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Cora Warren
May 6, 2011
Cora E. Warren, 76, formerly of Shippensburg, died Friday, May 6, 2011 in the Home Care of Rhonda Rogers in Chambersburg. Born September 14, 1934 in Southampton Township, Cumberland County, she was a daughter of the late Elmer and Cora Kunkleman Lynch. She was a member of the Grace United Church of Christ in Shippensburg and retired from the Beistle...
Dorothy Diehl
May 4, 2011
Dorothy Grace Diehl, 85, of Pleasant Hall, died Wednesday, May 4, 2011 in Manorcare, Chambersburg. Born October 12, 1925 in Pleasant Hall, she was a daughter of the late Irvin S. and Grace E. Keefer Gayman. She recently retired as the owner and operator of Keltner’s Camping Supplies and was a teller for over 20 years at the Orrstown Bank...
Bertha Failor
May 3, 2011
Bertha K. Failor, 94, of Shippensburg, died Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at home. Born July 4, 1916 in Southampton Twp., Cumberland County, she was a daughter of the late Arthur W. and Martha D. Middaugh Johnson. She retired from U-Wanna-Wash Frock Company in Shippensburg. Bertha is survived by one son, Guy H. Failor, Jr. of Shippensburg, one granddaughter, Lynn Anne...
Betty Snoke
May 3, 2011
Betty Jane Snoke, 84, gently left this life on Tuesday, May 3, 2011, at the Carlisle Regional Medical Center, following a brief illness. Born on August 4, 1926, in Shippensburg, a daughter of the late Walter Russell and Nellie (Kelly) Russell Jones. Betty spent her entire life in the Shippensburg area. She was fully committed to her family, spending much...
George Mccann
May 1, 2011
George A. McCann, 91, a resident at Elm Croft, Shippensburg, and formerly of Mainsville Road, Shippensburg, died Sunday, May 1, 2011 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born February 24, 1920 in Garfield, NJ, he was a son of the late Albert Edward and Lenna S. Squires McCann. George was a member of the Shippensburg Presbyterian Church. He was a 1937 graduate...
Miriam Mitten
Apr 29, 2011
Miriam G. Mitten 1926 ~ 2011 Miriam G. Mitten, 84, of Walnut Bottom, died on Friday, April 29, 2011, at her home. Born on August 15, 1926, in Walnut Bottom, a daughter of the late Clair and Fannie Seavers Goodhart. She was a 1944 graduate of Shippensburg Area High School. Miriam married Mr. Paul R. Mitten on September 15, 1946,...
Janet Bricker
Apr 29, 2011
Janet L. Bricker, 79, of 1851 Clinton Avenue, Chambersburg, died Friday, April 29, 2011 in Menno Haven, where she had been a resident for two weeks. Born May 24, 1931 in Fayetteville, she was a daughter of the late H. Huber and Laurene Harvie Bowers. During her life Janet worked as a receptionist in the office of Dr. Robert Wingerd...
Albert Cook
Apr 28, 2011
Albert J. Cook 1917 ~ 2011 Albert J. Cook, 93, a resident of the Falling Spring Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, formerly of Chambersburg, died on April 28, 2011. Born on October 13, 1917, in Shippensburg, a son of the late Daniel and Minnie Jones Cook. Albert attended the Shippensburg Area High School and was a U.S. Army veteran of WW...
Harold Heisey
Apr 26, 2011
Harold E. Heisey, 80, of Chambersburg, died Tuesday, April 26, 2011 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born April 13, 1931 in Lancaster, PA, he was a son of the late Raymond and Anna Mae Buller Heisey. Harold was a member of the Chambersburg Bible Church and retired from the Letterkenny Army Depot in 1987. He was a United States Air Force...
Ruth Myers
Apr 24, 2011
Ruth N. Myers 1914 ~ 2011 Ruth N. Myers, 97, of Shippensburg, died on Sunday, April 24, 2011. Born on January 12, 1914, in Orrstown, a daughter of the late Charles Bayard and Daisy Tressa Parson Cisney. A 1932 graduate of the Shippensburg Area High School, she married her husband Mr. William Bruce Myers in 1936. Ruth and her husband...
