Christine A. Place

Christine A. Place, 92 of Tunkhannock went home to the Lord Sunday. January 15, 2012. Christine was born in Lemon Twp., Wyoming County on September 29, 1919, daughter of the late Harold and Mary L. Kolip Dix. Christine grew up on a farm in Lemon Twp., was a graduate of Tunkhannock High School class of 1937. She loved to knit, crochet and cook, for most of her married life she was a housewife, she retired from Tyler Memorial Hospital where she worked in the kitchen for over 20 years. Christine was a 50 years member of the Eastern Star Chapter #74 of Tunkhannock and the Tunkhannock United Methodist Church. Christine was preceded in death by her husband Luman S. Place who she married in 1939, brothers Jesse and Charles Dix, granddaughter Jessica Fegley and grandson Casey Jennings. Surviving are daughters Kay and husband Robert Johnson of Tunkhannock, Carol and husband Rodger Fegley of Lavelle, Pa., Vida and husband Edward Jennings of Stowell, Pa., Diane and husband David Dobrinski of Tunkhannock, son Jack and wife Aimee’ Place of Greeneville, Tenn., 11 grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday at 11 am from the Sheldon-Kukuchka Funeral Home Inc., 73 W. Tioga St., Tunkhannock with Rev. Peter Geschwindner, Pastor of the Tunkhannock United Methodist Church. Interment will be in Sunnyside Cemetery, Tunkhannock. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6 to 8. Order of the Eastern Star services will be conducted by Eastern Star Chapter #74 of Tunkhannock at 7:30. On line condolences may be sent to the family at www.sheldonkukuchkafuneralhome.com.