Obituaries
Recent Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Shippensburg, PA & Surrounding Areas
Merle Brewbaker
Sep 3, 2019
Merle R. Brewbaker, 97, of Shippensburg, passed away Tuesday, September 3, 2019, in the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born February 3, 1922, in Dry Run, PA. Merle was a son of the late Ezra and Olive Boggs Brewbaker. Merle was a member of the Prince Street United Brethren Church, Shippensburg. He retired from Shippensburg University and graduated from Fannett-Metal High...

Coreena Culbertson
Sep 1, 2019
Coreena Sue Culbertson, 51, of Orrstown, departed this life on the morning of Sunday, September 1, 2019, at her home. She was born on June 29, 1968, in Gettysburg, the daughter of Thomas L. Carbaugh, Sr., and Monta (Shaw) Beaver and husband Terry. Coreena married Steven C. Culbertson in the fall of 1985. Earlier in life, Coreena worked at the...
Lloyd Heller
Aug 31, 2019
Lloyd H. Heller, Jr., 75, of Shippensburg, passed away Saturday, August 31, 2019, from the result of an automobile accident. He was born January 29, 1944 in Shippensburg. Lloyd was a son of the late Lloyd H., Sr. and M. Roselene Robertson Heller. Lloyd was a member of the Memorial Lutheran Church, Shippensburg. Mr. Heller started out teaching history and...
Kayla Goodyear
Aug 30, 2019
Kayla Rae Goodyear, 33, of Newville, passed away Friday, August 30, 2019 at her home, surrounded by her loving family. Born Friday, August 27, 1986 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of Peggy Ann Varner Souders, of Shippensburg, and the late Dean Alan Bowers. Kayla worked as a dispatcher for Lift Inc., and was a former employee at Essintial Enterprise...
Nancy Crouse
Aug 30, 2019
Nancy Lee Crouse, 80, of Greencastle, passed away Friday, August 30, 2019 at Sterling Care of South Mountain, Boonsboro, MD. She was born January 22, 1939 in Lewistown, PA. Nancy was a daughter of the late John W., Sr. and Jessie Elizabeth Hudson Brisbin. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints and attended Antrim Brethren...
Martha Booz
Aug 28, 2019
Martha Ellen Booz, 94, of Shippensburg, passed away, Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at her home. She was born January 31, 1925 in Shippensburg, PA. Martha was a daughter of the late Alfred Strohm and Iva Rosenberry Strohm. Martha was married to Lee N. Booz, son of Norman Booz and Helen Cressler Booz, who preceded her in death as a victim...
Cindy Emondi
Aug 28, 2019
Cindy J. Emondi, 55, of Shippensburg, passed away on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Monday, July 13, 1964 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of Marilyn Jean Mackey Nenninger, and the late Clarence Albert “Sonny” Nenninger, Sr. Cindy was a 1983 graduate of the Shippensburg Area Senior High School. She was a member of the Shippensburg...
Lois Martin
Aug 28, 2019
Lois A. Martin, 95, of Shippensburg entered her heavenly home on Wednesday, August 28, 2019. Born Sunday, May 18, 1924 in Shippensburg, she was a daughter of the late John W. and Alice E. Frey Horst. She was a member of the Rowe Mennonite Church since a teenager, where she was head of the church sewing circle. Lois worked alongside...

Amos Reiff
Aug 26, 2019
Amos H. Reiff, 81, of Walnut Bottom, departed this life on the morning of Monday, August 26, 2019, at his home. He was born on February 9, 1938, in West Earl Twp., Lancaster Co., a son of the late Edwin M. and Barbara (Hoover) Reiff. After the passing of his first wife, Anna Mary, he re-married to Eva H. Martin...

