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Artemis Cupper
Nov 3, 2014
Artemis R. Cupper, 84, of Orrstown, died on the morning of Monday, November 3, 2014, at the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born on September 30, 1930, in Carlisle, the only child of the late Marlin and Hazel Reed Peters. Artemis was employed as a seamstress at the former Marden Clothing Co., Shippensburg, retiring in 1992. She was a long-time member...
Carole Burkett
Nov 1, 2014
Carol E. Burkett, a resident of Manor Care, Chambersburg, died on the evening of Saturday, November 1, 2014, at the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born on March 19, 1950, in Chambersburg, a daughter of the late Forrest C. Mellott and Ruth E. Rosenberry Mellott. Carol married Gary L. “Big Red” Burkett on March 24, 1967, in the Shippensburg First Church...
Thomas Archambeau
Oct 31, 2014
Thomas Paul Archambeau, 74, of Blue Jay Circle, Orrstown, died Friday, October 31, 2014 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Thursday, April 4, 1940 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Paul A. and Gladys S. Shuman Archambeau. He was a United States Air Force Veteran serving during the Vietnam War. Tom was formerly employed at Letterkenny Army Depot...
Patricia Hawbaker
Oct 30, 2014
Patricia A. Hawbaker, 63, a resident of Manor Care, Chambersburg, died Thursday, October 30, 2014 in the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born July 4, 1951 in Findleyville, Bedford County. Patricia was a daughter of the late Shannon and Grace Everhart Hedge. Years ago she worked at the Falling Spring Nursing & Rehabilitation Center as a Nurses Aid. Patricia was a...
Robert Taylor
Oct 29, 2014
Robert D. Taylor, Sr. 91, of Shippensburg, passed away surrounded by his family on October 29, 2014 at Providence Place, Chambersburg, PA where he had resided for close to three years. He was born on October 12, 1923, in Jackson, MI, the son of the late George Dewey and Gladys Leigh Taylor. After graduating from Vandercook Lake High School in...
Janet Nehf
Oct 23, 2014
Janet R. Nehf, 84, of Shippensburg, died on the afternoon of Thursday, October 23, 2014, at the Shippensburg Health Care Center. She was born on September 7, 1930, in Shippensburg, a daughter of the late Paul and Katherine Heberlig Martin, Sr. Janet married her husband, James “Jim” L. Nehf on July 18, 1953, who survives her. Janet was employed as...
Esther Vanscyoc
Oct 21, 2014
Esther C. VanScyoc, 101, a life-long resident of Shippensburg, died on the evening of Tuesday, October 21, 2014. She was born on December 18, 1912, in Shippensburg, the only child of Ira William and Margery Renard Crusey. Esther was both a teacher and homemaker. Upon graduation from the Shippensburg Normal School, she started her teaching career in a rural one...
Aaron Grove
Oct 19, 2014
Aaron Heaster Grove, 26, of Pleasant Hall, died Sunday, October 19, 2014. He was born September 6, 1988 in Chambersburg. Aaron was the son of Ronald O. and Trina P. Heaster Grove of Pleasant Hall. He currently worked for Gannett Fleming in Camp Hill where he was a software developer. During high school and college he worked at McDonalds, Red...
Ezel Manuel
Oct 18, 2014
Ezel James Manuel, Jr., of Shippensburg, died on Saturday, October 18, 2014. He was born on Thursday, September 16, 1948. He was a U.S. Army Veteran of the Vietnam War and earned a Purple Heart medal. Graveside services will be held on Saturday, November 22, 2014 at 12:00 noon in the Locust Grove Cemetery with the Rev. Walter R. Reed...
Kenneth Bender
Oct 16, 2014
Kenneth L. Bender, 69, of Fish Hatchery Road, Shippensburg, died Thursday, October 16, 2014 at his home. Born Sunday, July 1, 1945 in Gettysburg, Adams County, he was a son of Anna Marie Unger Bender of Chambersburg and the late Crawford L. Bender. Kenneth was a 1964 graduate of Chambersburg Area Senior High School, and a member of the Newburg...
