Mary Elizabeth (Polenchar) Kollar

Mary Elizabeth (Polenchar) Kollar

41 years of age and resident of Macungie, passed away peacefully on December 17, 2024, after a brief but courageous battle with a highly aggressive form of ovarian cancer. Marybeth was the daughter of Theresa Polenchar and was a graduate of Whitehall High School (2001), Temple University (2005), and Chestnut Hill College (2009). For the last 6 years, she was employed at Lehigh Valley Health Network as a Clinical Case Manager and was instrumental in helping to develop and extend the Connections program there - which is a specialized program LVHN runs that provides care for pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorder. The number of lives she touched between her work in the program and her previous years of drug and alcohol counseling as a Licensed Professional Counselor are immeasurable. She and her husband Eric were married for over 12 years and enjoyed spending time with their family and friends, especially their two children.

She is survived by her mother, Theresa Polenchar and husband Eric Kollar; her six year old daughter Harper and her three year old son Miles. Additionally she is survived by her close immediate family - aunt, Mary Frances Kaminski, mother and father in laws and their spouses Sheree and Richard Wieder and Jeffrey and Lynn Kollar, brother and sister in law Ryan and Ariel Kollar as well as her nieces Kiera and Kendall Kollar, brother in law Matt Kollar, and sister in law Julie Kollar.

A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.

For those who would like to honor Marybeth with a memorial contribution, her family suggests a donation to her children's education fund: Please make your check payable to Eric G. Kollar and mail to 444 Pershing Blvd. Whitehall, Pennsylvania 18052-6411. Thank you kindly.

The Gilbert Funeral Home of Whitehall

is honored to handle her arrangements