Judge Daniel J. Maisano died peacefully and without pain on Dec. 10 in the arms of his beloved wife. Ultimately, Dan was another victim of COVID. Dan served Chester County as a magisterial district judge for more than two decades, serving until his passing as a senior judge. He served on the board of various charitable organizations through the years and at the time of…
George Burnett Lewis, 97. died peacefully at Crosslands Retirement Community, on Dec. 9. George was born in Flushing, New York on Feb. 19, to Dorothy Rickett and Morel Peck Lewis. His education included the Buckley School, St. Andrews School, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1947, George married Eleanor Letts from Providence and Narragansett, Rhode Island and raised three children, George…
Evelynjeane Brandt Sutton, 70, a resident of West Chester, died at home surrounded by her family on Dec. 9. Evelynjeane was raised in Upper Chichester and was a 1968 graduate of Chichester High School. She was employed with AstraZeneca for 40 years before her retirement and then went on to work part-time at Kirklands for more than five years. She was an active member of…
Reverend Lawrence Leroy Talbot Sr., 73, died Sunday, Dec. 6. He was born on Sept. 8, 1947, in Elkton, Md., to the late Leon and Edith Talbot of Oxford. Reverend Talbot attended West Chester University of Pennsylvania. He retired from Elwyn Institute in Media, as a computer IT specialist. Over the years during his ministry in the African Union Methodist Protestant Church and Connection under…
William C. Rigby III (Bill) of Concordville died Sunday, Dec. 6 Bill was a graduate of Media High School and Lafayette College where he played basketball and went through the ROTC program. After graduating from Lafayette, he went into the army as a 2nd lieutenant. He served in Panama in the Panama Canal Zone from 1962 to 1966. He was honorably discharged with the rank…
Anthony (Tony) Brice Dambro Jr., beloved builder, father, and grandfather, died Friday, Nov. 27, at his home in Kennett Square surrounded by his loving family. He was 83. Born in 1937 in Delaware County, he was the son of the late Anthony Dambro Sr. and the late Maria (Broccoli) Dambro. He lived in Kennett Square for the last thirty-eight years. Tony was a custom builder…
Elizabeth Dorothy Pratola, 95, of Avondale, died Friday, Nov. 27, at her residence. She was the wife of Rafael Pratola who died in 2004, and with whom she shared 56 years of marriage. She was born in West Chester, the daughter of the late Luigi Fidanza and the late Quintillia Ciarrocchi. Mrs. Pratola was a homemaker, but also assisted her husband in the family business.…
Reba H. McLimans, 84, of Oxford, died Tuesday, Nov. 24, , at her residence. She was the wife of William McLimans Sr., with whom she shared 65 years of marriage. Born in Troutdale, Va., she was the daughter of the late J. Clarence Miles and the late Fay DuVall Miles. Mrs. McLimans was employed as a cafeteria manager at the Avon Grove School District, middle…
Philip Edmund Ebert, 91, of Kennett Square, died Thursday, Nov. 19 at Chester County Hospital. Formerly of Chadds Ford, and Wilmington, he had been a resident of Kendal at Longwood Retirement Community for almost three years. Phil was born in 1929 in Milwaukee, Wisc., son of Lutheran Pastor Edmund Philip Ebert and Elsie A. Ebert. He graduated from East Troy High School in 1947 and…
Carlos B. Prigg, 68, of Wernersville, Pa., formerly of Avondale, died Thursday, Nov. 19, at the Reading Hospital. Born in West Chester, he was the son of the late Edward Vermont Prigg Jr. and the late Ethel Lewis Prigg. He was a professional boxer. Prior to that, he had worked with youth groups and also worked for NVF Co., in Yorklyn. He loved playing cards,…
Raymond H. Clarke, Jr., 79, of Hockessin, died peacefully on Wednesday, Nov. 11, after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. Born in 1941, to the late Raymond H. Clarke, Sr. & Hilda M. Sutliff in Flushing, NY, Raymond attended PS 41 in Bayside, N.Y. & Bayside HS. He then went on to pursue his higher education at Fordham University in Bronx, NY. Raymond began his…