Rodney Kauffman

Rodney W. Kauffman, aged 95 years, passed away peacefully early Tuesday morning, August 16th, at Elmcroft Assisted Living, 129 Walnut Bottom Road, Shippensburg, PA. He was born June 17, 1921, in Cumberland County, near Cleversburg, PA. Rodney’s parents were the late George and Flo Helm Burns.

As a child Rodney attended the one room school in Cleversburg, grades one through eight. Here he acquired his lifelong love of reading. After leaving school he continued working on the family farm…plowing the fields with a team of horses, mowing and pitching hay, and tending the animals.

Rodney was a veteran of WWII, having been called into service in July 1942. He served as a military policeman in the U.S. Army Air Forces in England, Belgium and Germany. He was discharged in December 1945.

Upon returning to civilian life, Rodney began his lifelong career as a trackman with the Reading Railroad Company. He retired with over thirty years of service.

During his retirement years, Rodney enjoyed hiking daily with friends, playing card games with friends and taking day trips to many different places. He also enjoyed cooking for his family and mowing acres of grass.

Rodney’s real love was the outdoors and hunting. During his lifetime he took many hunting trips to Maine and Canada, as well as multiple trips to counties in western Pennsylvania. He hunted locally until his late eighties.

He was a lifetime member of the Oscar M. Hykes Post #223 of the American Legion and the Durff-Kuhn V.F.W. Post #6168 in Shippensburg, as well as the Hub City Social Club. For many years he was a member of the Walnut Bottom Rod and Gun Club.

Rodney is survived by his sister Joan Burns Coy and her husband Edgar J. Coy, I, of Shippensburg, as well as his nephew Edgar J. Coy, II, and his niece Lorraine Coy Ferrell and her husband Heath, and two grandnieces Jacqueline and Lauren Ferrell, all of Shippensburg. He is also survived by numerous cousins and many friends.

Services conducted by Pastor Barbara A. Servello, will be held at the Fogelsanger-Bricker Funeral Home at 112 West King Street, Shippensburg, PA at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 20th. A viewing will be held one hour prior to the service. Interment will be at the Cleversburg United Methodist Church Cemetery, where a military graveside service will be conducted.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Wounded Warrior Project, P.O. Box 758517, Topeka, Kansas 66675.

On-line condolences may be expressed at www.fogelsanger-brickerfuneralhome.com.