\t\t\tNicholas Dunkailo Dunkailo \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
Nicholas Dunkailo, 90, of West Scranton, after a long well lived life, passed late Friday night at the Allied Hospice Center, Scranton. He was the husband of the late Mary Wedlock Dunkailo who passed in 2007.<\/p>\n
\nBorn in Scranton, he is the son of the late William and Anna (Stanko) Dunkailo. Nicholas was a graduate of West Scranton High School and served as a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. After his Honorable Discharge from the Marines, he worked at Tobyhanna Army Depot until his retirement.<\/p>\n
\nNick was a volunteer for 20 plus years for Meals on Wheels, where he enjoyed his routine, making friends, and helping those in need, and was a volunteer at the Sloan Little League helping in any way needed. Nick was a co-founder of the Northeast Detachment Marine Corps League, serving in many rolls up until his illness.<\/p>\n
\nHe is survived by his children; Nicholas Dunkailo, Scranton, Deborah Dunkailo Gudaitis, Taylor, Kelly McClelland, Scranton, 2 grandsons, Matthew Gudaitis & wife Elizabeth, Dickson City, Jason McClelland, Scranton, 4 great grandchildren; Marcus, Cloe, Sterling & Rowan Gudaitis, his sister; Louise Zinsky, Throop, Companion, Linda Surplus and many nieces & nephews.<\/p>\n
\nHe was predeceased by his wife Mary, Parents, 6 brothers; Harry, Peter, Michael, William, John & Walter Dunkailo, 3 sisters; Mary Plishka, Anne DeFelice & Alice Coar.<\/p>\n
\nNick\u2019s family thanks the Allied Hospice nurses & staff for the excellent & compassionate care, Dr. Donald Preate Jr. for his dedicated care, his home health caregivers; Laurie Battle, April Brown & Tim Vancosky as well as his neighborhood friends that assisted Nick through the years.<\/p>\n
\nFamily & Friends are invited to his viewing on Wednesday, 4 to 7 PM with a Parastas Service commencing at 6:30 pm.<\/p>\n
\nA Funeral Service will be on Thursday at 10 am in the Edward J. Chomko Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 262 Railroad Avenue, West Scranton.<\/p>\n
\nInterment will follow at Fairview Memorial Park, Elmhurst Twp., with Military Honors accorded by the United States Marine Corps and the Dickson City Veterans Honor Guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicholas Dunkailo Dunkailo OBITUARY Nicholas Dunkailo, 90, of West Scranton, after a long well lived life, passed late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-315407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}