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Lester Whitmer
Aug 9, 2012
Lester J. Whitmer, 91, formerly of 155 Whitmer Road, Shippensburg, died Thursday, August 9, 2012 at 12:55 p.m. in the Shippensburg Health Care Center, where he had been a resident since December 2003. Born October 22, 1920 in Southampton Township, Cumberland County, he was a son of the late John B. and Margaret Hippensteel Whitmer. Early in life he worked...
Charles Stine
Aug 8, 2012
Charles W. Stine, 87, of Shippensburg, died on the morning of Wednesday, August 8, 2012, at the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born on May 5, 1925, in Shippensburg, a son of the late Blain W. and Elsie Russell Stine. Charles served in the U.S. Army from July 2, 1943 to January 19, 1946. He was in the field artillery and...
Margaret Warren
Aug 7, 2012
Margaret “Peg” Etter Warren, 82, of Shippensburg, went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, August 7, 2012 at Thornwald Home, Carlisle. Born Wednesday, April 23, 1930 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Andrew Etter and Ruth Hoover Etter Mowery Perry. Peg attended the Shippensburg Area Senior High School. She was employed at the Shippensburg University...
Mary Fogelsanger
Aug 6, 2012
Mary Elizabeth Fogelsanger, 92, of Shippensburg, died Monday, August 6, 2012 in Menno Haven, Chambersburg. Born Tuesday, November 25, 1919 in Southampton Township, Franklin County, she was a daughter of the late James Garfield and Lilly M. Wagner Watson. Mary was a 1936 graduate of the Shippensburg Area Senior High School. She received a teaching degree from Shippensburg State Teachers...
Margaret Tritt
Aug 5, 2012
Margaret E. “ Marge “ Tritt, 70, of Upper Horse Valley Road, Upper Strasburg, died Sunday, August 5, 2012 at her home. Born Wednesday, December 31, 1941 in Adams County, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of the late William F. Sr., and Grace E. Holtry Washinger. Marge was a graduate of the Shippensburg Area Senior High School, a member of...
Nellie Draper
Aug 3, 2012
Nellie Mae (Holtry) Draper, 74, of Crossville, TN, formerly of Shippensburg; daughter of the late Eber J. and Pearl V. (Hollenbaugh) Holtry, Sr., died on Thursday, August 2, 2012. Her funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 9, 2012, at the Fogelsanger-Bricker Funeral Home, Shippensburg. Interment will follow in the Ridge Cemetery. Visitation will be one...
Genevieve Wood
Aug 3, 2012
Genevieve Marie Wood, 87, a resident of the Quincy Home, formerly of Upper Strasburg, died on the morning of Friday, August 3, 2012. She was born on November 20, 1924, in Binghamton, NY, the daughter of the late Ervin H. and Ina L. Banker Ferris, where she graduated from high school. Genevieve married Frederick A. Wood in Binghamton. She became...
Cathy Sheele
Aug 1, 2012
Cathy M. Sheele, 57, of Newburg, died on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 1, 2012, at the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born on July 1, 1955, in Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., the daughter of the late Clarence and Catherine Minerd Myers, Sr. Cathy was a homemaker throughout her life. She attended the Ridge Church of the Brethren, and was a...
Leila Beckenbaugh
Aug 1, 2012
Leila R. Beckenbaugh, 99, of Shippensburg, died on the evening of Wednesday, August 1, 2012, at the Shook Home, Chambersburg. She was born on April 10, 1913, in Shippensburg, the daughter of the late Merle and Myrtle Swartz Haulter. On September 19, 1931, Leila married Mr. Earl R. Beckenbaugh in Shippensburg. She then became a homemaker as they started their...
Bryce Connelly
Jul 29, 2012
Bryce Anthony Connelly, Shippensburg, infant son of John A. and Melody A. Hayslett Connelly died Sunday, July 29, 2012 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Services and burial will be private.