Ruth Rebok
Aug 25, 2019
Ruth P. Rebok, 88, of Newburg, passed away Sunday, August 25, 2019 in the Shippensburg Health Care Center. She was born September 6, 1930 in Lurgan Township, Franklin County. Ruth was a daughter of the late Benjamin and Estella Wadel Keefer. She attended Upper Strasburg Church of God. During her life she worked at the former Marden Clothing Company and...
Crene Reisinger
Aug 22, 2019
Crene Ilene (Barmont) Reisinger, 89, departed this life on the afternoon of Thursday, August 22, 2019, at UPMC Pinnacle Harrisburg. She was born on March 11, 1930, in Salem, PA, a daughter of the late William and Olive (Piper) Barmont. Crene was a 1948 graduate of SASHS, served as the class president, and was also voted most popular of her...
John Dunlap
Aug 22, 2019
John C. Dunlap, 85, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the afternoon of Thursday, August 22, 2019, at the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born on June 16, 1934, in Newburg, the son of the late Paul L. and Ella Belle (Coleman) Dunlap. John married Marinda E. Culbertson on October 25, 1952, in Hagerstown, MD. John worked for Mack Truck, Hagerstown,...
Alice Kochenour
Aug 21, 2019
Alice E. (Nickelson) Kochenour, a resident of Brookview (Menno Haven), formerly of 310 Roxbury Road, Shippensburg, departed this life on the evening of Wednesday, August 21, 2019. She was born on February 16, 1934, in Washington County, Missouri, a daughter of the late Paul C. and Myrtle M. (Coleman) Nickelson and was a 1952 graduate of St. Francis deSales High...

Raymond Halter
Aug 18, 2019
Raymond J. Halter, Jr., 95, of Shippensburg, passed away Sunday, August 18, 2019 in Falling Spring Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Chambersburg. He was born September 15, 1923 in Newburg. Raymond was a son of the late Raymond J., Sr. and Carrie Helmerton Halter. Raymond worked at the Penn Pants Factory in Shippensburg for over 45 years. He was a member...
Teresa Burkholder
Aug 17, 2019
Teresa Jane Burkholder, 58, of Newburg, Passed away Saturday, August 17, 2019 at the home of her mother. Born Thursday, November 3, 1960 in Carlisle, she was a daughter of Helen May Rotz Burkholder, and the late Lee Albert Burkholder. Teresa was a 1978 graduate of the Shippensburg Area Senior High School, and attended Penn State Mont Alto. She was...
Rose Blattenberger
Aug 16, 2019
Rose E. Blattenberger, 89, of Shippensburg, passed away Friday, August 16, 2019 in the Shippensburg Health Care Center. She was born December 14, 1929 in Tazewell County, VA. Rose was a daughter of the late O. and Neva Altizer Ferrell. She was a member of the First Assembly of God Church, Shippensburg, and many years ago worked at the U-Wanna-Wash...
Nancy Karcher
Aug 16, 2019
Nancy W. G. Karcher, 79, of Fayetteville, passed away on Friday, August 16, 2019 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Wednesday, January 17, 1940 in Long Beach, CA, she was a daughter of the late Richard E.H. and Evelyn Wallace Beattie Gingras. Nancy was a graduate of the Annapolis Area Senior High School, and a graduate of Centenary College in Hackettstown,...
Dorothy Cressler
Aug 15, 2019
Dorothy J. Cressler, 98, of Shippensburg, passed away Thursday, August 15, 2019 in Green Ridge Village, Newville. She was born January 28, 1921 in Shippensburg, PA. Dorothy was a daughter of the late Dewey and Myra Swanger Cressler. She was a member of Memorial Lutheran Church, Shippensburg. Dorothy was a graduate of the Shippensburg State Teachers College and earned a...
Gerda Gleim
Aug 12, 2019
Gerda A. (Pinske) Gleim, 95, of Shippensburg, passed away Monday, August 12, 2019, at Green Ridge Village, Newville. Born December 11, 1923, in Werben-am-Medusee, Germany, she was a daughter of the late Willi and Martha (nee Zitske) Pinske. Gerda married her husband, Alfred Gleim, in 1957 and was married 50 years before his passing in 2007. Although she never had...
Rev. John Loewen
Aug 11, 2019
Rev. John C. Loewen, 93, a resident of Green Ridge Village, Newville, passed away Sunday, August 11, 2019 surrounded by his sons. He was born November 1, 1925 in Mt. Joy, PA. John was a son of the late John and Anna (Liebshutz) Loewen. John was the Pastor at Leesburg and Mt. Tabor United Methodist Church Charges and three other...