Obituaries

Shannon Maia Ross, 49, passed away suddenly on Thursday, April 25, at her home in Manhattan. She was born in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 8, 1970, and her parents were Kaye Camille Byrd and Malcolm Ross Jr. She graduated from Stephen Decatur High School in Berlin, Maryland with the Class of 1988.

Steven A Dellert of Shohola, PA, passed away Thursday, April 25 at Julia Ribaudo Extended Care in Lake Ariel, PA. The son of the late Charles and Justine Eckhart Dellert, he was born July 18, 1952. He was 66 years old.

Lillian E. Yacino, 94, of Lava, NY passed away on April 25 at the Skilled Nursing Unit of Catskill Regional Medical Center in Harris. Born on February 10, 1925 in Brooklyn, Lillian and her husband moved from Long Island to Lava in the 1970s.

Evelyn Vivian Kunkeli (Viv), 88, a former resident of Port Orange, FL, passed away at her daughter’s home in New Jersey on April 18. She was born to John and Evelyn (Andersen) Meiritz in Danbury, CT and grew up in Eldred, New York. Before retiring to Port Orange with her husband, she resided in Narrowsburg, NY.

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Stefan Ircha, longtime resident of Milanville, Pennsylvania, was called to our Heavenly Father on Saturday, March 2, at the age of 93 years. He passed away in the comfort of his home, having been administered last rites surrounded by his children and grandchildren, and overlooking the Delaware River and nature.

Elizabeth Rotando Johnston of Jeffersonville, NY, a retired clerk at the Sullivan County Veterans Service Agency, died on Thursday in the skilled nursing unit at the Catskill Regional Medical Center. She was 88. The daughter of the late Anthony John Rotando and Catherine Melillo Rotando, she was born March 24, 1930 in Mount Vernon, NY.

Lorraine Marie Naused Miesner of Roscoe, NY, died on February 17 from an ill-fated strike by a foul-tempered chestnut mare. The long-time area resident, and most interesting person in many peoples’ lives, was 73.