Obituaries
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Local Obituaries for Shippensburg, PA & Surrounding Areas

Patsy Gipe
Mar 31, 2018
Patsy A. Gipe, 65 of Newville, passed away Saturday, March 31, 2018 at home. She was born January 30, 1953 in Chambersburg, Franklin County, PA. Patsy was a daughter of the late Robert and Vesta Pearl Thomas Miller. Patsy was a graduate of the Big Spring High School. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by one...
Anna Kelley
Mar 31, 2018
Anna Belle Kelley, 101, a resident of Manor Care, Chambersburg, formerly of Shippensburg, passed away Saturday, March 31, 2018 in the home. She was born September 10, 1916 in Mainsville, PA. Anna Belle was a daughter of the late Benjamin and Frances Etta Hippensteel Helm. She was a member of the Shippensburg Church of the Brethren. Years ago Anna Belle...
Wardna Russell
Mar 30, 2018
Wardna V. Russell, 94, of Shippensburg, passed away peacefully on Friday, March 30, 2018 at the Church of God Home in Carlisle, surrounded by her loving family. Born Saturday, May 12, 1923 in Burnsville, WV, she was a daughter of the late Charles W. and Jessie Barker Knight. Wardna retired after 25 years of service from the former Hoffman Mills,...
John Wadel
Mar 29, 2018
John M. Wadel, 87, a resident of the Orrstown Personal Care Home, formerly of White Church Road, Shippensburg, passed away Thursday, March 29, 2018 in the home. He was born February 11, 1931 in Newburg, PA. John was a son of the late William P. and Anna P. Shriner Wadel. He was a member of the Prince Street United Brethren...

Daisy Mowery
Mar 29, 2018
Daisy C. Mowery, 92, of Shippensburg, passed away Thursday, March 29, 2018 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Sunday, December 20, 1925 in Shippensburg, she was a daughter of the late Arthur and Anna Varner Hancock. Daisy was a member of the Prince Street United Brethren Church, Shippensburg. She is survived by one son, Darryl L. (Barbara) Mowery, Shippensburg; one daughter,...
E Angle-Freeland
Mar 23, 2018
E. Ann Angle-Freeland, 94, formerly of Shippensburg, went to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, on the evening of Friday, March 23, 2018, at the Brethren Home at Cross Keys, New Oxford, PA. She was born on January 12, 1924, in York, PA, the daughter of the late Charles Robert and Esther Kathleen Julius Brown. Ann was a...
Raymond Goss
Mar 23, 2018
Raymond N. Goss, 84, formerly of Lewistown, late of Shippensburg, departed this life on the afternoon of Friday, March 23, 2018, at the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born on September 16, 1933, in Lewistown, a son of the late Herbert and Ella M. Henry Goss and was a 1952 graduate of Chief Logan High School. Raymond was a veteran of...
Paul Mckenrick
Mar 21, 2018
Paul W. McKenrick, 78, a resident of the Shippensburg Health Care Center, passed away Wednesday, March 21, 2018 in the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born January 9, 1940 in Orrstown, PA. Paul was a son of the late Joseph W. and Margaret G. Adams McKenrick. Paul was a member of the Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Chambersburg and was a...
Sarah Misner
Mar 19, 2018
Sarah P. Misner, 89, a resident of the Episcopal Home, Shippensburg, departed this life on the evening of Monday, March 19, 2018. She was born on January 16, 1929, in Newburg, a daughter of the late Elmer F. and Anna Mary Halter Hurley. Sarah worked as a seamstress for the former Nettie Frocks Co., Shippensburg. She attended the Green Spring...
Patricia Goshorn
Mar 16, 2018
Patricia A. Goshorn, 59, of Willow Hill, passed away Friday, March 16, 2018 in the Shippensburg Health Care Center. She was born October 14, 1958 in Shippensburg. Patricia was a daughter of Ralph and Donna Clark Harre of Shippensburg. She was a head cook at Kriner Hall at the Shippensburg University. Patricia was a 1977 graduate of the Shippensburg Area...
Harry Tosten
Mar 15, 2018
Harry W. Tosten, 85, of Shippensburg, passed away Thursday, March 15, 2018 in the Shippensburg Health Care Center. He was born February 9, 1933 in Shippensburg, Cumberland County. Harry was a son of the late Russell W. and Maude Halter Tosten. He was a Dairy Farmer all his life on the Ridge Road. Harry was a member of the Ridge...
Scott Shaver
Mar 10, 2018
Scott Eugene Shaver, 46, of Camp Hill, and formerly of Newburg, died Saturday, March 10, 2018 at Holy Spirt Hospital. Born Sunday, March 21, 1971 in Chambersburg, he was a son of Anna Kathryn Lindsey Shaver, of Shippensburg, and the late Donald Franklin Shaver. Scott was of the Protestant Faith. He enjoyed fishing, camping, and landscaping. In addition to his...
Patricia Ruth
Mar 9, 2018
Patricia R. Ruth, 85, of Chambersburg, departed this life on the morning of Friday, March 9, 2018. She was born on December 1, 1932, in Shippensburg, a daughter of the late Lester and Ethel Mae Hoke Frey. Patricia was a 1950 graduate of Shippensburg High School and married William H. Ruth on June 23, 1951. Patricia was an excellent homemaker...

