Doris Garinger

Doris Garinger of Tunkhannock died Thursday September 6th in the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. She was born March 22 1930 on Corby Hill, Eaton Township Wyoming County, daughter of the late Clarence and Ethel Brown Sickler. She was a 1948 graduate of Tunkhannock Area High School and was very active in the Free Methodist Church Bowman’s Creek. She taught Sunday school in the church for 60 years, served as church secretary for 50 years, church treasurer for 35 year and served as a delegate to the Free Methodist New York Conference for 20 years. Doris served as president of the Bowman’s Creek Women’s Missionary Society and was president of Women’s Ministries International for 15 years. She served on the Year Round School Committee for the Tunkhannock Area School District then the Citizens Advisory Council until 2002. She was preceded in death by her loving husband Albert Garinger in 1991, and a brother Carl Sickler. Surviving are sons; Verlin Garinger and wife Renee and Mark Garinger and wife Kelly; grandson Roy Travis, and granddaughter Meridian Garinger all of Evans Falls. Also surviving are brothers Leland Sickler and wife Joan of Nicholson and John Sickler of Tunkhannock; sisters Ms. Elizabeth Sickler of Evans Falls, Grace Rogers of Jenks, Clara Traver and husband Rodney of Bowman’s Creek and Carol Chisenhall of Evans Falls. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, September 8th, at 12 pm from the Bowman’s Creek Free Methodist Church with Pastor Lynn Mokwa Pastor of the Bowman’s Creek Free Methodist Church presiding. Interment will be in South Eaton Cemetery. Friends may call at the church on Saturday from 10 am until the time of the service. Arrangements by Sheldon-Kukuchka Funeral Home, Inc., 73 W. Tioga St., Tunkhannock, PA. Those wishing may make memorial contributions to the Free Methodist Church of Bowman’s Creek, 2605 SR 29 S., Monroe Township, PA 18657. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.sheldonkukuchkafuneralhome.com.