Gumpper

Leah Gumpper, 35, of Mount Bethel, Northampton County, died Thursday at her home from complications of multiple sclerosis.

She was born June 18, 1971, in Knoxville, Tenn. She attended the Growing Concern Montessori School in Tannersville, Monroe County, and graduated as an honors student from Bangor High School, Northampton County, in 1989. She attended the Moravian College and the University of Georgia before graduating summa cum laude from East Stroudsburg University in 2000.

She was a poet and a traveler. During her too short life, she lived in Knoxville, Tenn., Athens, Ga., Austin, Texas, and New Orleans, La. She spent a year traveling extensively throughout the United States and Canada and toured Spain. She loved being on the road.

She is survived by her parents, David and Barbara Newcombe Gumpper, of Mount Bethel; a brother, Paul Gumpper and his wife, Molly Belmont, of Albany, N.Y.; her grandfather, Frank Sinkevich, of Lyndora; and numerous uncles, aunts and cousins.

<B>GUMPPER</B> — A memorial service for Leah Gumpper, who died Thursday, June 7, 2007, will be held at 3 p.m. June 24 at the Growing Concern Montessori School, Railroad Drive, off Route 715 South, in Tannersville.In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Leah Gumpper Memorial Poetry Scholarship at East Stroudsburg University.Arrangements are being handled by the <B>William H. Clark Funeral Home</B>, Stroudsburg.Information also is available at www.wmhclarkfuneralhome.com.