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Dorothy Adams
Apr 29, 2015
Dorothy F. Adams, 69, of Shippensburg, died Wednesday, April 29, 2015 in the Shippensburg Health Care Center. Born Thursday, August 16, 1945 in Shippensburg, Franklin County, she was one of 15 children born to the late Noah and Nancy Naugle McMullen. Dorothy was a graduate of the Shippensburg Area Senior High School. She was a member of the First Assembly...
Harry Mohn
Apr 29, 2015
Harry Alfred Mohn, 94, a resident of the Orrstown Personal Care Home, died Wednesday, April 29, 2015 in the home. Harry was born March 5, 1921 in Mowersville. He was a son of the late Bryan and Mary Coleman Mohn. Harry was a life member of the Newburg United Methodist Church and was a past Sunday School Superintendent. He retired...
Bruce Hershey
Apr 21, 2015
Bruce C. Hershey, 87, of Orrstown, died in the early morning hours of Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at his home. He was born on February 8, 1928, in Shippensburg, a son of the late John and Elva R. Dyarman Hershey, Sr. Bruce was a U.S. Navy veteran of W.W. II, enlisting on September 27, 1945 and honorably discharged on February...
Virginia Price
Apr 21, 2015
Virginia W. “Gina” Price, 89, of Shippensburg, died Tuesday, April 21, 2015 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Monday, October 5, 1925 in Forty Fort, Luzerne County, PA, she was the daughter of the late William F. and Mabel I. Markle Witt. Gina was a member of the Messiah United Methodist Church. Surviving is a son, Richard T. Price of Shippensburg...
Ruth Cover
Apr 19, 2015
Ruth V. Cover, 71, of Chambersburg, died Sunday, April 19, 2015 at her home. She was born April 15, 1944 in Newburg. Ruth was a daughter of the late Irvin S. and Annie Catherine Kendall Cover. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by two brothers and two sisters. Surviving are two brothers, Art and Pete Cover,...
Gertrude Staver
Apr 18, 2015
Gertrude E. Staver, 88, of Shippensburg, died Saturday, April 18, 2015 in the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born July 22, 1926 in Chambersburg, Franklin County. Gertrude was a daughter of the late Harvey and Rose Umbrell Laidig. She was a member of the Prince Street United Brethren Church, Shippensburg and the Willing Workers Sunday School Class. Gertrude was a member...
William Willhide
Apr 18, 2015
William L. “Bill” Willhide, 70, of Newville, died on the evening of Saturday, April 18, 2015, at his home. He was born on October 12, 1944, in Shippensburg, a son of the late, Leo Willhide and Mary DeWalt Sheffler. Bill was a U.S. Army veteran enlisting on December 30, 1961 and honorably discharged on December 16, 1964. He married Ms....
Raymond Miller
Apr 16, 2015
R. Max Miller, age 90, resident of the Episcopal Home in Shippensburg, passed away on April 16, 2015 in Chambersburg. Born October 12, 1924 in Meadville, PA, he was the son of the late John R. and Mabel Karn Miller. Max graduated from Berea High School in Berea, Ohio and was in the U.S. Navy from 1942 – 1945. He...
Patsy Myers
Apr 16, 2015
Patsy B. Myers, 73, a resident at the Shippensburg Health Care Center and former resident at Manor Care in Chambersburg, passed away on Thursday, April 16, 2015 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Prior to her numerous illnesses, her home was on Dead End Lane, Shippensburg. Born Tuesday, September 2, 1941 in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, she was a daughter of the late...
Harold Shetter
Apr 15, 2015
Harold W. Shetter, 72, a resident of the Shippensburg Health Care Center, entered Glory Wednesday, April 15, 2015 in the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born August 31, 1942 in Shippensburg. Harold was a son of the late Delbert L. and Katherine E. Gettel Shetter. Harold retired in 1995 from SKF Industries where he was a process operator. He was a...