Evelyn Byers
Jul 27, 2012
Evelyn L. Byers, 85 of Three Square Hollow Road, Newburg, died Friday, July 27, 2012 at her home. Born Tuesday, August 24, 1926 in Newburg, Hopewell Township, she was a daughter of the late John and Annie Grace Mackey Singer. Evelyn was a member of the Green Spring First Church of God, Newburg, and their Bible study group, Senior Life...
Carl Bittinger
Jul 19, 2012
Carl E. “Shorty” Bittinger, 79, of Shippensburg, died on the evening of Thursday, July 19, 2012 at the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born on September 2, 1932, in Newville, a son of the late Gladys Rebecca Bittinger. Carl was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War, enlisting on April 6, 1951 and honorably discharged on April 8, 1954. Upon...
Edith Zullinger
Jul 17, 2012
Edith C. Zullinger, 93, formerly of Shippensburg, died Tuesday, July 17, 2012 in Magnolias of Chambersburg. Born February 25, 1919 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Robert D. and Sarah Morrison McCleary. Edith and her late husband were dairy farmers. She enjoyed sewing, quilting and gardening. In addition to her parents Edith was preceded in death by...
Eldon Weaver
Jul 17, 2012
Eldon Michael Weaver, 5, of Shippensburg, died on the morning of Tuesday, July 17, 2012, at his home with his family by his side. He was born on September 13, 2006, in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, a son of Ammon L. and Erma H. (Newswanger) Weaver. In addition to his parents, Eldon is survived by two brothers, Dale L. and Ryan...
Rev. Charles Duffy
Jul 14, 2012
Rev. Charles H. Duffy, 81, of Newburg, went to be with the Lord on the evening of Saturday, July 14, 2012. He was born on June 16, 1931, in Mt. Union, PA, the only child of the late Charley and Lottie Pearl Kramer Duffy. Charles was a U.S. Navy Veteran of the Korean War, enlisting on August 24, 1951 and...
Vera Swartz
Jul 14, 2012
Vera B. Swartz, 88, of Newburg, died Saturday, July 14, 2012 in the Shippensburg Health Care Center. Born August 25, 1923 in Lurgan Township, Franklin County, she was a daughter of the late Arthur A. and Nellie C. Stouffer Brenize. Vera was a member of the Newburg First Church of God, a member of the Eveready Sunday school class, a...
Mildred Neidigh
Jul 14, 2012
Mildred L. Neidigh, 73, of Shippensburg, died on Saturday, July 14, 2012, at her home. She is survived by two sisters, Pearl Ditmer of Carlisle and Irene Fry of Shermansdale; preceded in death by four brothers; Charles, Lester, Samuel, and Gordon Neidigh, and two sisters, Edna Rife and Cora Bonewitz. Mildred’s funeral services and interment will be private. The Fogelsanger-Bricker...
Edna Horst
Jul 13, 2012
Edna W. Horst, 79, of 118 Mountain View Road, Shippensburg, died Friday, July 13, 2012, at her home. Born December 27, 1932, in Ephrata, Lancaster County, she was a daughter of the late Titus W. and Katie S. Weaver Zimmerman. She is survived by four daughters: Florence Z. Horst of Shippensburg, Marian Z. Nolt and her husband Edward of Liberty,...
Helen Bosserman
Jul 12, 2012
Helen Booz Bosserman, 86, of Sebring, FL, formerly of Shippensburg, died Thursday, July 12, 2012 in Sebring. Born August 24, 1925 in Springfield, Cumberland County, she was a daughter of the late Harry and Bertha Smith McElwee. She was a member of the Shippensburg Church of the Brethren and the Sebring Church of the Brethren in Florida. Helen was a...
Anna Lapp
Jul 12, 2012
Anna Louise Lapp, 33, of Newburg, died Thursday, July 12, 2012 at York Hospital. Born July 17, 1978 in Gettysburg, she was a daughter of Israel Z. and Eva M. Kauffman Stoltzfus of Orrstown. In addition to her parents she is survived by her husband, Wilmer J. Lapp, four children, Eva Jane, Henry, LeAnna, and Lavina Lapp all at home,...
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