Amy Heberlig
Mar 9, 2018
Amy L. Heberlig, 93, a resident of the Sarah Todd Nursing Home, Carlisle, departed this life on the evening of Friday, March 9, 2018. She was born in Upper Mifflin Twp., Cumberland County, a daughter of the late George and Minnie Davidson Hoover. Amy was a homemaker throughout her life and helped her late husband, Adam, on their family farm....
Shirley Johnson
Mar 9, 2018
Shirley M. Johnson, 70, of Shippensburg, passed away Friday, March 9, 2018 at home. She was born January 11, 1948 in Alexandria, VA. She was a daughter of the late John and Bertha Miller Hodge. She is survived by her three sisters, Betty J. Sutphin and Helen M. Thompson both of Shippensburg and Dorothy J. Guinn of Lolo, MT, a...
Donald Gutshall
Mar 7, 2018
Donald L. Gutshall, 64, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Wednesday, March 7, 2018, at his home. His funeral services, entrusted to the Fogelsanger-Bricker Funeral Home & Crematorium, Inc., Shippensburg, will be private. There will be no public viewing or visitation.
Ivan Boring
Mar 6, 2018
Ivan Lance Boring, 31, of Mt. Holly Springs, departed this life on the morning of Tuesday, March 6, 2018, at his home. He was born on February 9, 1987, in Chambersburg, a son of the late William Boring and Marie Catherine Oyer Hughes. Ivan was a 2006 graduate of Shippensburg Area High School and also graduated from YTI with a...
Judith O'Donnell
Mar 4, 2018
Judith K. O’Donnell, 75, of Shippensburg, passed away Sunday, March 4, 2018 at Select Specialty Hospital, Harrisburg. She was born July 13, 1942 in Windam Twp, Bradford County. Judith was a daughter of the late Andrew H. and Eliza V. Cowell Kipp. She was a member of South Mountain Chapel Brethren in Christ Church, Shippensburg. Judith retired from Cumberland Crossings,...
Anna Shannon
Mar 3, 2018
Anna M. Shannon, 81, of Lurgan, passed away Saturday, March 3, 2018 in the Shippensburg Health Care Center. She was born December 25, 1936 in Lurgan, PA. Anna was a daughter of the late Robert J. and Ethel M. Cressler Fortna. She was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Orrstown. Anna retired from the Mechanicsburg Naval Depot. She was...
Anna Peterson
Mar 3, 2018
Anna “Ann” Elizabeth Florentina Peterson, 86, of Shippensburg, passed away on Saturday, March 3, 2018 at the Shippensburg Health Care Center. Born Sunday, August 16, 1931 in Jamestown, New York, the daughter of the late Herman C. and Elizabeth “Betty” Berg Carlson. Ann was a member of the Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, Landisburg. She enjoyed sewing, handcrafts, and reading. As...