Earl Russell
Apr 23, 2011
Earl R. Russell, 82 of Shippensburg, died Saturday, April 23, 2011 in his home. Born March 5, 1929 in Shippensburg, he was a son of the late George W. and Florence E. Durff Russell. He retired from SKF Industries in Shippensburg and for many years drove bus for the McBeth Bus Company in Walnut Bottom. Earl attended the Christian Missionary...
June Martin
Apr 22, 2011
June Martin, 84, of Means Hollow Road, Shippensburg, died Friday, April 22, 2011 in the Falling Spring Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Chambersburg, where she resided. Born May 26, 1926 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Bruce and Fredyth Swartz Hockersmith. June was a member of the Shippensburg First Church of God and their Kings, Sons, and Daughters...
Frances Highlands
Apr 21, 2011
Frances K. Highlands, 71, of Shippensburg, died Thursday, April 21, 2011 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born March 3, 1940 in Gettysburg, she was a daughter of the late Andrew and Catherine Faulkner Shearer. Years ago she was employed at Forget-Me-Not Florists in Shippensburg and the Stanley Company in Chambersburg. Frances was a member of the Open Door Church in Chambersburg....
Mary Howland
Apr 21, 2011
Kay Michael Howland 92 Mary Kathryn Michael Howland of Shippensburg, PA, passed away, peacefully, Thursday, April 21, 2011, in Manor Care, Chambersburg PA, where she called home since January 2010. Born in Shippensburg PA, October 31, 1918, Kay was a daughter of the late Daniel Ernest and Mary Jane Shaeffer Michael. She graduated from Shippensburg High School in 1937, and...
Robert Miller
Apr 17, 2011
Robert Ryder Miller Sr., 85, died on April 17, 2011 in St. George, UT. Born November 11, 1925 in Chambersburg, PA, he was a son of the late John and Ruth Miller. He married his college sweetheart Sarah (Sally) Seitz of Shippensburg, PA. He served in the Glider Infantry Division of the Army during World War II. After the war,...
Charity Lavoie
Apr 15, 2011
Charity A. Lavoie, 67, of Newburg, passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family and friends Friday, April 15, 2011 in her home. Born May 28, 1943 in Richford, VT, she was a daughter of the late Scott and Della Lucas Wright. Charity was a member of Our Lady of the Visitation Catholic Church in Shippensburg and was a past...
Wilbur Baker
Apr 14, 2011
Wilbur K. Baker 1923 ~ 2011 Wilbur K. “Bake” Baker, 87, a resident of Menno Haven, formerly of Shippensburg, died on April 14, 2011. Born on November 17, 1923, in Sipesville, PA, the son of the late James W. and Anna Kline Baker. Wilbur was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, inducted on March 25, 1943 and honorably...
Thomas Neil
Apr 12, 2011
Thomas S. Neil of Northgate at Menno Haven, Chambersburg, PA passed away April 12 at Chambersburg Hospital. Tom was born in Belle Vernon PA on January 17, 1928, son of the late Thomas S. and Dorothy M. Hurst Neil. A native of Belle Vernon, PA, Neil graduated from Belle Vernon High School and attended the University of Pittsburgh. Immediately after...
Robert Leidig
Apr 10, 2011
Robert E. Leidig, Sr., 83, of Newburg, died Sunday, April 10, 2011 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born February 26, 1928 in Greencastle, he was a son of the late Edgar J. and Catherine Mae Hykes Leidig. He was a retired supervisor, working for over 46 years at Hoffman Mills in Shippensburg. Robert was a member of the Durff-Kuhn VFW Post...
Ruth Stouffer
Apr 10, 2011
Ruth V. Stouffer 1925 ~ 2011 Ruth V. Stouffer, 86, a resident of Green Ridge Village, Newville, died on Sunday, April 10, 2011. Born on February 13, 1925, in West Pennsboro Twp., a daughter of the late Floyd T. and Bessie Foltz Gettle. On June 6, 1947, Ruth married Mr. John W. “Jack” Stouffer at the Newville First Church of...
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