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Donald Grove
Sep 25, 2012
Donald E. Grove, 75 of Shippensburg, died Tuesday, September 25, 2012 in Manor Care, Carlisle. Born Monday, October 12, 1936 in Letterkenny Township, Franklin County, he was a son of the late Roy E. and Ruth C. Hull Grove. Donald was a 1954 graduate of the Shippensburg Senior Area High School. He was employed by the former Fickes Silo’s in...
John Diehl
Sep 22, 2012
John C. Diehl, 84, of Roxbury Road, Shippensburg, died Saturday, September 22, 2012 in the Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Chambersburg Born June 9, 1928 in Shippensburg, Franklin County, he was a son of the late Samuel W. and Velva Commerer Diehl. John was a member of Memorial Lutheran Church in Shippensburg. He was a lifetime livestock dealer and...
Mary Thaler
Sep 18, 2012
Mary Lou Hancock Thaler, 73, of Pine Stump Road, Chambersburg, died Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at her home. Born Friday, October 21, 1938 in Shippensburg, she was a daughter of the late Harper and Lena Warren Hancock. Mary Lou was a 1957 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School. She attended the Green Village First Church of God. Mary...
Judith Spidle
Sep 14, 2012
Judith Elizabeth Spidle, 66, of Shippensburg, died on the morning of Friday, September 14, 2012, at the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born on August 1, 1946, in Newburg, the daughter of the late Bruce and Helen Mowery Dunlap. On March 25, 1967, Judith married Mr. Frank A. Spidle at the Newburg First Church of God. Over the years, Judith was...
Violet Meily
Sep 13, 2012
Violet L. Meily, 92, a resident of Forest Park Health Center, Carlisle, formerly of West Main Street, Walnut Bottom, died Thursday, September 13, 2012 in the Center. Born February 24, 1920 in Shade Gap, Huntingdon County, she was a daughter of the late Cambridge and Myrtle Locke Snyder. Years ago Violet was a member of Prince Street United Brethren Church...
Charles Scheaffer
Sep 13, 2012
Charles J. Scheaffer, Jr., 82, a resident of the Hollidaysburg Veterans Home, Hollidaysburg, PA, died on the evening of Thursday, September 13, 2012. He was born on August 19, 1930, in Shippensburg, a son of the late Norman C. and Bertha Scheaffer, Sr. Charles was a U.S. Army Veteran of the Korean War, inducted on July 9, 1952 and honorably...
Wilbur Piper
Sep 10, 2012
Wilbur J. Piper, Jr., 74, of Shippensburg, died Monday, September 10, 2012 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born December 15, 1937 in Newville, Cumberland County, he was a son of the late Wilbur J., Sr. and Tressa E. Earley Piper. Wilbur was a member of the Leesburg United Methodist Church, Shippensburg. He retired from the Big Spring School District where he...
Gary Keefer
Sep 10, 2012
Gary L. Keefer, 60, of Shippensburg, died Monday, September 10, 2012 in the Forest Park Health Center in Carlisle. Born July 23, 1952 in Chambersburg, Franklin County, he was a son of the late Harold L. and Mildred E. Myers Keefer. In addition to his parents, Gary was preceded in death by a brother Harold L. Keefer, Jr. Gary was...
Felix Goodwin
Sep 6, 2012
Felix Harold Goodwin, 20, of Shippensburg, died Thursday, September 6, 2012 in Vineland NJ.Born December 8, 1991 in Van Wert, Juniata County, he was a son of David Conrad and Starla Delp Sollenberger Goodwin. Felix was a member of the Shippensburg Christian Fellowship Church, he was presently employed at Blue Mountain Woodcraft, Shippensburg. In addition to his parents, he is...
Jason Jumper
Sep 6, 2012
Jason Eugene Jumper, 39, of Shippensburg, died Thursday, September 6, 2012 in the Carlisle Regional Medical Center’s emergency room. Born August 14, 1973 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, he was a son of Miley H., Jr. and Kathie L. Showers Jumper of Carlisle. For the last 18 years he was employed at Green Ridge Village, Newville. For the past 12 years...
