Obituaries

Recent Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Shippensburg, PA & Surrounding Areas

Cyrilla Riester

Cyrilla Riester

May 8, 2013

Cyrilla E. Riester, 96, a resident of Greenridge Village, formerly of Shippensburg, died Wednesday, May 8, 2013 in the home. Born January 20, 1917 in Hagerstown, MD, she was a daughter of the late Andrew and Emma Elko Mihalik. Cyrilla was a member of Our Lady of the Visitation Catholic Church in Shippensburg. She was preceded in death by her...

Anthony Kelley

Anthony Kelley

May 6, 2013

Anthony C. Kelley, Sr., 82, of Shippensburg, died Monday, May 6, 2013 in the Carlisle Regional Medical Center. Born March 6, 1931 in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, he was a son of the late John N. and Clara B. Crusey Kelley. Anthony retired from ITT Domestic Pump in Shippensburg and was a member of Shippensburg Church of Christ. He was a...

Galen Staver

Galen Staver

May 6, 2013

Galen P. Staver, 90, of Shippensburg, died Monday, May 6, 2013 at home. Born November 1, 1922 in Lurgan Township, Franklin County, he was a son of the late Paul and Dorothy Baker Staver. Galen was a member of Grace United Church of Christ since 1944, and was a former Deacon and Elder. He retired from Novinger in Harrisburg in...

Victor  Vaughn

Victor Vaughn

May 5, 2013

Victor H. “Pap” Vaughn, Sr., 81, of Chambersburg, died unexpectedly on the morning of Sunday, May 5, 2013, at his home. He was born on February 29, 1932, in Newburg, a son of the late William R. and Rhoda M. Cramer Vaughn and was the husband of Charlotte L. Hurley Vaughn, who passed away on November 11, 2012. Victor was...

Tyler Myers

Tyler Myers

May 4, 2013

Tyler Lamar Myers passed away in Lebanon, NJ, on Friday, May 3, 2013 at the age of 32. Tyler will be joining his paternal grandparents George and Florence Myers, his uncle Norman Sauder , his aunt Ruth Myers Rosenberry, and his cousins Jonathan Witter and Abigail Hershberger, who have gone on to heaven before him. Tyler leaves behind his loving...

Jeffrey Coons

Jeffrey Coons

May 4, 2013

Jeffrey I. Coons, Sr., 48, of Shippensburg, died on the morning of Saturday, May 4, 2013, at the M.S. Hershey Medical Center. He was born on October 26, 1964, in Chambersburg, PA, a son of Jack I. and Anna “Barbara” Cummings Coons. Jeffrey was currently employed at KFC/Taco Bell, Shippensburg and had also worked for Benders, in the past. He...

Walter Hock

Walter Hock

May 3, 2013

Walter E. Hock, 82, of Orrstown Road, Shippensburg, died Friday, May 3, 2013 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Saturday, March 14, 1931 in Shippensburg, he was a son of the late Rankin S. and Annie Henderson Hock. Walter was a member of the Hope Reformed Presbyterian Church, Shippensburg. He served 21 years in the United States Army serving in the...

Brandy Guyer

Brandy Guyer

May 2, 2013

Brandy Jo Guyer, 29, of Kuhn Road, Greencastle, died suddenly on Thursday, May 2, 2013. Born Sunday, November 13, 1983 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of Todd Eugene Guyer and Kimberly A. Johnson both of Newburg. Brandy was of the Lutheran Faith. She was a United States Army Veteran serving in the Iraq War as a Combat Medic. She...

Kathryn Gilbert

Kathryn Gilbert

May 2, 2013

Kathryn E. (Ringer) Gilbert, 38, of West King Street, Shippensburg, entered into eternal rest on Thursday, May 2, 2013 surrounded by her family and friends after a long battle with cancer. Born Friday, March 21, 1975 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of Kenneth W. Ringer of Ocala, FL and Cathie F. Buckner Allan of Chambersburg. Kathryn worked as a...

Charles Coldsmith

Charles Coldsmith

Apr 30, 2013

Charles L. Coldsmith, 85, of Shippensburg, died Tuesday, April 30, 2013 in the Shippensburg Health Care Center. Born June 18, 1927 in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, he was a son of the late Roy and Esther Cook Coldsmith. Charles retired from the Letterkenny Army Depot, Chambersburg. He was United States Army Veteran of World War II where he was a Military...

