\t\t\tJoan M. Odell \t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tOBITUARY\t\t<\/p>\n
Joan M. Odell, 85, of Pittston Township, most recently a resident of Elan Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation, Scranton died Tuesday morning, Dec. 23, 2025, surrounded by family in Geisinger CMC Hospital, Scranton after a brief illness. Her husband, Allison R. Digger Odell, to whom she was married to for 40 years, preceded her in death on July 24, 1998.<\/p>\n
\nBorn in Wilkes Barre on May 27, 1940, she was the daughter of Oscar and Jessie Tripp Ayers. She was a graduate of Falls-Overfield High School and worked in the garment industry as well as being self-employed as a house keeper.<\/p>\n
\nShe was a member of Moosic United Methodist Church and was a member of the Avoca Community Choir for many years.<\/p>\n
\nShe is survived by her son, Kevin Odell and wife, Christine, and daughter Cathy Posluszny and husband, Marvin, all of Dupont. She is also survived by three grandchildren, Alison (Donald) Hudzinski, Jessica (Jack) Lewis and Kevin (Kerri) Odell and two great grandchildren, Michael and Julie Hudzinski, all of Dupont. Joan is survived by a sister-in-law, Eleanor Odell, Duryea.<\/p>\n
\nAlso preceding her in death was a daughter, Donna Odell and a sister, Virginia Dickinson.<\/p>\n
\nThe family would like to thank the doctors and staff at Geisinger CMC and Elan Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation for their care of Joan.<\/p>\n
\nFuneral services will be held 10:00 a.m. Tuesday from the Lokuta-Zawacki Funeral Home 200 Wyoming Ave. Dupont with interment in Marcy Cemetery, Duryea.<\/p>\n
\nFriends may call Tuesday from 9:00 a.m. to 10 a.m.<\/p>\n
\nJoan M. Odell<\/p>\n
\nDecember 23, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joan M. Odell OBITUARY Joan M. Odell, 85, of Pittston Township, most recently a resident of Elan Skilled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-71770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71770","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=71770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}