In Memory

Tim Lavelle

A 21-year-old Scranton man was killed and three other students from Bloomsburg State College were injured when a car went off Route 80, slammed into an embankment and flipped over several times near Danville at 1:10 AM Sunday.

Timothy J Lavelle, son of James J. and Elizabeth Rodgers Lavelle, 1120 Columbia St., was pronounced dead on arrival at Bloomsburg Hospital.

State police at Milton State Police Substation said the mishap occurred approximately 4 miles east of the Danville interchange of Route 80.

Born in the city, young Lavelle was a senior at Bloomsburg State College and a 1965 graduate of Central High School. He was a member of Saint Clare's Church and the Scuba Diving Club of Scranton. At college he was a member of the Literary and Film Society.

The victim was a grandson of the late Michael Lavelle, founder of the Old Home Bakery and one of the best known, most prominent Scrantonians for upward of half a century.

Surviving in addition to his parents are four brothers, Michael J., Rochester; Richard, a law student at Villanova University; Christopher and Philip at home; and the maternal grandmother Mrs. Ted Rogers Sr., this city.

The funeral will be Wednesday at the Cusick Funeral Home, 217 Jefferson Ave., with mass in St. Clare's Church at a time to be announced. Internment, Saint Catherine's Cemetery, Moscow. Friends may call today 7 to 10 PM, thereafter 2 to 5, 7 to 10 PM.