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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...
John Swieczkowski
Jun 17, 2015
John A. Swieczkowski, Sr., 74, of Shippensburg, died on the morning of Wednesday, June 17, 2015, at his home. He was born on October 23, 1940, in Latrobe, a son of the late Joseph Anthony and Catherine Margaret Uhring Swieczkowski and married Ms. Gloria A. Orazio on June 30, 1962, in Derry, PA. John was a self-employed painter, but for...
Brigitte Gregg
Jun 16, 2015
Brigitte T. Gregg, 55, of Shippensburg, died Tuesday, June 16, 2015 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Sunday, January 10, 1960 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Bruce A. and Pauline E. Shoop Diehl. Brigitte was a 1977 graduate of the Shippensburg Area Senior High School. She was of the Protestant Faith and was a self employed housekeeper....
Hazel Handshew
Jun 14, 2015
Hazel Louise Handshew, 81, of Newville, died on Sunday, June 14, 2015, at her son’s home. She was born on August 6, 1933, in Mainsville, a daughter of the late Paris and Edna Kriner Devor, but was raised by the late Floyd and Gladys Rowe. She married William Handshew on April 7, 1962 in Ft. Loudon, PA. Hazel was a...
Donald Yeager
Jun 14, 2015
Donald L. Yeager, Sr., 75, of Shippensburg, died on the afternoon of Sunday, June 14, 2015, at the Shippensburg Health Care Center. He was born on January 24, 1940, in Chambersburg, a son of the late Merle and Louise Yeager. Donald was a member of the U.S. Army Reserves during the Vietnam War Era. He married Ms. Mary Ann Mitchell...
E. Jane Kelso
Jun 14, 2015
E. Jane Kelso, 80, of Newburg, died Sunday, June 14, 2015 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born November 16, 1934, in Carlisle, Jane was the daughter of the late Levi C. and Mabel Davidson Sollenberger. She was a member of Hopewell United Methodist Church, Newburg. Jane retired from AMP Incorporated, Carlisle. She and her late husband, Gerald H. Kelso dairy farmed...
Joanna Swartz
Jun 13, 2015
Joanna A. Shank Swartz, 79, of Maizefield Drive, Shippensburg, passed away peacefully on Saturday, June 13, 2015 at her home surrounded by her loving family. Born Monday, August 19, 1935 in Shippensburg, she was a daughter of the late Walter A. and Maye L. Shoap Shank. Joanna was a 1954 graduate of the Shippensburg Senior High School. She was a...
Ronald Holtry
Jun 13, 2015
Ronald M. Holtry, 81, passed away, Saturday, June 13, 2015 in the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born December 17, 1933 in Shippensburg. Ronald was the son of the late Charles Melvin and Daisy Marie Coffey Holtry. He retired as Budget Director, DESCOM, at Letterkenny Army Depot. Ronald was a member of the Leesburg United Methodist Church since 1949. He served...
Helen Mathna
Jun 11, 2015
Helen Margaret Hoover Mathna, 90 of Washington Street, Shippensburg, a resident at Green Ridge Village, Newville, died June 11, 2015 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Thursday, January 29, 1925 in Newburg, she was the daughter of the late John Clarence and Lotti G. Wagner Hoover. Helen married Dana C. Mathna on June 29, 1946. He preceded her in death on...
Charles Cover
Jun 6, 2015
Charles M. Cover, Jr., 89, a resident of Menno Haven, Chambersburg, died on the afternoon of Saturday, June 6, 2015. He was born on September 29, 1925, in Shippensburg, a son of the late Charles M. and Carrie Cover, Sr., and married Ms. Dorothy G. Killian on July 23, 1948, in Shippensburg. Charles was employed at the Letterkenny Army Depot,...
Linda Mcbeth
Jun 5, 2015
Linda Dianne McBeth, 61, of Walnut Bottom, passed away Friday, June 5, 2015 surrounded by her loving family. She was born December 22, 1953 in Carlisle. Linda was a daughter of Cecelia Edith Vanasdlen Fulton of Shippensburg, and the late James Bruce Fulton, II. For over 15 years she managed Amy’s Thai Cuisine in Carlisle, prior to that Linda was...
Douglas Cooper
Jun 4, 2015
Douglas Windsor Cooper, Sr., 82, of Shippensburg passed peacefully on the evening of Thursday, June 4, 2015, at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born May 30, 1933 in Baltimore, MD, the son of the late William Fletcher and Mary Reese Cooper. Douglas was a 1952 graduate of Westminster High School and earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University...
Dolora Mitten
Jun 2, 2015
Dolora LaRue Mitten, of Shippensburg, met her Savior face to face on June 2, 2015 in her home and surrounded by many of her loving family. Dolora was born May 7, 1924, in Woodvale, Pa., to the late Earle and Leone (Bradley) Scott. She was preceded in death by her brother Merideith “Buddy” Scott. Following graduation from Robertsdale High School,...
Grace Shannon
Jun 1, 2015
Grace E. Shannon, 82, a resident of Green Ridge Village, Newville, died on the afternoon of Monday, June 1, 2015. She was born in Chambersburg, a daughter of the late John and Vergie Russell Lynch. In 1948, Grace married John J. Shannon. He preceded her in death on February 19, 1993. Grace worked as a Presser at the former Greif...
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