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Hazel Carbaugh
Feb 7, 2019
Hazel M. Carbaugh, 83, of Upper Strasburg, passed away Thursday, February 7, 2019. She was born April 3, 1935 in Bear Valley, Franklin County. Hazel was a daughter of the late Allan and Rosella Seiler Foore. She was a member of the Newburg First Church of God. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband,...
Wayne Hershey
Feb 7, 2019
Wayne E. Hershey, Sr., 79, lifelong resident of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Thursday, February 7, 2019, at his home surrounded by his family. He was born on March 17, 1939, in Shippensburg, a son of the late John M. and Elva R. Dyarman Hershey, Sr., and was a 1957 graduate of Shippensburg High School. He married...
Annette Harrison
Feb 6, 2019
Annette M. Harrison, 80, a resident of the Shippensburg Health Care Center, passed away Wednesday, February 6, 2019 in the home. She was born November 23, 1937 in West Chester, PA. Annette was a daughter of the late Gerald P. and Sarah M. Thompson Hess. Annette was a Registered Nurse and the owner and operator of Nurses Referral Services in...
Edwin Smith
Feb 6, 2019
Edwin Gary “Smitty” Smith, 72, of Shippensburg, passed away Wednesday, February 6, 2019 in the Carlisle Regional Medical Center. He was born April 14, 1946 in Altoona, PA. Smitty was a son of the late William and Laura M. Smith Clark. He retired from the Pennsylvania State Police where he obtained the rank of Lieutenant. Smitty served at various barracks...
Loren Divelbliss
Feb 5, 2019
Loren E. “Lonnie” Divelbliss, 59, of Mercersburg, departed this life on the afternoon of February 5, 2019, at the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born on August 23, 1959, in Paw Paw, WV, a son of the late William L. and Effie Mae Weller Divelbliss. Lonnie married Mabel Virginia Schriever on September 3, 1986, in Hagerstown, MD. Lonnie worked as a...
Elizabeth Singer
Feb 4, 2019
Elizabeth L. “Betty” Singer, 86, a resident of the Orrstown Personal Care Home formerly of Newville, passed away Monday, February 4, 2019 in the home. She was born July 1, 1932 in Oakville, PA. Betty was a daughter of the late Isaac E. and Emma J. Sites Staver. She was a member of the Oakville United Methodist Church, Shippensburg and...
Patricia Virgens
Feb 3, 2019
Patricia Belle Marshall Virgens, 81, passed away Sunday, February 3, 2019 at Shippensburg Health Care Center in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. Patricia was born March 20, 1937 in Leonardtown, Maryland to Isabel Florence Graves Marshall and Ira Richard Marshall, Sr. of Loveville, Maryland. Patricia moved with her family to Washington, D.C. as a young child and attended school in the Washington, D.C....
Janet Fields
Jan 26, 2019
Janet L. (Singer) Fields, 73, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Saturday, January 26, 2019, at UPMC Pinnacle Carlisle. She was born on October 23, 1945, in Newville, a daughter of the late Clarence and Mary Martin Singer and was a 1963 graduate of Shippensburg High School. Janet married Robert Fields, Sr. on December 12, 1992 at...
Elva Goodhart
Jan 23, 2019
Elva Jane Goodhart, 80 of Shippensburg, passed away Wednesday, January 23, 2019. She was born Friday, June 10, 1938 in Lewistown, PA. Elva Jane was a daughter of the late harry Theodore and Ruth Brock Freed. Elva Jane was a member of the Mainsville Church. She was a past Shippensburg Borough Tax Collector. Elva Jane was a member of the...
Allen Adams
Jan 23, 2019
Allen Joseph Adams, 31, of Shippensburg, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at his home surrounded by his loving family. Born Sunday, January 3, 1988 in Honduras, he was a son of Mary Gayle Wynkoop Adams of Shippensburg. Allen will be sadly missed by his mother and very large at home family. Funeral services and burial will be...
