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We recently lost one of our long time members and friends. Eric Aigeldinger passed away.

He was born in Wilkes-Barre on Sept. 14, 1952, he was the son of the late Francis (Bud) & Ethel French Aigeldinger.He was a graduate of Crestwood High School & he received an associate degree from Penn State University.

Eric served as a police officer for the Fairview Twp. Police Department for 31 years and then served with the Luzerne County Sheriff's Department for 15 years, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Deputy, until his retirement. He served with the Crestwood School District Board of Education for 30 years. He was a very active member of the Mountain Top Historical Society. He served as a board member for both the Mountain Top Hose Company No. 1 & the Mountain Top Area Association Ambulance. 

Eric was a fixture at our annual bazaar and other events, volunteering long hours in the kitchen and contributing his time to support the Hose Company. We will forever be grateful to Eric for his contributions to MTHC. Thank you Eric, you were a good friend.

Joseph Intelicato of Mountain Top, PA died Monday, March 17, 2025, 

Joe was a graduate of East Brunswick High School in NJ. Following graduation, he began working at his father’s store, Gasper’s Sporting Goods, in Mountain Top. It was at this store that customer, and former police chief, John Saxe encouraged Joe to pursue a career in law enforcement. A few years later, Joe began his career as an officer with Fairview Township, where he retired as Chief after serving his community for 45 years. Even though Joe was grandfathered in when training became mandatory, he enrolled in the third class at the State Police training center in Wyoming, PA.

In the years of serving his community, Joe was also a member of the Wyoming Valley FOP (Lodge 36), the Northeast Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association, the Luzerne County Chiefs of Police Association, and the Pennsylvania Narcotic Officers Association. Joe was also a parishioner of St. Jude’s Church in Mountain Top.

He is survived by his loving wife, Mary Anne (Williamson) Intelicato, daughters Jennifer Intelicato, Jodi Intelicato Walent (Dave), stepdaughters Melanie Leo (Keith Yekel), and Emily Hagenbach (Steven), grandchildren Samantha and Dylan Young, Foster and Flora Walent, and Parker and Rhyland Hagenbach, as well as numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

Anneliese Moghul, a resident of Mountaintop for 55 years, passed away October 24. Anneliese was a prominent member of her community. She was a writer for the Mountaintop Eagle for nearly twenty years and an occasional contributor to the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. She volunteered with Mountaintop On The Move (including serving a term as president), was a member of the Postal Customer Council in Wilkes-Barre (which included lobbying to keep a branch of the post office open and located in Mountaintop), and volunteered as a nurse at local American Red Cross blood drives.

In 2005, in memory of her husband’s passing, she bequeathed a large donation to the Marian Sutherland Kirby Library in Mountaintop for the Tassadduk Moghul, MD Memorial Reading Room. In 2018 Anneliese was named Grand Marshal for the annual Fourth of July parade in Mountaintop. She supported many local and national charities, and for many years was a major donor to WVIA-FM and Mountaintop Hose Company #1.

Anneliese was born in Berlin, Germany. During the Second World War, she, her mother, and younger sister were evacuated from the city. Upon their return to Berlin following the war, they faced total devastation and hardship. Since Germany’s universities had not yet been fully rebuilt, she studied nursing in the United Kingdom, graduating as a state registered nurse. Anneliese added two more years in obstetrics, graduating as a state certified midwife. During her student nursing years, she met Tassadduk Moghul, MD, a native of Pakistan who was completing his surgical residency in the UK. The couple were married in Germany – in Berlin’s only mosque – on August 28, 1954. They moved to Pakistan where they lived for one year, while exploring immigration options to the United States. Having secured a sponsorship from a professor of surgery at Harvard University, the couple settled in Boston. Anneliese immediately began working as an operating room nurse at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and successfully passed the American exam to become a Registered Nurse (RN). In 1962, she and her husband were sworn in as naturalized American citizens. Her husband, working as a surgeon for the US Department of Veterans Affairs, was posted to VA medical centers in the Adirondacks and Manchester, NH. His final transfer was to the VA Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre in 1970 and the couple relocated to Mountaintop that year.

Following the birth of the couple’s son, Alan, Anneliese was a homemaker and pursued numerous volunteer and philanthropic pursuits. In addition to writing for the local newspapers, she enjoyed horseback riding, gardening, classical music, staying in touch with family and friends in Germany, and local politics.

She is survived by her sister, Karin Weimann and partner Szabine Adamek-Weimann, of Berlin, Germany; her son, Alan Moghul, Ph.D. and partner Michael Barber of Palm Springs, CA; and first cousin once removed, Fee Zocher of Glueckstadt, Germany.