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Monday, January 24, 2000 Page: 6A
January 23, 2000 hillip Simonton, of Wilkes-Barre, died Sunday at the
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Wilkes-Barre. Born March 22,
1932, in Plains Township, he was a son of the late Joseph and Sadie (Gadonski)
Symeon. He was a 1951 graduate of GAR Memorial High School. He was a U.S.
Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War. He worked for the National Roofing
Co., Wilkes-Barre, for many years. He was a member of St. Patrick’s Church,
Wilkes-Barre, and its Holy Name Society, and the Disabled American Veterans
Chapter 102, Kingston. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Maureen
Simonton; brothers, Theodore, Adolph, Joseph, Edward and Chester; and sister,
Claire Stefanski. Surviving are his wife, the former Geraldine J. Coulter;
sons, Phillip D. and Stephen, both of Mountaintop; daughter, Bernice Mullen,
Mountaintop; sisters, Estelle Foster, Nescopeck; Josephine Brzozowski,
Mountaintop; and Lottie Kalson, Kenmore, N.Y.; brother, Peter Symelon,
Detroit, Mich.; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be at 11
a.m. Wednesday from the Mamary-Durkin Funeral Home Inc., Wilkes-Barre, with a
Mass of Christian Burial at 11:30 a.m. in St. Patrick’s Church. Interment will
be in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Hanover Township. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and
7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday.