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Logan Coy
Mar 24, 2017
Logan Andrew Coy, 27 years young, departed this life on the afternoon of Friday, March 24, 2017, at his home surrounded by his family and friends. Born on June 29, 1989, in Carlisle, a son of the late Wilbur Thomas Coy and Vivian F. Watson Coy. He was a 2007 graduate of Shippensburg Area High School. Logan was most recently...
Jack Goodhart
Mar 19, 2017
Jack E. Goodhart, 86, of Chambersburg, passed away Sunday, March 19, 2017 at Pinnacle Health, West Shore. Born July 23, 1930 in Shippensburg, PA, Jack was a son of the late Carl E. and Dorothy I. Zullinger Goodhart. Jack retired in 1992 as a Fifth Grade Teacher at Coldbrook Elementary School, Chambersburg. After retiring, Jack was a courier for the...
Robert Zeigler
Mar 15, 2017
Robert Bryan “Bobby” Zeigler, 45, of Carlisle and formerly of Shippensburg, passed away Wednesday, March 15, 2017 in the Carlisle Regional Medical Center. Born Thursday, June 10, 1971 in Chambersburg, he was the son of Gloria Diane Kriner Zeigler of Carlisle and Robert Carroll Zeigler of Chambersburg. Bobby worked for the Park and Recs Department at the Carlisle Fair Grounds....
Alice Bender
Mar 14, 2017
Alice Louise Fields Bender of Pleasant Hall, Pa, went to be with the Lord March 14, 2017 at her home surrounded by her loved ones. Born October 6, 1930 in Orrstown, she was the daughter of George W. S. Fields and Edith (Smith) Fields. She was married to Richard George Bender, Sr. on January 3, 1948 and they raised seven...
Genevieve Smith
Mar 9, 2017
Genevieve A. Smith, 85, life-long resident of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Thursday, March 9, 2017, at her home. She was born on February 13, 1932, in Shippensburg, a daughter of the late Harry J. and Iva L. Rowe Smith. Genevieve was a 1949 graduate of Shippensburg High School and earned a Bachelor’s and also a Master’s...
Martha Jones
Mar 9, 2017
Martha L. Jones, 90, life-long resident of Shippensburg, departed this life on the evening of Thursday, March 9, 2017. She was born on November 18, 1926, in Shippensburg, a daughter of the late Jerry C. and Violet Fitzgerald Thomas, Sr. Martha was a 1944 graduate of Shippensburg High School and married William C. Jones on July 2, 1949, in Hagerstown,...
Jennifer Mower
Mar 8, 2017
Jennifer LeAnne Mower, 23, of Shippensburg, passed away Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at her home. Born May 9, 1993 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of Michelle A. Mower of Shippensburg. Jennifer was a 2012 graduate of the Shippensburg Area Senior High School. She was a member of the Oasis of Love Church, Shippensburg. Jen was a life member of...
John Winters
Mar 8, 2017
John Edwin Winters, 75, of Shippensburg, Passed away Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at the Shippensburg Health Care Center. Born Monday, September 1, 1941 in Cogan Station, PA., he was a son of the late Russell A. and Grace Briggs Winters. John was of the Lutheran Faith. He was a United States Navy Veteran serving in the Vietnam War. John worked...
Charlotte Commerer
Mar 7, 2017
Charlotte B. “Char” Commerer, 71, beloved wife and mother, departed this life on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 7, 2017, at the Carlisle Regional Medical Center. She was born on April 29, 1945, in Shippensburg, a daughter of the late William and Florence Henshaw Brinkerhoff and married George David Commerer on December 31, 1999 at their home. Char retired from...
Joseph Isaac
Mar 7, 2017
Joseph B. Isaac, 93, of Shippensburg, passed away Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at his home. Born Monday, October 29, 1923 in Washington, D.C., he was a son of the late Elmer E. and Grace D. Becker Isaac. Joseph was of the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Faith. He was a United States Army Veteran serving in WWII with the 24th Calvary...
