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Virginia Shields
Jul 22, 2015
Virginia S. Shields, 82, of Shippensburg, passed away Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at home. She was born June 13, 1933 in Carlisle. Virginia was a daughter of the late Boyd and Frances Egolf Martin. She and her late husband, Harold Shields, Sr. co-owned the former Shield’s Cab Company in Carlisle. Virginia enjoyed camping, the Huntsdale fair, knitting, singing with her...
Abram Crider
Jul 15, 2015
Abram D. Crider, 82, of Shippensburg, passed into “Glory” on Wednesday, July 15, 2015. He was born December 20, 1932 in Shippensburg. Abram was a son of the late Charles W. and Anna M. Hock Crider. He was a member of the Ridge Church of the Brethren where he had served as an Usher and Deacon. Abram retired from The...
Pastor Paul Tatum
Jul 15, 2015
Paul Lewis Tatum, age 60, of Shippensburg, passed from this earth into heaven on July 15, 2015. Paul was preceded in death by his father, Deane H. Tatum. Paul is survived by his loving wife, Deborah, and seven remarkable children: Angela, Elizabeth, Paul, Jr., Whitney, Caroline, Anna and Joshua. Paul also had a wonderful grandson, Alexander. Paul is survived by...
M. Louise Heberlig
Jul 13, 2015
M. Louise Heberlig, 94, of Shippensburg, died Monday, July 13, 2015 in Menno Haven, Chambersburg. She was born September 11, 1920 in Shippensburg. Louise was a daughter of the late David and Esther Rosenberry Rhone. She retired from the Letterkenny Army Depot, Chambersburg. Louise was a lifelong member of Grace United Church of Christ, Shippensburg. In addition to her parents...
Dorothy Yeatter
Jul 12, 2015
Dorothy M. Yeatter, 84, of Roxbury Road, Shippensburg, passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 12, 2015 at her daughter’s home in Shippensburg. Born Tuesday, May 19, 1931 in Mongul, Southampton Township, Franklin County, she was a daughter of the late Maurice Leroy and Edna May Holtry Gabler. Dorothy was a member of Mongul United Brethren Church. She was a member...
Erma Wadel
Jul 10, 2015
Erma Jane Wadel, 93, of Shippensburg, died Friday, July 10, 2015 in the Shippensburg Health Care Center. She was born February 13, 1922 in Shippensburg, Franklin County. Erma was a daughter of the late Verne C. and Mary E. Williamson Gettel. She was a member of Messiah United Methodist Church, Shippensburg. Erma was a 1939 graduate of the former Shippensburg...
Gerald Hunt
Jul 3, 2015
Gerald Dennis Hunt, 70, of Shippensburg, died on the morning of Friday, July 3, 2015, at his home with his family by his side. He was born on February 17, 1945, in Erie, the son of the late Wayne Richard and Leona Adams Hunt and married Ms. Charlene J. Gray on August 31, 1963, in Van Nyes, CA. Gerald was...
Avis Laidig
Jun 30, 2015
Avis Jean Laidig, a resident of Green Ridge Village, Newville, and formerly of Shippensburg, died Tuesday, June 30, 2015 in Green Ridge Village. Born September 10, 1925 in Columbus, NE, she was a daughter of the late Edward H. and Hannah May Russell Held. Jean was a retired sales agent at the former Kenneth Hale Real Estate Agency. In the...
Walter Beitler
Jun 30, 2015
Walter M. Beitler, Jr., 99, a resident of the Shook Home, Chambersburg, died in the early morning hours of Tuesday, June 30, 2015, at his residence. He was born on October 18, 2015, in Hagerstown, MD, the son of the late Walter M. and Eva A. Morgan Beitler, Sr. Earlier in his life Walter drove bus for Blue Ridge and...
Edna Vanscyoc
Jun 30, 2015
Edna P. VanScyoc, 95, a resident of the Shippensburg Health Care Center, died Tuesday, June 30, 2015 in the home. She was born August 16, 1919 in Mongul, Franklin County. Edna was a daughter of the late William H. and Mary E. Runshaw Mathna. Edna retired in 1996 from Towne Cleaners in Shippensburg after 44 years of employment. Earlier in...
