Obituary of Maybelle J. Coolbaugh

Maybelle J. Coolbaugh of Rabbit Hollow Rd., Meshoppen died Thursday in the Community Regional Hospital of Scranton. She was born in Wyoming, Luzerne country on January 7, 1918 daughter of the late Luther and Ethel Knorr Coolbaugh. She was a 1935 graduate of Meshoppen High School and received her Registered Nurses certification from Passaic General Hospital, in NJ. For several years she worked at Hackensack General Hospital in NJ. She served as a registered nurse in the general practice of Dr. Peter Hunziker for numerous years. Maybelle helped with the care of Dr. Peter and Mrs. Hunziker sons and looked at John and Ted Hunziker as her own children who referred to her as Aunt Maybelle. Maybelle was preceded in death by brothers Luther, Olen and George Coolbaugh, sisters Ruth Coolbaugh, Elsie Buckingham and Ethel Coolbaugh. Surviving are brothers Gene Coolbaugh of Meshoppen, Russell Coolbaugh of Towanda, sisters Sarah Hartman of Dushore and Bertha Brink of Secaucus, NJ. numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held on Monday at 11am from the Sheldon-Kukuchka Funeral Home Inc., 73 W. Tioga St., Tunkhannock with the Rev. Thomas Mott, pastor the Meshoppen United Methodist Church. Interment will be Carverton Cemetery, Carverton. Friends may call at the funeral home on Sunday 7 to 9. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Wyoming County Cancer Society, 8 Ironwood St., Tunkhannock, Pa. 18657 or to the Meshoppen United Methodist, Church St., Meshoppen, Pa. 18630. On line condolences may be sent to the family at www.sheldonkukuchkafuneralhome.com.