Ann Budzak Baker, 94 of Pittston, PA, passed away on Tuesday, December 17, 2024. Her husband, Joseph J. Baker, passed away in 2010.
Born in Hughestown, On March 14, 1930, she was the daughter of the late Simon and Pauline Lizak Budzak. She attended Saint John the Baptist grade school and Hughestown High School, class of 1947.
Ann was a member of Saint Mary’s Assumption parish and later Our Lady of the Eucharist, Pittston.
She was a kind and loving person who will be greatly missed by her children, grandchildren and great- grandchildren.
Ann was one of 10 children and was preceded in death by brothers, Samuel, John, Joseph, Steven and Andrew Budzak; sisters, Mary White, Elizabeth Cady, Irene Bolinski and Rosalie Ardo.
Surviving are daughters Joan Dowd and husband, Michael, Pittston Twp., Barbara Baker, Pittston and Joyce Ann Piechota and husband, Henry, Dupont. Grandchildren; Kevin Dowd and wife, Julie, Philadelphia, Stephen Baker and wife, Kelly, Mountain Top, Brian Dowd, Boston MA, and Jennifer Piechota, Dupont. Great-grandchildren Savannah, Lilyana, Colton, Rory, Colin, Patrick, Isla and Daisy, and numerous nieces and nephews.
A mass of Christian burial will be celebrated Saturday December 21, 2024, at 10am in Our Lady of the Eucharist, 535 N. Main Street, Pittston.
The family will receive friends and relatives from 9am until time of mass in the church.
Interment will follow in the parish cemetery, Hughestown.
Arrangements are entrusted to Adonizio Funeral Home, LLC, Pittston.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to. Meals on Wheels, 59 S. Main Street, Pittston 18640, or St. Ann’s Monastery and Shrine Basilica, 1233 St Ann Street, Scranton 18504.