Deon Branche
Sep 5, 2012
Deon P. Branche, Shippensburg, infant son of Lance P. Branche and Cierra R. Gossert, died September 5, 2012 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Funeral services and burial will be private. Fogelsanger-Bricker Funeral Home Inc. is in charge of the funeral arrangements. Online condolences may be expressed at www.fogelsanger-brickerfuneralhome.com
William Riester
Sep 5, 2012
Surrounded by the presence and loving thoughts of the family he cared for deeply, William C. Riester, Sr., 94, left this world on September 5, 2012. A resident of Green Ridge Village in Newville, William died at the Carlisle Regional Medical Center. Born August 29, 1918 in North Bergen, New Jersey, he was the son of the late George J....
Francis Major
Sep 5, 2012
Francis E. Major, Jr., 87, of Shippensburg, died Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at Elmcroft of Shippensburg. Born April 15, 1925 in Philadelphia, he was a son of the late Francis E., Sr. and Anna Dolphin Major. Francis was a member of Our Lady of the Visitation Catholic Church in Shippensburg. He was a retired printer for the A. Polmerantz Company...
Frank Mackey
Sep 4, 2012
Frank Harrison Mackey, 81, a resident of the Shook Home, Chambersburg, formerly of Horse Valley, Path Valley, and Burnt Cabins, went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 from the home. Born Tuesday, November 18, 1930 in Horse Valley, Franklin County, he was a son of the late Harrison and Jessie C. Newman Mackey. His work...
Joseph Turpin
Sep 3, 2012
Joseph W. Turpin, 64, of Shippensburg, died Monday, September 3, 2012 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born May 1, 1948 in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, he was a son of the late Harry and Grace Wendling Turpin. Joseph is survived by his wife, Sherri Sargeant Turpin, one son, Stephen E. Turpin of Marietta, two daughters, Nicole Witman Short and her husband Tony...
Dorothy Laughlin
Aug 25, 2012
Dorothy M. Laughlin, 90, a resident of the Sarah Todd Memorial Home, formerly of Newburg, died Saturday, August 25, 2012 in the Carlisle Regional Medical Center. Born October 5, 1921 in Shippensburg, Franklin County, she was a daughter of the late John C. and Nannie Rebuck Dunlap. Dorothy was a member of Newburg First Church of God and a member...
Charles Black
Aug 25, 2012
Charles H. Black, 91, of Paxton Run Road, Newburg, died Saturday, August 25, 2012 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Thursday, June 16, 1921 in Three Springs, Huntingdon County, he was a son of the late Harvey Nelson and Ruth Marks Black. Charles was a United States Army Air Force Veteran serving in WWII. He retired from Letterkenny Army Depot as...
Evelyn Beidel-Reed
Aug 25, 2012
Evelyn D. Reed, 86, of Shippensburg, PA, died on the evening of Saturday, August 25, 2012. Evelyn, a life-long resident of Shippensburg, was a retired employee of Shippensburg University, and a member of the Messiah United Methodist Church. She is survived by her husband of 58 years, Samuel L. Reed, Sr.; her daughter, Martha Jane “Peaches” (David) Clayton of Lancaster;...
William Peightel
Aug 23, 2012
William Edgar Peightel, 85, of 517 Franklin Heights, Shippensburg, died August 23, 2012 at his home. Born July 27, 1927 in Huntingdon PA, he was the son of the late Edgar and Grace (Smith) Peightel of Huntingdon. Peightel attended the Huntingdon Public Schools graduating in 1945, and received his Bachelor of Science degree from Juniata College in 1949. He received...
Martha Reed
Aug 22, 2012
Martha I. Reed, 77, of Shippensburg, died Wednesday, August 22, 2012 in the Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born February 1, 1935 in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, she was a daughter of the late John H. and Cora Belle Irene Holtry Baughman. Martha was a retired supervisor at Hoffman Mills and a member of Messiah United Methodist Church both in...
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