Click here to subscribe today or Login.
Saturday, January 29, 2000 Page: 5A
January 26, 2000 enry S. “Hank” Karboski Sr., 81, of Union Street, Pittston,
died Wednesday at the Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, Plains
Township. Born in Nanticoke, he was a son of the late Steve and Anna (Hawaj)
Karboski and attended Pittston schools. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World
War II. He had worked in the area mines and was a member of Sacred Heart of
Jesus Church, Duryea; the parish Holy Name Society; Church Hill Rod and Gun
Club, Pittston; and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1227, Duryea. He was
preceded in death by his first wife, the former Anna Remsky. Surviving are his
second wife, the former Dorothy Marcinko; sons, Leonard and Henry, both of
Pittston; daughter, Ann Marie Chernouskas, Pittston; seven grandchildren;
three great-grandchildren; brother, Ted Karrow, Delaware; sister, Jennie
Urmano, Boiceyville, N.Y.; nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be at 11
a.m. today from the Bernard J. Piontek Funeral Home, Inc., Duryea, with a Mass
of Christian Burial at 11:30 a.m. in Sacred Heart of Jesus Church. Interment
will be in St. Casimir’s Cemetery, Pittston. VFW Post 1227 will conduct
services this morning. There was a viewing Friday. In lieu of flowers,
memorial donations may be made to the Church Hill Rod and Gun Club; or St.
Ann’s Median, c/o St. Ann’s Monastery, Scranton.