Rose Irene Meade, two months shy of her 100th birthday, of Mountain Top, died Sunday at Birchwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Nanticoke.

Born in Sugar Notch, she was the daughter of the late Thomas and Bridget McManamon Ginley and was a graduate of St. Charles High School, Sugar Notch.

Being a woman of great faith, she was a member of St. Jude's Church, Mountain Top, and the former St. Catherine's Church.

Rose loved spending time with her family baking and cooking for them. She enjoyed giving her cherished family and friends her handmade crocheted doilies and paintings she created. She was an avid reader, especially poetry and would keep a journal.

In addition to her parents, Rose was preceded in death by her husband, Harry N. Meade; sons, James and Robert Meade; daughter, Janet Keefe; grandsons, James Meade, John Keefe, David Ziminsky and Mark Ziminsky; great-granddaughter, Michalene Dougherty; brothers, Michael, Thomas, Daniel and Eugene Ginley; and sisters, Mary Greiner, Elinor Kearns, Margaret Solomon, Alice Cybuch Holmes, Ruth Wilverding and Theresa Ginley.

She is survived by sons, Thomas Meade, Arkansas; Paul Meade, Mountain Top, Harry Meade, Nanticoke; daughters, Rose Ziminsky, Kingston, and Kathy Green, Mountain Top; brother, John Ginley, Wilkes-Barre; 19 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren; 11 great-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at Desiderio-Lehman Funeral and Cremation, Mountain Top, with Mass of Christian Burial in St. Jude's Church, Mountain Top. The Rev. J. Evanko will officiate. Interment will follow in Albert Cemetery, Mountain Top.

Friends are invited to join the family Wednesday at the funeral home and until the service on Thursday.

Published in the Citizens' Voice on Sept. 18, 2019