Margaret  Clark

Margaret Clark

Apr 23, 2013

Margaret A. "Margie" Clark, 95, of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, passed away peacefully of natural causes with family at her side in Hagerstown, Maryland on April 23, 2013. She was born 'the 5th child, on the 5th day of the 5th month,' May 5, 1917, at home, 118 North Prince St. in Shippensburg, to the late Charles A. and Grace I. Myers...

Daryl Isble

Daryl Isble

Apr 22, 2013

Daryl E. Isble 55, of Tampa, FL., and formerly of Shippensburg, died Monday, April 22, 2013 at 3:30 p.m. in Tampa General Hospital. Born July 21, 1957 in Cincinnati, Ohio, he was a son of the late Lois Isble Inman and step father Kenneth Inman. Daryl worked for the Roxbury Treatment Center in Shippensburg as a driver and loved hunting...

William Montague

William Montague

Apr 22, 2013

William Budd Montague, II, 81, of Shippensburg, died Monday, April 22, 2013 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Budd was born June 24, 1931 in Chestnut Hill, PA. He was a son of the late William E., II and Mildred Stout Montague. Budd was a Letter Carrier at the Shippensburg Post Office from 1957 until 1989, then for the next ten years...

Joanna Jorgensen

Joanna Jorgensen

Apr 20, 2013

Joanna D. Jorgensen, 80, of Shippensburg, died Saturday, April 20, 2013 in the Chambersburg Hospital Emergency Room. She was born August 17, 1932 in Middlesex, New Jersey. Joanna is survived by her husband, Robert A. Jorgensen, one daughter Debra Fitzgerald of Carlisle, and one son, Robert A. Jorgensen, Jr. of New Jersey. At the discretion of the Jorgensen family the...

Zayden Raifsnider

Zayden Raifsnider

Apr 19, 2013

Zayden Paul Raifsnider, eight months old, of Walnut Bottom Road, Shippensburg, passed away Friday, April 19, 2013 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Friday, August 31, 2012 in Chambersburg, he was a son of Bart Andrew Raifsnider Jr., and Kelsey Jo Donaldson. In addition to his parents, Zayden is survived by a brother, Urijah Gavin Raifsnider and a sister, Izzebella Marie...

Larry Dell

Larry Dell

Apr 14, 2013

Larry R. “Buck” Dell, 59, of Shippensburg, died Sunday, April 14, 2013 at the Fulton County Medical Center. He was born January 14, 1954 in Shade Gap, Huntingdon County. Larry was a son of the late Richard B. and Mildred M. Parsons Dell. He currently was employed at Letterkenny Army Depot, Chambersburg. Larry was a 1971 graduate of the Southern...

Shirley  Mogerman

Shirley Mogerman

Apr 14, 2013

Shirley A. Mogerman, 65, of Shippensburg, passed Sunday, April 14, 2013 at home surrounded by her loving family. Shirley was born November 5, 1947 in Chambersburg. She was a daughter of the late Gerald A., Sr. and Emma F. Beidel Diehl. Shirley retired from the Transportation Department of the Shippensburg Area School District after 33 years of employment. She was...

Theodore  Horn

Theodore Horn

Apr 13, 2013

Theodore J. “Ted” Horn, 77, of West King Street, Shippensburg, died Saturday, April 13, 2013 at his home. Born Saturday, January 11, 1936 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late George Lee and Vera Elizabeth Wright Horn. Ted was a United States Army Veteran serving in the Korean Conflict. He was formerly employed as a heavy equipment operator...

Victoria Mozingo

Victoria Mozingo

Apr 12, 2013

Victoria J. “Vickie” Mozingo, 64, of Newburg, died on the evening of Friday, April 12, 2013, at her home. She was born on April 15, 1948, in Walnut Bottom, a daughter of the late Ray A. and Mildred M. Kline Coy. Vickie then married Mr. Gary L. Mozingo, Sr., on October 30, 1965, at the Prince Street United Brethren Church,...

Betty Helm

Betty Helm

Apr 4, 2013

Betty L. Helm, 57, of Shippensburg, went to be with the Lord surrounded by her loving family in the Chambersburg Hospital on Thursday, April 4, 2013. She was born June 19, 1955 in Shippensburg, Cumberland County. Betty was a daughter of Hazel L. Gilbert Mooney of Shippensburg and the late Floyd L. Mooney. She retired in 2002 from the Beistle...