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Natalie Keefer
Jan 11, 2017
Natalie E. Keefer, 87, a resident of the Shippensburg Health Care Center, departed this life on the morning of Wednesday, January 11, 2017. She was born on October 3, 1929, in Thompson, Fulton Co., a daughter of the late William and Pearl Johnson Keefer. Natalie was a homemaker throughout her life and provided child care in her home. Her greatest...
Betty Gardner
Jan 10, 2017
Betty Ann Gabler Gardner of Newburg, passed from this life on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 in the Chambersburg Hospital at the age of 86. Born January 29, 1930 in McKinney, Cumberland County. Betty was a daughter of the late S. Errol and E. Grace Coleman Gabler. She also was preceded in death by her loving husband Charles Bryce Gardner who...
Florence Diehl
Jan 9, 2017
Florence V. Diehl, 86, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Monday, January 9, 2017, at the Orrstown Personal Care Home. She was born on March 2, 1930, in Huntingdon, a daughter of the late Harvey B. and Florence Naugle Freysinger and married Harvey A. Diehl on December 7, 1950, in Hagerstown, MD. Florence worked at Shippensburg University,...
Virginia Crum
Jan 7, 2017
Virginia Lee “Ginny” Crum, 62, of Shippensburg, passed away Saturday, January 7, 2017 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Saturday, February 6, 1954 in Galway, NY, she was a daughter of the late Donald and Ida M. Fox Frederick. Ginny was a WOTM Ladies Auxiliary Board Member of the Shippensburg Moose and a member of the Minnequa Social Club, Shippensburg. She...
Letha Tomlin
Jan 7, 2017
Letha R. Tomlin, 101, of Orrstown, passed away Saturday, January 7, 2017 in the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born April 4, 1915 in Maston, Sullivan County, PA. Letha was a daughter of the late Jasper and Almyra Walker Robbins. She also was preceded in death by her first husband, R. Lee Crawley, her second husband, Keith Tomlin, and four brothers...
Brian Hancock
Jan 5, 2017
Brian C. Hancock, 56, of Shippensburg, passed away Thursday, January 5, 2017 at home surrounded by his loving family. He was born May 28, 1960 in Chambersburg. Brian was a son of Roger C. and Doris J. Henderson Hancock of Shippensburg. Brian was currently employed by Shippensburg University and prior to working there he was employed for 27 years at...
Brenda Smith
Jan 2, 2017
Brenda Marie Smith, 61, of Shippensburg, passed away Monday, January 2, 2017 at her home. She was born January 14, 1955 in Gettysburg, PA. Brenda was a daughter of Naomi H. Koontz Bair,originally of Hanover, and the late Dale G. Bair. She retired as an LPN from the Chambersburg Hospital. Brenda was a very active member of the Newburg United...
James Yeingst
Jan 2, 2017
James H. Yeingst, Jr., 72, of Shippensburg, passed away Monday, January 2, 2017 at the Carlisle Regional Medical Center. Born Wednesday, November 22, 1944 in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, he was a son of the late James H. Yeingst, Sr. and Ethylene Myers Short. James was a graduate of Cumberland Valley High School. He was an entrepreneur and business owner of...
Ralph Haines
Jan 1, 2017
Ralph Gilbert Haines, 90, a resident of Green Ridge Village, Newville, formerly of Shippensburg, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Sunday, January 1, 2017. Born on July 30, 1926, in Newport, he was a son of the late Lewis Samuel and Dollie Irene Murphy Haines. Ralph was a 1945 graduate of Newport Senior High School. He served...
Harold Mowers
Dec 31, 2016
Harold E. Mowers, 97, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the afternoon of Saturday, December 31, 2016, at his home. Born on March 9, 1919, in Newville, he was a son of the late James E. and Alice Shatzer Mowers. Harold was a U.S. Army Veteran of WW II, inducted on July 2, 1942 and honorably discharged on November 3,...
