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Brenda Smith
Jan 2, 2017
Brenda Marie Smith, 61, of Shippensburg, passed away Monday, January 2, 2017 at her home. She was born January 14, 1955 in Gettysburg, PA. Brenda was a daughter of Naomi H. Koontz Bair,originally of Hanover, and the late Dale G. Bair. She retired as an LPN from the Chambersburg Hospital. Brenda was a very active member of the Newburg United...
James Yeingst
Jan 2, 2017
James H. Yeingst, Jr., 72, of Shippensburg, passed away Monday, January 2, 2017 at the Carlisle Regional Medical Center. Born Wednesday, November 22, 1944 in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, he was a son of the late James H. Yeingst, Sr. and Ethylene Myers Short. James was a graduate of Cumberland Valley High School. He was an entrepreneur and business owner of...
Ralph Haines
Jan 1, 2017
Ralph Gilbert Haines, 90, a resident of Green Ridge Village, Newville, formerly of Shippensburg, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Sunday, January 1, 2017. Born on July 30, 1926, in Newport, he was a son of the late Lewis Samuel and Dollie Irene Murphy Haines. Ralph was a 1945 graduate of Newport Senior High School. He served...
Harold Mowers
Dec 31, 2016
Harold E. Mowers, 97, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the afternoon of Saturday, December 31, 2016, at his home. Born on March 9, 1919, in Newville, he was a son of the late James E. and Alice Shatzer Mowers. Harold was a U.S. Army Veteran of WW II, inducted on July 2, 1942 and honorably discharged on November 3,...
Catherine Meyer
Dec 27, 2016
Catherine A. Meyer, 71, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 27, 2016. She was born on January 14, 1945, in County Kerry, Ireland, the daughter of the late Edward and Catherine V. Hanlon McCarthy and married James J. Meyer on September 4, 1965, in the Bronx, NY. Catherine was a homemaker, a loving mother to...
Wanida Johnson
Dec 24, 2016
Wanida J. Johnson, 84, of Orrstown, passed away, Saturday, December 24, 2016 in the Shippensburg Health Care Center. She was born August 26, 1932 in Shape Gap, PA. Wanida was a daughter of the late Jay and Margaret Tice Piper. Her husband, Wayne H. Johnson died August 4, 2008 and one brother, Gary Piper is also deceased. She was a...
Shirley Willhide
Dec 23, 2016
Shirley J. Willhide, 67, of Kissimmee, Fl., died Friday, December 23, 2016 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born December 28, 1948 in Enola, Cumberland County, she was a daughter of the late John and Jessee Dora Hafer Bubb, Sr. Shirley was of the Methodist Faith and a Soldier of the Salvation Army. She was the owner and operator alongside her husband...
Ammon Weaver
Dec 21, 2016
Ammon H. Weaver, 66, of Shippensburg, died Wednesday, December 21, 2016 in his home. He was born July 14, 1950 in Ephrata, Lancaster County. Ammon was a son of Annie Hoover Weaver of Orrstown, and the late John D. Weaver. One brother, Raymond Weaver and grandson, Eldon Weaver are also deceased. Ammon was a retired farmer. He was a member...
Patrick Mccleaf
Dec 19, 2016
Patrick H. McCleaf passed away on December 19, 2016, at the age of 69. He was born on April 11, 1947, to the late Samuel S. and Olive E. Winters McCleaf. He was a 1965 graduate of the Shippensburg High School. He was a United States Navy Veteran from 1965 to 1969. He was in the Seabees and served in...
Charles Deimler
Dec 16, 2016
Charles Keith Deimler, 25, of Newburg, PA., went to be with his Lord on Friday, December 16, 2016. He was a generous and loving young man who was firm in his faith and believed that we have a limited amount of time, we need to start living right. Born May 24, 1991 in Camp Hill, he was a son of...
Jerome Weaver
Dec 16, 2016
Jerome D. Weaver, 58, of Shippensburg, passed away Friday, December 16, 2016. He was born April 2, 1958 in Phoenixville, PA. Jerome was a son of the late Elmer H. and Dorothy Good Weaver. He attended Doubling Gap Church of God, Newville. Jerome worked for New Penn Motor Express, Camp Hill. He was a 1976 graduate of the Shippensburg Area...
Jordan Albright
Dec 15, 2016
Jordan L. Albright, one day old, of Waynesboro, departed this life on the evening of Thursday, December 15, 2016, at the M.S. Hershey Medical Center. She is survived by her mother and father, Aleisa J. Albright and Trever R. Yeager of Waynesboro; brother and sister, John and Jenna; maternal grandmother, Debbie Ireland of Waynesboro; maternal grandfather, John (Janice ) Evans...
Margaret "Margie" Siegfried
Dec 15, 2016
Margaret “Margie” D. Siegfried, 86, a resident of the Shippensburg Health Care Center, departed this life on the morning of Thursday, December 15, 2016. She was born on December 21, 1929, in Dalmatia, a daughter of the late Irvin and Mary Engle. Margie was a homemaker throughout her life. She was very easy going person and lived a very simple...
Ruth Baker
Dec 13, 2016
Ruth A. Baker, 86, of Shippensburg, passed away Tuesday, December 13, 2016 in the Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was born November 7, 1930 in Shippensburg. Ruth was a daughter of the late Harper John and Ruth Molly Perry Adams. Her husband, Walter C. Baker passed away November 2, 2016 and one brother, Leroy Adams is also deceased....
Larry Martin
Dec 13, 2016
Larry L. Martin, 73, of Orrstown, departed this life on the morning of Tuesday, December 13, 2016, at the Claremont Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Carlisle. Born on October 19, 1943, in Newburg, he was a son of the late Robert M. Martin, Sr. and Sarah J. Rebuck Martin. Larry married Wilma J. Lehman on April 14, 1973 at the Trinity...
Jordan Horn
Dec 11, 2016
Jordan Kamarie Horn, 18 years young, departed this life on the morning of Sunday, December 11, 2016. She was born on January 17, 1998, in Chambersburg, the daughter of Emery P. Horn, II and Traci Mills Yohe. Jordan was currently completing her senior year at Chambersburg Area High School and hoped to continue her education to become a teacher herself....
Juanita Gsell
Dec 10, 2016
Juanita L Gsell, 73, of Shippensburg, passed away Saturday, December 10, 2016 in Menno Haven, Chambersburg. She was born May 14, 1943 in Waynesboro. Juanita was a daughter of the late Melvin and Virginia Seekford Butts. She was a member of the Prince Street United Brethren Church, Shippensburg. Juanita retired from AMP Inc., Waynesboro where she was a machinist. She...
Jay Gettel
Dec 10, 2016
Jay E. Gettel, 88, of Shippensburg, died Saturday, December 10, 2016 at his home. Born May 8, 1928 in Shippensburg, Franklin County, he was a son of the late Walter W. and Amanda Wenger Gettel. Jay was a member of the Air Hill Brethren in Christ Church. He owned and operated his family farm, he worked as a truck driver...
John Brown
Dec 10, 2016
John Franklin Brown, 74, of Walnut Bottom, departed this life on the afternoon of Saturday, December 10, 2016, at his home surrounded by his family. He was born on May 25, 1942, in Newville, a son of the late Clair F. and Mary J. Varner Brown and attended Shippensburg Area Schools. John married Susan Dorosh on January 25, 1964 at...
Michael Shoemaker
Dec 8, 2016
Michael James Shoemaker, 42, of Shippensburg, died Thursday, December 8, 2016. Born February 18, 1974 in Chambersburg, he was a son of Connie D. Allen Killinger of Shippensburg and James W. Shoemaker III of Chambersburg. In addition to his parents, he is survived by his step father Terry Killinger, half- brother, Bryan Scott Shoemaker, of Phoenix, AZ; two step sisters,...
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