Kathryn Ommert
Oct 16, 2014
Kathryn L. “Toot” Ommert, 71, of Newburg, died Thursday, October 16, 2014 in the Holy Spirit Hospital. She was born October 11, 1943 in Newburg, Cumberland County. Kathryn was a daughter of Walter C. and Esther S. Hurley Dunlap of Newburg. She retired from Affiliated Industries in Shippensburg and many years ago worked for Richard’s Textiles. Kathryn was a member...
Agnes Chamberlin
Oct 11, 2014
Agnes M. Chamberlin, 85, a resident of the Orrstown Personal Care Home, formerly of Newburg, died on the evening of Saturday, October 11, 2014 at the Personal Care Home. She was born on December 11, 1928, in Middle Spring, a daughter of the late James Q. and Anna Mabel Crawford Means and was a 1946 graduate of Shippensburg Area High...
Mary Shindledecker
Oct 10, 2014
Mary B. Shindledecker, 94, formerly of Kessler Dr. and then Elmcroft, Shippensburg, died on the morning of Friday, October 10, 2014, at the Shippensburg Health Care Center. She was born on April 1, 1920, in Upper Strasburg, a daughter of the late John and Florence Reitz Basore. On July 21, 1937, she married Leslie M. “Wimpy” Shindledecker in Hagerstown, MD....
Dorothy Wyant
Oct 7, 2014
Dorothy Viola Wyant, 87, of Shippensburg, died on the morning of Tuesday, October 7, 2014, at the Shippensburg Health Care Center. She was born on December 18, 1926, in Shippensburg, a daughter of the late George W. and Ethel Gamble Cover. Dorothy was a homemaker throughout her life. She was a member of the Shippensburg Community Church. In her free...
John Forrester
Oct 6, 2014
John W. Forrester, 93, of Shippensburg, died Monday, October 6, 2014 at home surrounded by his loving family. Born May 29, 1921 in Letterkenny Township, John was a son of the late John H. and Mary A. Reitz Forrester. John was a member of the Mongul United Brethren Church and a retired Dairy Farmer. In addition to his parents he...
Adelaide Fedock
Oct 5, 2014
Adelaide M. Fedock, 90, a long-time resident of the Episcopal Home, Shippensburg, died on the afternoon of Sunday, October 5, 2014, at the Shippensburg Health Care Center. She was born on February 15, 1924, in Girardville, PA, a daughter of the late George and Catherine Stuzkas Matalenas. Adelaide married John Fedock on July 8, 1945. He preceded her in death...
Rev. Erick Peterson
Oct 3, 2014
Rev. Erick Herman Peterson, 86, of Shippensburg, went to be with his Lord on Friday, October 3, 2014 in the Shippensburg Health Care Center. Born May 10, 1928 in Jamestown, NY, he was a son of the late Herman and Ida Westover Peterson. Erick Ministered thru Melodyland Christian Center in Anaheim and helped pioneer several new Congregations in Palm Springs,...
Sarah Heefner
Oct 3, 2014
Sarah J. Heefner, 86, a resident at the Orrstown Personal Care Home for the past five years, died Friday, October 3, 2014 in the home. She was born July 9, 1928 in Shippensburg, PA. Sarah was a daughter of the late Urie E. and Blanche S. Rotz Chamberlin. Sarah was also preceded in death by a two sisters, Helen Chamberlin...
Lacey Horst
Oct 2, 2014
Lacey Noel Horst, 26, of Shippensburg passed away in her home Thursday, October 2, 2014 with her loving family by her side. Diagnosed with cancer two and a half years ago, Lacey never gave up. She never complained. She maintained a brave and optimistic outlook for the future, enduring countless surgeries, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hospitalizations and the ever present pain....
Mildred Heberlig
Oct 1, 2014
Mildred Catherine Heberlig, 88 of Newburg, died Wednesday, October 1, 2014 at Greenridge Village Nursing Home, Newville. Born Monday, May 10, 1926, in Hopewell Township, Cumberland County, she was a daughter of the late W. Bryan and Sadie Wenger Morrow. She was a lifelong resident of the Newburg area. She is survived by her husband of 67 years, Frank Shuman...
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