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Betty Miller
May 14, 2013
Betty L. Miller, 85, of Shippensburg, died Tuesday, May 14, 2013 in the Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was born June 23, 1927 in Newville, Cumberland County. Betty was a daughter of the late Irwin and Pearl Neff Helman. She was a member of Shippensburg First Wesleyan Church. Betty retired from the Housekeeping Department at the Beistle Company...
Mabel Baer
May 14, 2013
Mabel C. Baer, 94, of Newburg, died Tuesday, May 14, 2013 in the Episcopal Home, Shippensburg. Born Sunday, September 15, 1918 in Roxbury, she was the daughter of the late John and Mary Catherine Mackey Stamey. Mabel was a member of the Upper Strasburg Church of God where she loved to volunteer. She enjoyed spending time with her family especially...
Betty Beckenbaugh
May 13, 2013
Betty L. Beckenbaugh, 82, of Shippensburg, died Monday, May 13, 2013 in the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born June 27, 1930 in Shippensburg, Franklin County. Betty was a daughter of the late Robert E. and Pauline E. Green Bard. She was a member of Messiah United Methodist Church in Shippensburg, a member of the Good Samaritan Sunday School Class and...
Gladys Hershey
May 10, 2013
Gladys M. Hershey, 76, a resident of the Shippensburg Health Care Center, died on the afternoon of Friday, May 10, 2013, at the Health Care Center. She was born on November 28, 1936, in Newburg, a daughter of the late George and Ruth Rhoads Yohe. Gladys was employed by the former Hoffman Mills Co., as a Machine Operator, retiring in...
Vesta Bear
May 10, 2013
Vesta P. Bear, 84, of Newville, died on the evening of Friday, May 10, 2013, at the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born on December 20, 1928, in Newville, daughter of the late Carl and Ethel Miller Thomas. Vesta was a homemaker throughout her life. She is survived by a son, Paul Miller of Newville; two daughters, Sandra K. Killian of...
Bettie Somers
May 10, 2013
Bettie J. Somers, 86, a resident of the Shippensburg Health Care Center, died on the evening of Friday, May 10, 2013, at the Health Care Center. She was born on September 8, 1926, in Allensville, PA, the daughter of the late Otto O. and Lillian Bordell Priem, but was raised by her grandparents, Wayne and Esther Bordell. Bettie was a...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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