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Monday, August 23, 1993     Page:

Irene McGlynn
   
Aug. 20, 1993
    Irene McGlynn, of Fairhill, Philadelphia, formerly of Nanticoke, died
Friday at the Albert Einstein Medical Center, PhiladelphiaBorn and raised in
Nanticoke, she was the daughter of the late Bruno and Agnes Shipkowski
Mayewski. She was a member of St. Stanislaus Church when she resided in
Nanticoke and currently was a member of St. Helena Church, Philadelphia.
   
She was a 1935 graduate of Nanticoke High School and a 1938 graduate of
Mercy Hospital School of Nursing. She was employed by Nanticoke State General
Hospital in 1940, for approximately 10 years. She moved to Philadelphia in
1952, where she was employed as a nurse at Doctor’s Hospital, until it closed.
She was then employed by Abington Hospital for a number of years, and prior to
retiring in 1989, she worked at several nursing homes in the Philadelphia
area.
   
She was preceded in death by her mother, Agnes; husband, James, in 1961.
   
Surviving are a brother, Bruno, Lake Carey, Tunkhannock; sisters, Annette
and Helen Mayewski, with whom she resided; several nieces and nephews.
   
Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday from the Grontkowski Funeral
Home, 51-53 W. Green St., Nanticoke, with a Funeral Mass at 9:30 a.m. in St.
Stanislaus Church.
   
Interment will be in the parish cemetery.
   
Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today.