Linda Singer
Jun 29, 2015
Linda L. Singer, 69, of Shippensburg, died Monday, June 29, 2015 at her son’s home in Carlisle. She was born July 30, 1945 in Opelousas, LA. Linda was a daughter of the late John Lee Wilson and Lorena Bourque Wilson Comeaux. Linda was a cashier at Walmart in Shippensburg. She was a member of the Oscar M. Hykes American Legion...
Joseph Campagno
Jun 29, 2015
Joseph A. “Big Joe” Campagno, 51, of Fayetteville, died on the morning of Monday, June 29, 2015. He was born on September 23, 1963, in Shippensburg, and adopted by the late Jack A. and Phyllis J. Frohm Campagno. Joe was a 1981 graduate of the Shippensburg Area High School, attended the Chambersburg Area Vo-Tech to study mechanical drafting, and he...
Daniel Crider
Jun 29, 2015
Daniel R. ‘Dan” Crider, 67, of Chambersburg, died in the late afternoon hours of Monday, June 29, 2015, at the Meritus Medical Center, Hagerstown, MD. He was born on March 27, 1948, in Shippensburg, PA, a son of the late Daniel A. and Edith H. Varner Crider. Daniel was a U.S. Army veteran and spent most of his military service...
Jean Wolff
Jun 28, 2015
Jean E. Wolff, 59, of Orrstown, died on the afternoon of Sunday, June 28, 2015, at the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born on April 14, 1956, in Chambersburg, a daughter of Elmer P. and Shelby J. Gettel Wolff. Earlier in life, Jean worked as a CNA at Menno Haven, Chambersburg, and she last worked for the former Grove Manufacturing, Shady...
Henry Friese
Jun 27, 2015
Henry Lester Friese, Sr., 82, a resident of the Orrstown Personal Care Home, passed away Saturday, June 27, 2015 with his family by his side. He was born Friday, May 12, 1933 in Letterkenny Twp., Franklin County. Henry was the son of the late Paul L. and Mary E. Forrester Friese. He owned and operated a dairy farm in the...
Carol Drachbar
Jun 26, 2015
Carol Ann Drachbar, 64, of Carlisle, died Friday, June 26, 2015 at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD. She was born September 4, 1950 in Carlisle. Carol was the daughter of the late Donald Earl and Vesta Gayle Stine Clippinger. Carol retired from the Carlisle Area School District, where she taught second grade for 35 years. She was a...
Gladys Buchanan
Jun 25, 2015
Gladys M. Buchanan, 61 of Shippensburg, died Thursday, June 25, 2015 at her home. Born Friday, March 26, 1954 in Alexandria, VA, she was a daughter of the late George and Bertha Beavers Gutridge. Gladys retired in 2005 from the Prince William County School District where she worked as a Food Service Manager. She loved to clean, concerts, listen to...
Mildred Davison
Jun 24, 2015
Mildred C. Davison, 91, a resident of Elmcroft of Shippensburg, died Wednesday, June 24, 2015. She was born May 12, 1924 in Shippensburg. Mildred was a daughter of the late Charles E. and Velva Bowers Chamberlin. She was a member of the Middle Spring Presbyterian Church, Shippensburg. Mildred was a Ruling Elder, a past Secretary and Treasurer of the Women’s...
James Traylor
Jun 24, 2015
James R. Traylor, 68, of Shippensburg, died Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington D.C. Born October 4, 1946 in Easton, PA, he was a son of the late James E. and Gladys Kirkendall Traylor. James was a graduate of the Shippensburg Area Senior High School. He was a United States Army Veteran serving in...
Herbert Hays
Jun 20, 2015
Herbert E. Hays, Jr., 85, of Shippensburg, died on the morning of Saturday, June 20, 2015, at his home. He was born on November 6, 1929, in Hagerstown, MD, a son of the late Herbert E. and Helen C. Mills Hays, Sr. Herbert was United States Army veteran of W.W. II., serving during the occupation of Japan. He was awarded...
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