Sophie Dreabit

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Sophie Dreabit, 91, of Plains, entered into Eternal Light on Saturday March 31, 2012, in the Kindred Hospital, Wilkes-Barre.

She and her late husband George Dreabit celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary on July 28, 2004.

She was born October 8, 1920, in Plains. Sophie was the daughter of the late Paul and Cunegunda Nidzielska Gosiewski. She attended Ss. Peter and Paul Parochial School, Plains and the Plains Public School System. She was a faithful member of Ss.Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Hudson Road, Plains. She did volunteer work at Ss. Peter and Paul’s school cafeteria.

Sophie was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.

In addition to her parents, and husband, she was preceded in death by her brothers,: Frank and Stanley Gosiewski; her sisters, Lottie Westawski, Mary Stavish, and infant sister Josephine.

Surviving are her sons, George and his wife, Ronnie, Wyoming; Robert and his wife Rose, Plains, and Paul and his wife JoAnne, Pittston; her grandchildren, Jason, Christy, Bob, Megan, Jennifer, and P.J.; her great-grandchildren, Jake, Riley, and Laura; her sisters, Florence Kelly, Plains, and Genevieve Sabatini, Chicago, Ill.; several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 9 a.m. from the Simon S. Russin Funeral Home 136 Maffett St. Plains with a Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. in Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Hudson Road, Plains, with the Rev. Joseph Greskiewicz, pastor, officiating. Interment will follow in the parish cemetery, Plains. Family and friends may call Tuesday from 4 to 8 p.m.