Carole M. Haverlak

Carole M. Haverlak, Registered Nurse, 81, of Mountain Top, fell asleep in the Lord, late Wednesday evening, December 31, 2025, under the care of Allied Services Hospice Center, Wilkes Barre.

She was born at home in Glen Lyon, on April 27, 1944.

Early in life, her family moved from Glen Lyon to Lake Blytheburn. Carole attended St. Leo’s High School in Ashley, and graduated from St. Nicholas High School, Wilkes Barre, class of 1962. She then attended and graduated from the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing and became a Registered Nurse in 1965.

Carole had a long career and loved nursing. She and her husband, Gene, a career Air Force Officer, lived in various locations where she gained tremendous experience as an RN. Those locations included hospitals in Dayton, OH, Sumter, SC, and Denver, Co. before returning to the area. Carole’s professional dream was to become a nursing supervisor, a dream which she attained working for General Hospital as well as the former Mercy Hospital, Wilkes Barre, until retiring in 2006.

She greatly enjoyed spending time with many nursing support groups formed from friendships and bonds between nursing school classmates and friends from different locations where she worked. They met often and enjoyed spending hours together at luncheons.

To relax, Carole loved to knit Afghan blankets and give them to her many friends.

Carole was preceded in death by her parents, Anna and Edward Rozmyslovicz (Ross) of Mountain Top and her sister, Patrica Hill, and her husband, Robert Hill of NJ.

Surviving is her beloved husband, Colonel Gene Haverlak, USAF, (ret.) with whom she shared 59 years of marriage; sons, Lt Col Luke Haverlak, US Army (Ret.) and his wife, Mary, of Tampa, Florida; and Derrick Haverlak and his wife, Sharon, of Laflin; grandchildren, Levi, Noah, Payton, Connor, and Bridget; sisters, Joan Graves, RN, and her husband, Col. William Daly, US Army (Ret.) of Florida; and sister MaryKay Sandborn MD, and her husband, Richard, of Mexico; as well as many nieces and nephews.

Visitation hours for family and friends to pay final respects will be available Saturday, January 17 from 9:00 to 10 a.m. at Dinelli Family Funeral Home, 170 East Broad Street Nanticoke.

Funeral service and Divine Liturgy will be held on Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 10:30 a.m. at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church, 17 East Kirmar Avenue, Alden. His Eminence Archbishop Melchisdeck, Metropolitan of the Palestinian Orthodox Church in America, officiating.

Private interment will be at a later date at St. Vladimir’s Cemetery, Alden.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you simply say a prayer for Carole.