dryland United Church of Christ, Nazareth; and was secretary of the AARP, Palmer Chapter. She was president of the WAVES National Shipmates Unit 120 and an active member of the Easton High School Class of 1951 Reunion Committee.  She was a member and president of the Ladies Auxiliary of the West Easton Fire Co., a past-president of the Livingstone PTA in West Easton and she had been a Cub Scout Den Mother.

Survivors: Children: Robert A. Seiple and his wife Kathy of Union, NJ, Roy D. “Buzz” Seiple and his wife Cynthia of Nazareth, PA, Robin Crihfield and her husband Stephen of Birdsboro, PA; a sister: Gloria Mitchell of Bethlehem, PA; 8 grandchildren: Adrienne, Lauren, Chelsea, Lindsay, Ryan, Pamela, Randy and Christine; 5 great-grandchildren: Emmett, Gus, Marlo, Luna and Fiona; 2 step-children: Anne DeLong and Ronald Donschietz; and former husband: Robert Seiple. Her husband: Ronald Donschietz and son: Rodney W. Seiple died earlier.

Services: 11:00 AM Wednesday (Apr. 23) in Dryland UCC, 4415 Newburg Rd., Nazareth, PA 18064, with visitation 6 to 7:30 PM Tuesday in the Ashton Funeral Home, 1337 Northampton St., Easton and 10:30 to 11 Wednesday in the church. Interment will be in Forks Cemetery.

Memorials: May be made to Dryland UCC, 4415 Newburg Rd., Nazareth, PA 18064.

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Mary Jane Lutz, 84, of Forks Township, died Thursday, April 10, 2014 in the home of her daughter, Susan.

Born:  May 7, 1929 in Easton, she was a daughter of the late Donald S. and Mary Grace (Painter) Reich.

Personal:  Her husband, George R. Lutz died in 2005.  She graduated from Lafayette College in 1984 and was a special education teacher in the Nazareth Area School District.   She was also a secretary at Lafayette College and Easton Junior High School.

Memberships:  Mary Jane was a member of First United Church of Christ, Easton and served on the Board of Directors of the former SPCA, Easton.

Survivors:  A daughter, Susan J. Vicario of Martins Creek; 4 sons, George D. Lutz of Michigan, Kurt R. Lutz, Brian J. Lutz, and Mark J. Lutz of Easton; a brother, Chauncey Reich; 17 grandchildren; and 7 great grandchildren.  A brother, Donald Reich died earlier.

Services:  10:30 am Tuesday in the Ashton Funeral Home, 1337 Northampton St., Easton.  Call on Monday from 5:30 to 7:00 pm in the funeral home.

Memorial Contributions:  Center for Animal Health and Welfare, 1165 Island Park Rd., Easton, PA 18042.  Offer online condolences at www.AshtonFuneralHome.com.

Daniel Hertz, 93, formerly of Easton and Tannersville, died April 8, 2014 at his home in Lauderhill, FL.

Born: in New York City, he was a son of the late Emil and Dora Hertz.  He and his wife Marilyn have been married for 67 years.

Personal: When he was 18, his family moved to Bangor and later to Pen Argyl.  He was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1942, serving 3 ½ years.  He was a Sergeant in the 796th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, attached to the 10th Armored Division of Patton’s Third Army in Europe.  He was Chief of his battalion’s message center, which sorted and delivered mail and verbal messages and operated the cryptography machine.  They participated in three major campaigns: The Battle of the Bulge (Ardennes), The Rhineland, and Central Europe. He married Marilyn in 1947, learned to ski on his honeymoon in the Canadian Laurentians, and then settled in Easton.  His love of skiing started his involvement in the ski industry beginning in 1958.  He was a ski patrolman at Big Boulder and Buck Hill Ski Areas, a ski instructor at Camelback Ski Area, and the Ski Patrol Leader at Timber Hill Ski Area (now Alpine Mt.).  He was also president of the Poco Ski Club in Easton. As a Ski-School Supervisor at Big Boulder and Camelback Ski Areas, he earned national recognition for organizing a program, which ran from 1967 through 1980, qualifying Boy Scouts who wished to earn their Skiing Merit Badge. Within the first few years of the program, he was informed by The Boy Scouts of America that he had qualified more scouts for the skiing merit badge than any other individual in the United States and was featured in an article in Scouting Magazine in 1971. He is going to be inducted into the Pennsylvania Ski Hall of Fame later this year. From 1974 until 1980, he was also a real-estate developer and a broker at Kohler-Marvin Realty. Before retiring, he worked as the Administrative Manager for night skiing at Camelback Ski Area from 1980 to 1993.

Memberships: Before moving to Florida, he had been a member of the Temple Covenant of Peace, Easton, and Temple Israel, Stroudsburg.  He belonged to the Pen Argyl American Legion and VFW.

Survivors: Wife: Marilyn; daughter: Leslie Stine and her husband James of Pocono Pines; two sons: Ronald and his wife Debbie Messling of Bethlehem, Gerald and his wife Jessica Waldman of Boulder, CO; a grandson: Shiloh and a granddaughter: Ilana, both of Boulder, CO; two brothers: Mortimer of Delray Beach, FL and Robert of Ft. Myers, FL.  Sisters: Blanche Berman and Ruth Ravitz died previously.

Services: 2 PM Sunday (Apr. 13) in Ashton Funeral Home, 1337 Northampton St., Easton (at the corner of 14th and Northampton Sts.) Interment will be in the B’nai Abraham Cemetery, Forks Township, PA.

Memorials: May be made to the USO or charity of one’s choice.

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