Dolores Patricia Kutz Prushinski

January 18, 2011

Dolores Patricia Kutz Prushinski passed away peacefully into eternal life on Tuesday, January 18, 2011, at her home. Born in the Honey Pot section of Nanticoke in 1930, she was a daughter of the late Peter and Blanche Sosinski Kutz. She was a graduate of the Nanticoke High School Rams, class of 1948, where she actively served on the reunion committee. Dolores worked in the cigar mill in Nanticoke until beginning her 25-plus years of service with Bell Telephone Co./Verizon, retiring in 1989. After her retirement, she worked as a child caregiver at The School House daycare center and then as a clerk with the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. She served as the judge of elections in the fourth ward of Nanticoke for many years. Dolores volunteered her time at the Domestic Violence Service Center, Wilkes-Barre, as a reading aide with the Greater Nanticoke Area School District, and served as treasurer of the Honey Pot Playground Association. She was a member of the Catholic Community of Saint Faustina Kowalska (formerly Saint Stanlislaus) of Nanticoke. At St. Stanislaus, Dolores was a member of the choir, seamstress for the Youth Group Living Stations, led the Rosary recitations before Sunday Mass, and helped to organize the weekly Eucharistic Adoration/Divine Mercy services. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 31 years, Stanley J. Prushinski; sisters, Dorothy B. O'Brien and Jean (Eugenia) M. Kutz. Dolores is survived by son Joseph and his wife, Denise, Nanticoke; daughter Susan, Gordon, Pa.; daughter Katherine Huber and her husband, Kenneth, Nanticoke; son Michael and his wife, Michele, Nanticoke; four grandchildren, Kenneth and Kristopher Huber, Jozef and Sarah Prushinski; brother, Joseph Kutz, Nanticoke; godson, David O'Brien and his wife, Madeline, Dexter, Mich.; sisters-in-law, Irene McMahon and her husband, Daniel, Hanover, Pa., and Claire Prushinski, Laurel, Md.; as well as numerous cousins, nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday from Kearney Funeral Home Inc., 22 S. Prospect St., Nanticoke, with a Mass of Thanksgiving and Christian Burial at 10 a.m. at St. Faustina Parish-alternate site, 1030 S. Hanover St., Nanticoke. Entombment will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, Hanover Township. Friends and family may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday evening at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, the family encourages donations to the Youth Group of St. Faustina Parish, 520 S. Hanover St., Nanticoke, PA 18634, or to the charity of the donor's choice.