Citizens' Voice from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania • 31

Witness links Osellanie to van used to transport murder victim Adam J. Hozempa Adam J. Hozempa, 76, of Harveys Lake, died Wednesday in Nesbitt Memorial Hospital. Born in Kingston, son of the late Adam and Anna Pistycotty Hozempa, he was a graduate of Edwardsville High School and attended Wilkes College. He was an Army veteran of World War II, having served in the Pacific Theater.

In 1957, Mr. Hozempa founded Adam's Clothes in the Back Mountain Shopping Center, Shavertown. A resident of Harveys Lake for the last 40 years, he was a former resident of Edwardsville and was a past president of the Edwardsville Lions Club and the Edwardsville Business and Merchants Association. He was a life member of the Edwardsville Am Vets and a member of the VFW Anthracite Post, Kingston. Mr.

Hozempa was a member of Our Lady of Victory Church, Harveys Lake, and its Holy Name Society. He was preceded in death by a sister, Isabelle Kazmierski, and by brothers, Alfred and Alphonse. Surviving are his wife, the former Anne Connole; daughter, Beth Kimble, Fresno, son, Adam Tunkhannock; two granddaughters; sisters, Helen Plumb, Suitland, Hedy Pittz, Redwood City, brother, Dr. Stanley Hozempa, Shavertown; nieces and nephews. Funeral will be held Saturday at 10 from the Harold C.

Snowdon Funeral Home, 140 N. Main Shavertown, with Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 in Our Lady of Victory Church. Interment will be in St. John's Cemetery, Dallas. Friends may call Friday, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9.

Stella Zelno Funeral services have been set for Stella Zelno, 99, of 240 Main Eynon, who died Monday in Community Medical Center, Scranton, after she was involved in an accident on Interstate 81 in Scranton. Mrs. Zelno was born in Vilna, Poland, a daughter of the late Joseph and Lena Savage, and to this country at the age of came nine. She resided in Eynon the last 90 years where she was a member of St. Mary of Czestochowa Church, and was the oldest member of its Sacred Heart and Altar and Rosary societies.

Her husband, Onufry Zelno, died in 1957. She also was preceded in death by Edmund, Walter, and sons, Mostowski, and brothers, Ben Stanley; sister, Josephine and Michael. Surviving are sons, Thomas, Eynon; Richard, Raleigh, N.C.; Peckville; daughters, Mrs. Ben, Michael Maskal, Eynon; Mrs. Polidori, with whom she Alfred resided; Mrs.

Helen Poplarchick, Utica, N.Y.; Mrs. Edward Grasavage, Pittston; 27 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews. will be held Thursday at Funeral 9:30 from the Arthur Albini Funeral Home, 1003 Church Jessup, in with Mass of Christian Burial 10 St. Interment will be in the Mary of Czestochowa Church, Eynon. parish cemetery.

Carol Fay Knorr Miss Carol Fay Knorr, 40, of 169 Oliver Swoyersville, died Wednesday morning in Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center. Born Aug. 17, 1949, in Berwick, she was the daughter of Marian Neff Knorr, Nescopeck, and the late Woodrow Knorr. She lived in Swoyersville for the last five years and previously, resided in Selinsgrove and Nescopeck. She was employed by the United Rehabilitation Center, WilkesBarre.

Surviving, in addition to her mother, are brothers and sisters, Walter E. Minnick, Dover, Colin Knorr, Redwood, N.Y.; Mrs. Thomas (Linda) Hurley, Nescopeck; Susan Payne, Stuart, nieces and nephews. Private funeral services will be held from the Heller Funeral Home, Nescopeck, with Rev. Mark L.

Russell, pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Nescopeck, officiating. Interment will be in Elan Memorial Park, Lime Ridge. There will be no calling hours. Memorial donations may be made to the Fourth Floor and ICU at Geisinger Wyomng Valley Medical Center, or to the Memorial Fund of St.

Mark's Lutheran Church. Memorial service A memorial service for Ruth H. Shaver, 96, of Fort Lauderdale, and formerly of Shavertown, will be held Saturday, June 9 at 10 a.m. in the Shavertown United Methodist Church. Pastor James Wert will officiate.

Mrs. Shaver died March 30 in Fort Lauderdale. Deaths CASSESE, Sr. M. Joseph RSM GODEK, Edmund G.

HOZEMPA, Adam J. KNORR, Miss Carol Fay NAMEY, Elias Leo NICKL, Jacob S. ROBERTS, Raymond SMITH, H. Katherine TURNER, Stella Swartz ULICHNEY, Stephen W. ZELNO, Stella ZIOMEK, Eugene J.

Eugene J. Ziomek Eugene J. Ziomek, 13 College Hill, Wanamie, died Wednesday afternoon in the Veterans Administration Medical Center following anillness. Born in Wanamie, Newport Township, a son of the late John and Mary Mazur Ziomek, he lived in Wanamie his entire life, and until his retirement, was employed by the Glen Alden Coal Nanticoke. He was a Navy veteran of World War II and a member of American Legion Post 971, Wanamie.

Mr. Ziomek served as a commissioner for Newport Township and was president of the Wanamie Local United Mine Workers of America. He was a member of Holy Trinity Church, Nanticoke. Surviving are his wife, the former Frances Knopka Grabinski; step-sons, Richard Grabinski, Wanamie; Joseph Grabinski, Wyandotte, five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; brothers, Edwin and Walter, Wanamie; Joseph, Glen Lyon; Raymond, Wilkes-Barre; sisters, Mildred Ziomek, Loretta Capece and Irene Stuart, all of Wanamie. Funeral will be held Saturday at 9 from the George A.

Strish Inc. Funeral Home, 211 W. Main Glen Lyon, with a Funeral Mass at 9:30 in Holy. Trinity Church. Interment will be in the parish cemetery.

Friends may call Friday, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9. Silver and Gold Club meets June 12 The Silver and Gold Club will meet on Tuesday, June 12, at 1 p.m. in St. Vincent's Social Room. Rev.

Loren Swartz will be a guest and he will show slides of historical sites. Reservations for the Aug. 14 picnic will be taken at the meeting and at the July meeting. Cost is $6.50. Mrs.

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Since the trial began last week, Lackawanna County District Attorney Michael Barrasse has called 36 witnesses in an attempt to show Osellanie used the van he was repairing to dump Renee's body near state Route 307. Barrasse alleges Osellanie returned the van to its owner by 10:30 p.m. the night of the murder. Witness Robert Loney, a security guard for a car dealership near Osellanie's repair garage, testified he saw the defendant getting into the van between 10 p.m. and 10:15 p.m.

Two employees of Diamond Auto Glass testified they could place Osellanie on Route 307 the night of the murder. Warehouse manager Marty Walsh testified Osellanie called CiTiZENS' VoicE CLASSIFIED Phone 821-2020 him the day after the murder to say that he had seen a Diamond A company truck in an accident on Route 307 the previous night. 8 Jay Shaffer, who is in charge of Diamond's company trucks, said because Osellanie maintained the firm's vehicles, he took him to retrieve the damaged truck the day after the accident. Osellanie mentioned he had seen the acci-7 dent the previous night, Shaffer said. Ale Seafood By GIANT COW, Rt.

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