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April 24, 2011
Martha Ann Karweta, of Hemlock Street, Wilkes-Barre Township, died Easter Sunday, April 24, 2011, at her home.
Born in Wilkes-Barre Township, and a life resident, she was a daughter of the late Anthony and Josephine Unitowski Karweta.
Martha was a graduate of the former Wilkes-Barre Township High School, and attended Wilkes-Barre Business College, and also evening classes at Wilkes University and King’s College.
Prior to her retirement, she was employed for 34 years by the United States Bureau of Mines, Interior Department, and the Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, Labor Department, as a supervisory clerk.
After retirement, she was a part-time employee for nine years at Luzerne County Community College as a clerk in the Nursing and Continuing Education Department.
Martha was a devout member, all her life, at Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church, Wilkes-Barre, where she was a former member of both youth and adult choirs.
She was a former secretary of the parish committee for several years and in recent years, a member of the church council. Martha also served as chairperson of the parish cemetery committee, and was a delegate at many of the Diocesan and General Synods of the PNCC.
She was a member of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees.
Finding travel both educational and enjoyable, she had traveled extensively throughout the United States and in many distant foreign countries.
Martha was preceded in death by her brother, Frank, in 1964; and sister-in-law, Lottie, in 1996.
She is survived by a niece, Mary Jo, and her husband, Michael Shisko, Harveys Lake; nephew, Frank, and his wife, Maryann Karweta, Northampton, Pa.
A Mass of Burial will be celebrated on Wednesday, at Holy Cross Polish National Catholic Church, 23 Sheridan Street, Wilkes-Barre, with the Very Reverend Thaddeus J. Dymkowski, officiating. Private interment will be in the parish cemetery, Wilkes-Barre Township. There will be no calling hours.
Arrangements were entrusted to the Jendrzejewski Funeral Home, Wilkes-Barre.
Memorial donations may be made in her memory to Holy Cross PNC Church, 23 Sheridan St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702