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Mary Colombo O’Dea, 80, Clarks Summit and formerly of Dalton, died Sunday morning, Sept. 20, at the Lackawanna County Health Care Center. Dick O’Dea, her husband of 52 years, died November 28, 2000.

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Mary Colombo O’Dea

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Born in Glenburn, May 14, 1929, daughter of the late Frank and Aurelia Colombo, she was the mother of five children and for many years was a licensed realtor with her husband at the Dick O’Dea Real Estate Agency. She was a member and Eucharistic Minister of Our Lady of the Abington’s Church, a member of Our Lady of the Snow’s Christian Mothers, a past member of the Philharmonic Women’s League and the Greater Scranton Board of Realtors.

Mary enjoyed gardening, berry picking, cooking and canning. She was skilled at carpentry, wall papering, home improvement and handled tools and chain saws like an expert. She had an artists’ eye for decorating and an engineer’s sense of how to make something work. She was devoted to her family and her faith.

Also surviving are a daughter, Maureen (Marnie) O’Dea Palmer, Clarks Green; two sons, Dennis and wife Mary, Dalton and Sean and wife Michelle, Dunmore; son-in –law, Jim Palmer, Clarks Summit; two brothers, Wellington (Chris) Colombo and wife Jean, and Frank (Butch) Colombo and wife Susan; three sisters in-law, Angela and Frances Colombo and Mary Clare O’Dea; six grandchildren, Courtney and Morgan Palmer; Whitney Palmer and husband Christopher Santoro; Justin, Sean Patrick (Packy) and Connor O’Dea; a great-grandson, Angelo Santoro; nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Attorney Katherine O’Dea VanDeusen; a son Patrick (Packy) O’Dea; three sisters Mary, whom she was named after, Ann Colombo and Madelyn Marzani; three brothers, Dominick, Eugene and Ernest Colombo; a sister in-law Carmen Colombo and a brother in-law Paul O’Dea.

The funeral was held from Lawrence E. Young Funeral Home, 418 S. State Street, Clarks Summit, with Mass at 10 a.m. in Our Lady of the Abington’s Church, Dalton. Interment will be in Abington Hills Cemetery. Memorial contributions can be made to the Maryknoll Office of Global Concerns, P. O. Box 311, Maryknoll, NY 10545-0311 ogc@maryknoll.org or the Griffin Pond Humane Society, 967 Griffin Pond Road, S. Abington Twp., PA 18411-9299. www.hslc.pondpets.org