First Posted: 6/1/2008

Elsie Bernotas, 87, of Mt. View Nursing Home, Scranton, died, May 25, 2008, at Scranton CMC.
Born in Scranton, she was a daughter of the late Harry and Jennie Hawkins Thorpe. She was employed by the former Mayflower Manufacturing.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Leonard; one grandson; three brothers, Thomas, William and Robert; and two sisters, Beatrice Ogden and Alice Beadle.
Surviving are son Carlyle Kapp and his wife, Marie, of Ransom; three grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandson; niece Eleanor Roberta Cicanic, of Warmister, Pa.; nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be private. Arrangements are by the Bernard J. Piontek Funeral Home Inc., 204 Main St., Duryea.