Arthur E Stakes

Anyone who knew Art Stakes will tell you that he was a gentle man; a quiet guy. He never made fanfare on entrance anywhere he went, but his presence will be missed immeasurably.

Born in Philly to Art and Doris Stakes in 1942, he grew up in Bristol and later, Levittown.

In 1976 he married Barbara Palinkas and they moved to Bensalem, where they raised two really great sons: Arthur Andrew and Jesse Colin.

He took them canoeing, fishing, hiking, and they spent a week at one of the Pennsylvania State Park cabins every summer.

In his younger years, he and Barb hiked and canoed with groups from Churchville Nature Center. They walked Tyler State Park and Playwicki Farm. They took countless vacation trips to Florida, Colorado, Mexico, Canada. They loved visiting and vacationing with best friends, Judy and Bill in Missouri and attending reunions with the Palinkas family in California and upstate New York.

Family get-togethers, dinners-out, and celebrations with the Rothstein, Crow and Murphy families in Trenton, Levittown, and Yardley was very important to Art..

To say that he loved the Eagles would be the understatement of his lifetime.

Watching an Eagle’s game was probably the only thing that could make him jump up from his seat and scare everyone because, unless you watched a game with him before, never knew could yell that loud!

When they won the Super Bowl last year, it was really something to make him smile. But, sadly, it was also the first time anyone witnessed him not seem to care much, due to his illness.

Art is in a beautiful place with our son and brother, Arthur, who passed away from an aggressive cancer in October, 2023.

He is survived by his wife, Barbara, son, Jesse, cousins, Loretta Crow of Trenton, NJ and Keith Rothstein and wife, Mary of Yardley, PA, extended nieces and nephews and by brother-in-law, Raymond Palinkas, Liverpool, NY and Ray’s sons, Mark and Skip, also from the Syracuse area, and their extended families.

A memorial gathering for family and friends will be held on Wednesday, July 30, 2025, from 10:00 AM until 12:00 PM at the James J Dougherty Funeral Home, 2200 Trenton Road, Levittown, PA.

He was loved. He will be missed.