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Lester Daihl
Feb 8, 2012
Lester L. “Pooch” Daihl, 74, of 12118 Mountain Road, Orrstown, died Wednesday, February 8, 2012 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Sunday, September 26, 1937 in Roxbury, Franklin County, he was a son of the late Paul and Mary Swanger Daihl. Lester retired from McClure Co., Harrisburg, where he was a member of the Local 520 Plumbers and Pipefitters Union. He...
Donald Devor
Feb 3, 2012
Donald C. Devor, Sr., 75, a resident of the Shippensburg Health Care Center, died on the evening of Friday, February 3, 2012, at the Health Care Center. He was born on April 5, 1936, in Shippensburg, a son of the late Miles and Katherine Strayer Devor. Years ago, Donald was employed as a Painter for M. Gordon & Sons, Harrisburg,...
Cardinal Gontz
Feb 1, 2012
Cardinal L. Gontz, 85, of Shippensburg, died on the evening of Wednesday, February 1, 2012, at the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born on September 10, 1926, in Scotland, PA, a son of the late Harper and Grace Skinner Gontz. Cardinal was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, enlisting on three separate occasions, and was honorably discharged for the...
Janet Wingert
Jan 29, 2012
Janet R. Wingert, 72, of Olde Scotland Road, Shippensburg and formerly of Baltimore Road, Shippensburg, died Sunday, January 29, 2012 in the Shippensburg Health Care Center. Born June 13, 1939 in Dry Run, she was a daughter of the late Homer and Violet Rowles Rosenberry Janet was a member of the First Church of God, Shippensburg and its WCSC Group,...
Raymond Mowery
Jan 28, 2012
Raymond A. “Sonny” Mowery Jr., 80 a resident at the Shippensburg Health Care Center and formerly of Orrstown Road, Shippensburg, died Saturday, January 28, 2012 at the home. Born Wednesday, June 3, 1931 in Shippensburg, he was a son of the late Raymond A. Sr. and Veryl R. McBeth Mowery. Sonny was a member of the Church of God of...
Janet Lindsey
Jan 28, 2012
Janet L. Lindsey, 70, of Shippensburg, died peacefully Saturday, January 28, 2012 in her home surrounded by her family. Born August 19, 1941 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Cecil and Hazel Johnson Smith. She was a member of the Prince Street United Brethren Church and attended the First Church of God both in Shippensburg. Janet owned...
Ernest Gutshall
Jan 27, 2012
Ernest F. Gutshall, 91, a resident of Green Ridge Village, Newville formerly of Shippensburg, died Friday, January 27, 2012 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born August 24, 1920 in Shippensburg, he was a son of the late Charles and Myrtle Ulrich Gutshall. He was a member of Messiah United Methodist Church in Shippensburg and retired from Shippensburg University in 1982. Mr....
Ferne Madden
Jan 24, 2012
Ferne G. Madden, 92, a resident of The Village of Laurel Run, formerly of Greene Knolls, Fayetteville, died Tuesday, January 24, 2012 in the home. Born November 18, 1919 in Waterfall, Fulton County, she was a daughter of the late Blaine and Nora Newman Bergstresser. She owned and operated the former Ferne’s Beauty Salon in Shippensburg for many years. In...
Alice Gipe
Jan 23, 2012
Alice M. Gipe, 90, a resident at the Shippensburg Health Care Center and formerly of Roxbury, died Monday, January 23, 2012 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Wednesday, August 3, 1921 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late David N. and Vera Elizabeth Bittinger Davis. Alice was a member of the Living Faith Chapel, Shippensburg. Surving are her husband...
Saundra Shives
Jan 23, 2012
Saundra L. Shives, 63, of Shippensburg, died Monday, January 23, 2012 in the emergency room at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born April 1, 1948 in McConnellsburg, Fulton County, she was a daughter of the late Foster Jack, Sr. and Esther Walker Weller. Saundra was a member of the Mongul United Brethren Church and TOPS of Shippensburg. She was currently working for...