Kenneth Reisinger
Mar 5, 2017
Kenneth R. Reisinger, 87, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Sunday, March 5, 2017, at the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born on June 10, 1929 in Academia, PA, a son of the late James and Ethel Powell Reisinger. Kenneth was a veteran of the United States Army, inducted on April 10, 1951, transferred to the reserves on...
Thomas Hockersmith
Mar 5, 2017
Thomas William Hockersmith, 60, of Shippensburg, passed away Sunday, March 5, 2017 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Sunday, July 8, 1956 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Charles Samuel Hockersmith and Marietta Maxine Potter Hockersmith of Shippensburg. Thomas was a United States Army Veteran serving during the Vietnam War. He was presently employed at Letterkenny Army Depot...
Jose Figueroa
Feb 27, 2017
Jose Luis Figueroa, 58, of Shippensburg, passed away Monday, February 27, 2017 at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Born Sunday, February 22, 1959 in Bronx, NY, he was a son of the late Jose D. Figueroa and Luz Maria Acevedo Figueroa of Miami, FL. Jose was of the Catholic Faith. He was a 1977 graduate of James Monroe High...
Joann Ketterer
Feb 27, 2017
Joann B. Ketterer 1941 ~ 2017 Joann B. Ketterer, 75, of Newville, passed away Monday, February 27, 2017 in the Hershey Medical Center. She was born Monday, December 8, 1941 in Grant Township, Indiana County. Joann was a daughter of the late Elmer and June Burns Buterbaugh. . Joann was a 1959 graduate of the Marion Center High School in...
Charles "Rick" Wingerd
Feb 25, 2017
Charles M. “Rick” Wingerd, 74, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the afternoon of Saturday, February 25, 2017, at the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born on October 1, 1942, the son of the late Harold C. Wingerd and Mabel V. Shoop Wingerd Jones and step-father Leslie K. Jones. Charles was a 1965 graduate of Shippensburg State College, earning a Bachelor...
Amos Neil
Feb 22, 2017
Amos Earl Neil, 80, of Orrstown, departed this life on the evening of Wednesday, February 22, 2017, at the Harrisburg Hospital. He was born on January 20, 1937, in Willow Hill, a son of the late Howard C. and Edith A. Devor Neil and married Nora V. Freet on January 29, 1972, in Hagerstown. Amos was employed at T.B. Woods,...
Daisy Allen
Feb 17, 2017
Daisy R. Allen, 81, of Shippensburg, passed away Friday, February 17, 2017 in the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born Friday, May 24, 1935 in Walnut Bottom. PA. Daisy was a daughter of the late Benjamin J. and Lula May Eutzy Ott. Daisy was a devoted caregiver to her youngest daughter, Cassandra. She enjoyed photography, especially outdoors. Daisy attended Cleversburg United...
Elizabeth Reber
Feb 17, 2017
Elizabeth Lewis Reber, 95, formerly of Shippensburg, late of Farnham, VA, went to be with the Lord on Friday, February 17, 2017. She was a member of Bethany Baptist Church, a retired Assistant Vice President for Riggs National Bank in Washington, DC, the daughter of Mitchell and Eula Lewis, and the widow of Charles William Reber. She is survived by...
Samuel Gehrett
Feb 15, 2017
Samuel E. “Sam” Gehrett, 88, of Shippensburg, passed away Wednesday, February 15, 2017 in the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born July 21, 1928 in Chambersburg, PA. Sam was a son of the late Walter and Zelda Stenson Gehrett. He retired from Charles Karper Trucking, Chambersburg, where he drove for over 25 years. Prior to driving truck he worked at Domestic...
Betty Beam
Feb 15, 2017
Betty Pauline Beam, 86, of East Burd Street, Shippensburg, passed away Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at the Shippensburg Health Care Center. Born Thursday, October 30, 1930 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Roy and Emma Beam but raised by Melvin and Rose Scherick. Betty was a member of the Prince Street United Brethren Church in Shippensburg. She...
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