Maurice Martin
Apr 14, 2015
Maurice M. Martin, 88, of Rockville, MD, died peacefully on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital surrounded by his loving family. Maurice was born on May 4, 1926 in Greenvillage, PA to Charles S. and Laura B. Millhouse Martin. He attended a two room school house where he received an outstanding education referring to it as the...
Frances Swartz
Apr 12, 2015
Frances G. Swartz, 91, of Shippensburg, died on the evening of Sunday, April 12, 2015, at the Shippensburg Health Care Center. She was born on October 2, 1923, in Allen, PA, a daughter of the late Lester and Mary Peiffer Gross, was a 1941 graduate of Mechanicsburg High School, and a U.S. Navy veteran of W.W. II, enlisting on February...
Miriam Porter
Apr 11, 2015
Miriam L. Crouse Porter of Shippensburg passed away on April 11, 2015 at 5:40 p.m. She was born in Decorum, PA on September 26, 1926, a daughter of the late Henry and Ethel Kerlin Crouse. She was preceded in death by four brothers, Dale age 2, Kenneth, Donald, and Radford Crouse and by three sisters, Althea Cisney, Edith Jones, and...
Patricia Hawkins
Apr 5, 2015
Patricia Ann Hawkins, 73, of Newville, died Sunday, April 5, 2015 in the Carlisle Regional Medical Center. Born Saturday, August 23, 1941 in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, she was a daughter of the late James E. and Stella E. Strayer Waugh. Patricia was a member of the Green Spring Brethren in Christ Church and recently attended the Green Spring First Church...
Upton Funk
Apr 4, 2015
Upton K. Funk, 75, of Shippensburg, died on Saturday, April 4, 2015, at his home in Winter Haven, FL. He was born on September 17, 1939, in Chambersburg, the son of the late Upton L. and Beulah Kendig Funk. Upton married Ms. Doris Pugh on March 3, 1962 at the Memorial Lutheran Church, Shippensburg. He was then inducted into the...
Brenton Bailey
Apr 4, 2015
Brenton Ellis Bailey, 42, of Newburg, died Saturday, April 4, 2015 at home. He was born February 17, 1973 in Chambersburg, Franklin County. Brenton was a son of Tonya D. Bailey Burks of Chambersburg. He was a United States Marine Corps Veteran. Brenton was a graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School and a member of the Minnequa Social...
Betty Holtry
Apr 2, 2015
Betty G. Holtry, 84 of Shippensburg, died Thursday, April 2, 2015 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Monday, July 7, 1930 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Herbert Irvin and Virginia Dair Hayes Guyer. Betty retired as an Electronics Analyst May 26, 1992 from Reeve’s Hoffman in Carlisle. She was a member of the Messiah United Methodist Church...
Velva Bistline
Apr 2, 2015
Velva E. Bistline, 97, a resident at Shippensburg Health Care Center, and earlier of Green Ridge Village, Newville, formerly of Shippensburg Mobile Estates, passed away Thursday, April 2, 2015. Born December 13, 1917 in Hopewell Township, Cumberland County, she was the daughter of the late James F. and Emma E. Negley Mowery. Velva was a member of the Prince Street...
Martin Reese
Apr 2, 2015
Martin J. “Marty” Reese, 87, of Shippensburg, died Thursday, April 2, 2015 at his home. He was born December 22, 1927 in Shippensburg, Franklin County. Marty was a son of the late Paul and Edna M. Swanger Reese. Marty was a member of the Otterbein United Methodist Church, Newburg and a lifetime member of the Newburg-Hopewell Volunteer Fire Company. He...
Howard Strawmyre
Mar 29, 2015
Howard R. “Doc” Strawmyre, 95, of Shippensburg, died Sunday, March 29, 2015. Born September 11, 1919 in Altoona, he was a son of the late Charles F. and Ella Dull Strawmyre. He retired in 1985 from the Chambersburg Area School District with 28 years of service as a biology and driver’s education teacher. Howard was a 1939 graduate of Altoona...
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