Michalene Chabon (nee Michelina Casula), aged 95, passed away peacefully on Sunday, October 5, 2025. Beloved wife for 53 years to the late Nicholas Chabon. Michalene was born in Shenandoah, PA, the daughter of Italian immigrant parents Christopher Casula, a coal miner, and Frances Casula, a homemaker, and the last surviving sibling of their 11 children. She was preceded in death by her twin sister Patricia, her sisters Antoinette Addazio, Anne Casula, Jeanne Casula, Mary Romig, and her brothers, Frank Casula, Joseph Casula, and infant siblings Antonianna Casula, Giovanni Andrea Casula, and Giovanni Casula. She is survived by her sister-in-law Jean, nephews Christopher (Andrea) Casula, Patrick (Lesley) Casula, Ed (Susan)Collevecchio, Stephen (Suzanne) Chabon, Greg (Allison) Chabon, nieces Frances Addazio, Donna (Thomas Llewellyn) Martin, Carolyn (Jeff) Blondin and many grandnephews, grandnieces, great-grandnephews and great-grandnieces, as well as great-great-grandnephews and great-great-grandnieces.
Michalene was known as Mickey to her close family and friends. She graduated from J.W. Cooper High School, Bloomsburg State Teachers College (Class of ‘52) now known as Commonwealth University - Bloomsburg, and also earned a Masters Degree in Education from Penn State University. She was a dedicated and inspiring teacher for 44 years, earning numerous awards and a scholarship dedicated in her name. She and her husband were members of St. John Chrysostom Church, Wallingford.
A funeral mass will be held on Saturday, October 18, 10 am, at St. John Chrysostom Church, 617 S. Providence Road, Wallingford, PA. Interment will be in SS Peter and Paul Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions to St. John Chrysostom Church would be appreciated.
Michalene was known as Mickey to her close family and friends. She graduated from J.W. Cooper High School, Bloomsburg State Teachers College (Class of ‘52) now known as Commonwealth University - Bloomsburg, and also earned a Masters Degree in Education from Penn State University. She was a dedicated and inspiring teacher for 44 years, earning numerous awards and a scholarship dedicated in her name. She and her husband were members of St. John Chrysostom Church, Wallingford.
A funeral mass will be held on Saturday, October 18, 10 am, at St. John Chrysostom Church, 617 S. Providence Road, Wallingford, PA. Interment will be in SS Peter and Paul Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions to St. John Chrysostom Church would be appreciated.