Audrey Welch

Audrey Shaffer Welch of Hobbs Road Tunkhannock passed away on Monday, January 2 in the Tyler Memorial Hospital, Tunkhannock. She was born in Shaffer Hollow Eaton Township on April 5, 1929 daughter of the late William and Katie Cleveland Shaffer. She was a 1946 graduate of Tunkhannock High School and was preceded in death by brothers Frank and Homer Shaffer, and sisters Elizabeth Strickland and Edith Kester. Surviving is her husband of 25 years, James W. Welch Sr, daughter Peggie Hobbs of Tunkhannock, sister Eleanor Dunlap of Mehoopany grandsons Christopher Drew Hobbs of Tunkhannock, Roland (Ron) Hobbs of Gennette PA great-grandchildren Mackenzie Gabriel and Eirene Hobbs and nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held on Thursday at 11 am from the Sheldon-Kukuchka Funeral Home, 73 W. Tioga St. Tunkhannock with Pastor Lori Robinson of the Eatonville United Methodist church officiating. Interment will be in Sunnyside Cemetery Tunkhannock. Friends may call at the funeral home on Wednesday from 6 – 8 pm. Those wishing may make memorial contributions to Triton Hose Company PO Box 765, Tunkhannock, PA 18657 or to the Eatonville United Methodist Church, Church Rd., Tunkhannock, PA 18657.