Samuel Neidigh
Jan 23, 2012
Samuel E. Neidigh Sr. 70 of Newville, died Monday, January 23, 2012 at his home surrounded by his loving family and friends after a brief battle with cancer. Born Friday, October 10, 1941 in McCrea, PA, he was a son of the late Russell and Mary Miller Neidigh. Samuel was of the Protestant Faith. He retired in 2003 from Carlisle...
Violet Holtry
Jan 22, 2012
Violet M. Holtry, 86, a resident of the Shippensburg Health Care Center, died Sunday, January 22, 2012 in the home. Born October 14, 1925 in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, she was a daughter of the late Herman Leroy, Sr. and Mabel Grace Fitzgerald Holtry. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by one brother, Herman Leroy Holtry, Jr.,...
John Thomas
Jan 21, 2012
John H. “J.T” Thomas, 81, a resident of the Shippensburg Health Care Center, died on the morning of January 21, 2012, at the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born on February 1, 1930, in Shippensburg, a son of the late Jerry C. and Violet R. Fitzgerald Thomas. John served in the U.S. Navy. Upon his discharge, John bought the former Varsity...
Carl Rosenberry
Jan 21, 2012
Carl Leroy Rosenberry, 66, formerly of Walnut Bottom, died on the evening of January 21, 2012, in Manor Care, Chambersburg. He was born on April 6, 1945, in Roxbury, a son of the late Albert Martin & Mabel Stoner Rosenberry. Carl was a U.S. Army veteran. Carl was retired from the Letterkenny Army Depot, where he worked as a welder...
Frances Zullinger
Jan 20, 2012
Frances M. “Dolly” Zullinger, 91, of Orrstown, died Friday, January 20, 2012 in her home. Born February 24, 1920 in Orrstown, Franklin County, she was a daughter of the late Charles B. and Daisy T. Parson Cisney. Frances was a member of the Orrstown United Brethren Church. In addition to her parents she was a preceded in death by her...
Mary Carr
Jan 20, 2012
Mary Ann Carr 1940 ~ 2012 Mary Ann Carr, 71, of Shippensburg, PA, formerly of Harrisonburg, VA, died on Friday, January 20, 2012, at the Carlisle Hospital. She was born on April 4, 1940, in Harrisonburg, VA, the daughter of the late Jay Allen and Myrna Dorman. On July 8, 1957, Mary Ann married Mr. Carter H. Carr, Sr. in...
Lucile Hamilton
Jan 19, 2012
Lucile A. Hamilton, 54, of Shippensburg, died Thursday, January 19, 2012 in the M.S. Hershey Medical Center. Born April 14, 1957 in Washington D.C. she was a daughter of the late John Ofenstein, Sr. and Joanne M. Florence Weary. Years ago Lucile was the Circulation Manager for the News Chronicle in Shippensburg. She took a lot of the photography for...
Jean Perkins
Jan 18, 2012
Jean S. Perkins, 87, a resident of the Shippensburg Health Care Center, died on the morning of Wednesday, January 18, 2012, at the Health Care Center. She was born on June 28, 1924, in Rochester, PA, the daughter of the late Carl E. and Florence O. Dunbar Smith. A graduate of Rochester High School, Jean then met and married Dr....
Mary Kirby
Jan 17, 2012
Mary S. Kirby, 82, of Shippensburg, died Tuesday, January 17, 2012 in Green Ridge Village, Newville. Born October 29, 1929 in Shippensburg, she was a daughter of the late John and Anna Hancock Doyle. Mary was a member of the Mainsville United Brethren Church. She was co-owner of Ralph Kirby Plumbing and Heating and years ago she was employed by...
Judith Jenkins
Jan 17, 2012
Judith A. Jenkins, 70 of Shippensburg, died on the morning of Tuesday, January 17, 2012, at her home, surrounded by her family. She was born on September 25, 1941, in Newville, the daughter of Laura M. Hamilton Jumper and the late Paul H. Beidel. A 1960 graduate of Big Spring High School, Judith married Mr. Raymond S. Jenkins, Jr. on...
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