William Porter
Jan 22, 2019
William C. Porter, 73, of Fort Loudon, passed away Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at home. He was born Monday, August 7, 1945 in Philipsburg, PA. William was a son of the late Robert L. and Pearl Petrosky Porter. William was a United States Army Veteran during the Vietnam War. He was a member of the Durff-Kuhn VFW Post #6168, Shippensburg,...
Marjorie Johnson
Jan 21, 2019
Marjorie A. “Sis” Johnson, 93 of Orrstown, passed away Monday, January 21, 2019 in the Chambersburg Hospital surrounded by her loving family. She was born February 12, 1925 in Odell, Illinois. Marjorie was a daughter of the late Wilbur and Edna Smith Bolen. Marjorie is survived by five children, Shirley L. (Robert) Felmlee, Donald A. (Sharon) Johnson, Joanne (Daniel) Timmons,...
David Stump
Jan 21, 2019
David Lee Stump, 79, of Newburg, passed away on the morning of Monday, January 21, 2019 at his home, surrounded by his loving family. Born Monday, December 25, 1939 in Dillsburg, he was a son of the late Delma L. and Barbara Clepper Stump. He was a United States Army Veteran serving during the Vietnam War. He was a lifelong...
Dorothy Jacobs
Jan 19, 2019
Dorothy (Righter) Woomer Jacobs, of York, died on Saturday, January 19, 2019, at 10:52 p.m., in Belleview, PA. Born on December 18, 1923, in Burnham, PA, she was the daughter of the late Fred Bruce and Bernice (Moyer) Righter. Her first husband, Dr. Kendall K. Woomer, died May 18, 1963, and her second husband, Dr. Harry G. Jacobs, died September...
Harry Osbaugh
Jan 17, 2019
Harry Osbaugh, Jr., 95, of Newburg, passed away on Thursday, January 17, 2019 at the Claremont Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Carlisle, PA. Born Saturday, September 15, 1923 in Williamson, Franklin County. He was a son of the late Harry C. and Catherine Commerer Osbaugh, Sr. Harry was a 1941 graduate of the St. Thomas High School. He was a member...
Larry Mitchell
Jan 15, 2019
Larry E. Mitchell, 70, of Shippensburg, passed away Tuesday, January 15, 2019 in the Chambersburg Hospital, with his loving family by his side. He was born Friday, April 9, 1948 in Newburg, PA. Larry was a son of the late Lawrence F. and Esther E. Rolar Mitchell. Larry retired in 2008 from the Letterkenny Army Depot, Chambersburg. He was a...
Janell Love
Jan 12, 2019
Janell K. Love, 92, of Shippensburg, passed away Saturday, January 12, 2019 at Green Ridge Village, Newville. She was born June 27, 1926 in Lemasters, PA. Janell was a daughter of the late Rev. Dale E. and C. Mae Decker Kline. She was a member of the Prince Street United Brethren Church, Shippensburg. Janell retired from Shippensburg University. She was...
Chris Sherrerd
Jan 12, 2019
Chris S. Sherrerd, 89, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Saturday, January 12, 2019, at Brookview Menno Haven, Chambersburg. He was born on June 16, 1929, in Clinton, NJ, a son of the late John and Gertrude Sherrerd and married Sarada P. Haines on November 12, 2005, in Elizabethville, PA. Chris worked as an engineer in the...
Gerald Young
Jan 11, 2019
Gerald A “Jerry” Young, 84, of Newburg, passed peacefully with his family by his side, on the evening of Friday, January 11, 2019, at the Carlisle Regional Medical Center. He was born on December 10, 1934, in Englishtown, NJ, a son of the late Albert and Iris Griggs Young and married Diane M. Matyis on June 27, 1992, in Cranbury,...
Paul Piper
Jan 8, 2019
Paul E. Piper, Sr., 80, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the afternoon of Tuesday, January 8, 2019, at his home. He was born on June 22, 1938, in Shippensburg, the son of the late Paul W. and Violet L. Diebert Piper. He married Katherine R. Fontana on March 11, 1970 in Rome, NY. Paul was a U.S. Air Force...
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