Welles F. Megargel

Welles F. Megargel, 87, died at home in Lake Ariel on Friday. He was married to the former Marilyn L. Burton of Bronxville, N.Y.

Born in Scranton on April 8, 1926, he was the only son of the late Harold J. and Florence Goodall Megargel. He attended Scranton Central High School and Dunmore High School and graduated from the Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, N.J., in 1944. He received a B.S. degree from Yale University in 1949. He was an Army Air Corps Veteran of World War II. From 1949 to 1959, he was employed as a manager at Scranton Lace Co., following in the footsteps of his grandfather, father, mother and uncle. From 1959 until his retirement in 1994, he worked at Schieffelin & Co. in New York City in various executive capacities, eventually retiring as vice president of operations. He was a former member of Westminster Presbyterian Church, the Scranton Club, the Country Club of Scranton and the National Association of Alcoholic Beverage Importers.

He is also survived by three sons, H. Jefferson Megargel II, Bronxville; Burton J. Megargel and wife, Amanda Brown Megargel, and their three daughters, Anne, Wilton and Caroline , Charlottesville, Va.; and Matthew E. Megargel and wife, Eve Edwards Megargel, and their two sons, Benjamin and William.

The funeral service and interment at Hickory Grove Cemetery, Waverly, will be private.

Arrangements have been entrusted to the Lawrence E. Young Funeral Home and Cremation Service Inc., 418 S. State St., Clarks Summit.

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