Obituary of Patrick Joseph Conway Jr.

Patrick Joseph Conway Jr.,41, of Plains Township, lost his battle with addiction on Thursday, June 27,2019.

Born in Wilkes-Barre on May 11, 1978, he was son to Patrick J Conway Sr. and the late Jeanne Herron Conway.

Patrick grew up in  the Wilkes-Barre area and attended local schools and was a graduate of the Wilkes-Barre Area Vocational School and James M. Coughlin, class of 1997.

Patrick was a welder and a machinist at heart. When he wasn’t working for Medico Industries as a intelligence analyst, you could find him in his dad’s garage with his brothers pulling apart a truck and building another one to go race in the mud bog in Plymouth or take up to Tunkhannock with his family to have a fun weekend. He also enjoyed going hunting and fishing with his brothers and dad and being an amazing uncle to his nieces and nephews who will miss him dearly. 

He is preceded in death by his mother Jeanne Conway, who passed on April 25, 2013.

Surviving Patrick is his father, Patrick J. Conway Sr.; sisters, Mary Alice (Molly) Rosencrans and her husband, James, Wilkes-Barre; Colleen Casterline and her husband, Donald, Mountain Top; and Patricia Meyer and her husband Aaron, Mount Joy; brothers, Timothy Conway and his fiancé Krystal McNeal, Dupont; Brendan Conway and his fiancé Julie Bryk, Pittston Twp.; and Sheamus Conway, Buck Township; nine nieces and nephews, extended family and his two faithful dogs Meathead and Cash.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 12:00 p.m., Monday, July 1, 2019, in Immaculate Conception Church of the Corpus Christi Parish, 605 Luzerne Ave., West Pittston, PA, 18643, with Monsignor John J. Sempa, pastor, officiating. A visitation will be held in church prior to mass from 11:00 a.m. until time of service. Interment will be held will be held privately.

Memorial Donations may be given to the Pennsylvania Wounded Warriors, Inc.,1117 Country Club Road,Dallas, Pa, 17011. http://www.pawoundedwarriors.org 

Arrangements are in the care of the Yanaitis Funeral Home Inc.,55 Stark Street, Plains, Pa, 18705