Local Obituaries Reported March 17

The Post provides direct links to locally relevant obituaries available at funeral home websites. Today’s (March 17, 2023) compilation consists of six obituaries. It includes the names, ages, local connections, dates of passing, and brief funeral home references for the deceased.

Joann M. (McLaughlin) Banks, 77, of Royersford, March 14, Catagnus

Irene Josephine Houck, 96, of Wernersville, employed in Pottstown, March 14, Stitzel

Karin Maurer, 72, of Lower Pottsgrove Township and formerly of Trappe, March 14, Catagnus

Harold E. “Pop” Schultz, 96, of East Greenville, survivors in East Greenville and Pennsburg, March 14, Mann-Slonaker

George Donald Buchanan, 88, of Harleysville, March 12, Williams-Bergey-Koffel

Ethel (Peters) Castor, 90, of Lansdale and formerly of Harleysville, March 9, Williams-Bergery-Koffel

About the obituary links

• The Post links only to obituaries that appear on funeral home websites, and occasionally to websites of known and trusted providers. It does not accept privately submitted obituaries.
• The Post does not write, edit, republish, or in any way alter any obituaries to which it links. The format, content, and copyrights of obituaries are owned, controlled, displayed at the websites of, and can be modified only by, their funeral home owner-publishers.
• The Post does not charge any fees to link to obituaries. Its intent is to provide a newsworthy service to its readers and, more broadly, its communities.

Represented in The Post lists

• Boyd Horrox-Givnish Funeral Home, Norristown PA
• Ervina White Beauford Funeral Service PC, Pottstown PA and Philadelphia PA
• Campbell-Ennis-Klotzbach Funeral Home Inc., Phoenixville PA, and Cattermole-Klotzbach Funeral Home, Royersford PA
• Catagnus Funeral Home & Cremation Center Inc., Pottstown PA, Royersford PA, Gilbertsville PA, and Trappe PA
• Cremation Society of Pennsylvania Inc., King of Prussia PA, Harrisburg PA, and Pittsburgh PA
• Dengler Funeral Home Inc., Birdsboro PA
• Devlin, Rosmos, Kepp & Gatcha Funeral Home & Cremation Services Inc., Phoenixville PA
• Falk Funeral Homes & Crematory Inc., Pennsburg PA and Hellertown PA
• Holcombe Funeral Home Inc., Trappe PA
• Houck & Gofus Funeral Home & Cremation Services Inc., Pottstown PA
• Huff and Lakjer Funeral Home Inc., Lansdale PA
• Mann-Slonaker Funeral Home, East Greenville PA
• Moore, Snear and Ruggiero Funeral Home & Crematory Inc., Trappe PA, East Norriton PA, and Conshohocken PA
• Morrell Funeral Home Inc., Boyertown PA
• Linwood W. Ott Funeral Home Inc., Boyertown PA
• Raffeo-DiCecco Memorial Home Inc., Norristown PA
• Schumacher & Benner Funeral Home & Crematory, Pottstown PA
• Stitzel Family Funeral Homes & Crematory Inc., Oley PA and Reading PA
• R. Strunk & Shallkop Grace & Strunk Funeral Homes, Spring City PA and Phoenixville PA
• Volpe Funeral Home, Norristown PA
• Warker-Troutman Funeral Home Inc., Pottstown PA
• R.L. Williams Jr. Funeral Home Inc., Skippack PA
• Williams-Bergey-Koffel Funeral Home, Telford PA

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