Dolores “Del” M. DeLaurentis, 89, died May 15, 2020, of COVID-19. Born in Bethlehem, she was a daughter of Domenic and Elizabeth (Arnhoffer) DeLaurentis. She was the wife of the late Joseph C. Pongracz, Esquire.

She graduated from Holy Ghost School, Central Catholic High School and the Charles Morris Price School of Journalism. She studied at Moravian College.

She was a cub reporter at the Morning Call in 1948. She directed her own public relations and marketing firm and was an adjunct professor of marketing at Lehigh University.

She is survived by four children, Ann Pongracz (Mark Cole) of Las Vegas, Nev.; Jamie Sarna (Rudolph) of Penobscot, Maine; Wendy Pongracz (John Ewing) and Michael Pongracz, all of Philadelphia; four grandchildren, Daniel and David Yoken and Michael and Eliza Ewing; and two sisters, Joan DeLaurentis (the late Joseph Mahoney) and Helen DeLaurentis.

She was predeceased by a friend and companion, Cecil Blocker.

Contributions may be made to the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Lehigh Valley, 424 Center St., Bethlehem, PA.

Arrangements were made by Cantelmi Long Funeral Home Inc., Bethlehem.