Catherine Meyer
Dec 27, 2016
Catherine A. Meyer, 71, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 27, 2016. She was born on January 14, 1945, in County Kerry, Ireland, the daughter of the late Edward and Catherine V. Hanlon McCarthy and married James J. Meyer on September 4, 1965, in the Bronx, NY. Catherine was a homemaker, a loving mother to...
Wanida Johnson
Dec 24, 2016
Wanida J. Johnson, 84, of Orrstown, passed away, Saturday, December 24, 2016 in the Shippensburg Health Care Center. She was born August 26, 1932 in Shape Gap, PA. Wanida was a daughter of the late Jay and Margaret Tice Piper. Her husband, Wayne H. Johnson died August 4, 2008 and one brother, Gary Piper is also deceased. She was a...
Shirley Willhide
Dec 23, 2016
Shirley J. Willhide, 67, of Kissimmee, Fl., died Friday, December 23, 2016 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born December 28, 1948 in Enola, Cumberland County, she was a daughter of the late John and Jessee Dora Hafer Bubb, Sr. Shirley was of the Methodist Faith and a Soldier of the Salvation Army. She was the owner and operator alongside her husband...
Ammon Weaver
Dec 21, 2016
Ammon H. Weaver, 66, of Shippensburg, died Wednesday, December 21, 2016 in his home. He was born July 14, 1950 in Ephrata, Lancaster County. Ammon was a son of Annie Hoover Weaver of Orrstown, and the late John D. Weaver. One brother, Raymond Weaver and grandson, Eldon Weaver are also deceased. Ammon was a retired farmer. He was a member...
Patrick Mccleaf
Dec 19, 2016
Patrick H. McCleaf passed away on December 19, 2016, at the age of 69. He was born on April 11, 1947, to the late Samuel S. and Olive E. Winters McCleaf. He was a 1965 graduate of the Shippensburg High School. He was a United States Navy Veteran from 1965 to 1969. He was in the Seabees and served in...
Charles Deimler
Dec 16, 2016
Charles Keith Deimler, 25, of Newburg, PA., went to be with his Lord on Friday, December 16, 2016. He was a generous and loving young man who was firm in his faith and believed that we have a limited amount of time, we need to start living right. Born May 24, 1991 in Camp Hill, he was a son of...
Jerome Weaver
Dec 16, 2016
Jerome D. Weaver, 58, of Shippensburg, passed away Friday, December 16, 2016. He was born April 2, 1958 in Phoenixville, PA. Jerome was a son of the late Elmer H. and Dorothy Good Weaver. He attended Doubling Gap Church of God, Newville. Jerome worked for New Penn Motor Express, Camp Hill. He was a 1976 graduate of the Shippensburg Area...
Jordan Albright
Dec 15, 2016
Jordan L. Albright, one day old, of Waynesboro, departed this life on the evening of Thursday, December 15, 2016, at the M.S. Hershey Medical Center. She is survived by her mother and father, Aleisa J. Albright and Trever R. Yeager of Waynesboro; brother and sister, John and Jenna; maternal grandmother, Debbie Ireland of Waynesboro; maternal grandfather, John (Janice ) Evans...
Margaret "Margie" Siegfried
Dec 15, 2016
Margaret “Margie” D. Siegfried, 86, a resident of the Shippensburg Health Care Center, departed this life on the morning of Thursday, December 15, 2016. She was born on December 21, 1929, in Dalmatia, a daughter of the late Irvin and Mary Engle. Margie was a homemaker throughout her life. She was very easy going person and lived a very simple...
Ruth Baker
Dec 13, 2016
Ruth A. Baker, 86, of Shippensburg, passed away Tuesday, December 13, 2016 in the Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was born November 7, 1930 in Shippensburg. Ruth was a daughter of the late Harper John and Ruth Molly Perry Adams. Her husband, Walter C. Baker passed away November 2, 2016 and one brother, Leroy Adams is also deceased....
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