Mary Ann (Fedeles) Sokola

Mary Ann Sokola, 80, of Minersville passed away Wednesday at Geisinger St. Luke’s Hospital, Orwigsburg.   

Born in Pottsville, she was the daughter of the late Stephen and Mary Kralick Fedeles.

Mary Ann worked for the former St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, and St. Matthew’s Church, Minersville, worked for the ROTC at Lafyette College, and also spent time working in Washington D.C. She was a 1961 Graduate of Nativity B.V.M. high school and also belonged to the Minersville Quilters Club. She was a former member of Sts. Peter & Paul Byzantine Catholic Church, Minersville, the former St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Minersville, and was a member of St. Matthew’s Church of Holy Family Parish, Minersville.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband John in 2014 and a brother Stephen Fedeles in 2020.

Mary Ann is survived by two sons, Neil, Minersville and Brian with his wife Knar, New York City; two grandchildren, Lucine and Aleksander; two sisters, Paulette Murphy and her husband Vincent, and Jayne Hontz and her husband Robert, both of West West Terrace, and a sister-in-law, Pat Fedeles, Florida, as well as several nieces and nephews.

Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Tuesday at 10:30 AM in St Matthew’s Church of Holy Family Parish, 139 Spruce St., Minersville. Relatives and friends can call on Monday evening from 6 to 8 PM and on Tuesday morning from 8 to 10AM at the Donald J. Butler Funeral Home, 328 Sunbury St., Minersville. Interment will be in St Stanislaus #2 Cemetery, Minersville.  

The family would prefer remembrances in the form of contributions in memory of Mary Ann to the Hillside SPCA, P.O. Box 233, 51 SPCA Road, Pottsville, Pa. 17901. Contributions will be accepted at the funeral home. To offer condolences to the family or to light a candle in Mary Ann’s memory, visit us at donaldjbutlerfh.com.

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