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October 27, 2007
Margaret M. McIntyre, 74, of Manhattan Street, Ashley, died peacefully, Saturday, October 27, 2007, at Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre, surrounded by her loving family.
Born January 31, 1933, in Ashley, she was a daughter of the late Raymond J. and Margaret Oakes McIntyre.
She was a graduate of St. Leo’s High School in Ashley and the Wilkes-Barre Business School.
Prior to her retirement, she had been employed in the accounting department of Bell Telephone.
She was a member of St. Leo’s/Holy Rosary Parish, Ashley.
Margaret was very dedicated to her family and was a second mother to her many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her brothers, Father Raymond McIntyre, Frank, Edmund, Robert and Thomas McIntyre; her sisters, Mary McIntyre and Eileen Beddall.
She is survived by sisters, Sr. Raymond Mary McIntyre, I.H.M., of Ashley, and Gail Dymond, of Penn Lake; sisters-in-law, Maureen McIntyre, of Reading, and Marie McIntyre, of Wilkes-Barre; 24 nieces and nephews; more than 40 grandnieces and nephews.
Family and friends are invited to attend a funeral Mass at 10 a.m. Tuesday in St. Leo’s/Holy Rosary Church, 33 Manhattan St., Ashley, with the Rev. Thomas J. O’Malley and the Rev. John Chmil, officiating. Interment will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Hanover Township. Friends may call on Monday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Nat & Gawlas Funeral Home, 89 Park Ave., Wilkes-Barre.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the I.H.M. Center, 2300 Adams Ave., Scranton, PA 18509; or St. Leo’s/Holy Rosary Parish, 33 Manhattan St., Ashley, PA 18706.