Martha R. Riedmiller
February 22, 2011
Martha R. Riedmiller, 96, died Tuesday evening in the Mountain View Care Center
after a brief illness; she had been living in Taylor for the past three months
at the home of her care givers Beverly and Jim Pappa.
She was born August 9, 1914 in Dunmore the daughter of the late Bernard and
Julia Kostige Riedmiller. She was a
member of Christ the King Church; now the parish community of Immaculate
Conception. In her younger years she
lived in South Scranton, attended Nativity of Our Lord Church and helped with
the church bookkeeping. She loved
to learn and graduated from Lackawanna Business School and later attended
Marywood College. She worked in the
Globe Store as a bookkeeper, teaching others and making lifelong friends.
She went on to work for the Pennsylvania Power & Light Company retiring
after many years as head cashier.
She spent much of her childhood with her grandmother on the farm.
She was a woman ahead of her times, she
drove and owned a car from the age of 18 years old, driving to Florida many
times, always taking friends and family on vacation.
She was a caretaker to many; devoted to
her parents; she never married but had a companion Charlie, for many years until
his death.
Surviving are cousins, Jack Kostige, Nicholson, who she was very close too;
Harry Kostige and his wife Ginny, Lakeville; her friends and caregiver Beverly
Steinmetz Pappa, who Martha called “Baby,” Beverly’s husband Jim Pappa and their
family Farrah Pappa, Alycia and her children Noah and Carter.
Friends, Paul Steinmetz and his wife Toni, Nicholson.
She was preceded in death by a brother, George Riedmiller.
Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday at 10 a.m. in the Immaculate
Conception Church, 801 Taylor Avenue, Scranton.
Interment will follow in Saint Catherine’s Cemetery, Covington Township.
There will be no public calling hours.
Those attending the funeral mass are asked to go directly to Immaculate
Conception Church.
