Helen M. Synoracki, of Williamsport, passed away on Saturday, June 22, 2019, at Valley View Rehab and Nursing Center. Helen celebrated her 91st birthday in May at Valley View, which had been her loving home for the past eight and a half years.
Born in Hudson, PA on May 29, 1928, Helen was the daughter of the late George and Eva (Jablonski) Baran. She was married to her loving husband Thaddeus (Ted) for 60 years prior to his death in April 2011.
Helen is survived by her five children: Monica and her husband Stephen Thaler of Williamsport, Stephen and his wife Mary of Bethlehem, PA, Bernard and his wife Vicki of Williamsport, Adele and her husband Thomas Forquer of Williamsport, and Daniel and his wife Kim of Lancaster, PA. Helen also has eleven grandchildren: Brent, Stephanie, Kaitlyn, Logan, Olivia, Neil, Nolan, Trisha, Joshua, Alecia, and Hayden. She also has five great-grandchildren: Landon, Christian, Callah, Jameson, and Kinsley.
Helen was a member of St. Joseph the Worker Roman Catholic Church and the former Holy Rosary Church in Newberry. A woman of strong faith and perseverance, she helped raise five children and took care of her husband for nearly 30 years after he suffered several major health issues in his fifties. In Helen’s younger days, she attended St. Joseph’s School in Plains, PA, but relinquished her latter years of high school to help her widowed mother of nine children around the home. Having a strong work ethic and an eye for quality, Helen also worked as a floor supervisor for uniform seamstresses at the A. Rifkin Company in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
Helen was a loving mother and wife that embraced her vocation as a career homemaker, where she enjoyed cooking, baking, sewing and running a busy household like clockwork. She helped instill the importance of the Catholic faith and hard work ethic into her children, along with a love for their Polish heritage. Her sacrifices in putting family and serving others above herself throughout the years was very evident to her children, husband, friends and neighbors. She was loved by many and shared her spunkiness and charm with her co-residents and the nursing staff at Valley View during the last chapters of her life until the very end. She will be missed by many.
Family and friends may call Wednesday, June 26, at Crouse Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 133 East Third St. in Williamsport, from 6 to 8 PM. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated, Thursday, June 27 at St. Joseph the Worker Parish, 702 West Fourth St. at 10 AM with internment at Resurrection Cemetery in Montoursville, PA.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in memory of Helen may be made to Valley View Rehab and Nursing Center (2140 Warrensville Road, Montoursville, Pa 17754).
