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Mark Piper
May 16, 2010
Mark A. Piper, 39, of Newburg, died Sunday, May 16, 2010 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born April 1, 1971 in Chambersburg, he was a son of Betty J. Henry Piper of Newburg and the late Ellis A. “Jake” Piper who died November 24, 2000. Mark was a 1989 graduate of Wordsworth Academy in Philadelphia. In his early years Mark attended...
Gladys Ritter
May 15, 2010
Gladys V. Ritter 1926 ~ 2010 Gladys V. Ritter, age 83, of Chambersburg, passed away May 15, 2010 at the Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was born October 16, 1926, in New Franklin, PA., to Louis and Martha (Calimer) Ritter. She was married to Jay O. Baer, who preceded her in death. She attended the Greenvillage Church of...
Eber Ott
May 15, 2010
Eber G. Ott, 71, of 60 West Main Street, Walnut Bottom died Saturday, May 15, 2010 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born August 19, 1938 in Shippensburg; he was a son of the late Benjamin and Augusta Mae Holtry Ott. He retired from Domestic Pump and years ago worked for the former Cogwell Industries both in Shippensburg. Eber is survived by...
Fred Johnson
May 14, 2010
Fred W. Johnson, 68, of Shippensburg, died on Friday, May 14, 2010 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born in Newville, PA on September 28, 1941 a son of the late George Levi and Marion Weigle Johnson. A 1960 graduate of Shippensburg Area High School. On May 24, 1986, Fred married Ms. Betty Jane Bishop at the First Assembly of God, in...
Leora Negley
May 14, 2010
Leora J. Negley, 73,of 2416 Lindsay Lot Road, Shippensburg, surrounded by her loving family went to be with her Heavenly Father on Friday, May 14, 2010 in the Carlisle Regional Medical Center. Born June 4, 1936 in Bedford Township, Bedford County, Pa, she was a daughter of the late Edward and Lula Stayer Lepley. She retired June 8, 1999 from...
Catherine Nolt
May 14, 2010
Catherine R. Nolt, 14 of 34 Clugston Road, Newville, died Friday, May 14, 2010 at home. Born July 15, 1995 in North Newton Township, Cumberland County; she was a daughter of Warren M. and Grace B. Ramer Nolt of Newville. She attended the Shippensburg Old Order Mennonite Church. In addition to her parents Catherine is survived by one sister Ella...
Gabriel Gosnell
May 12, 2010
Gabriel Allen Gosnell, 26 weeks gestation, died on May 12, 2010, at the Chambersburg Hospital. He is survived by his mother and father, Gretta Renea Robinson Martin and Keith Allen Gosnell; one brother, Austin Keller; one sister, Alyssa Gosnell; fraternal grandparents, Gloria and James Gosnell of York; maternal grandparents, Debra Martin of Denver, CO, and George Robinson, Jr. of Shippensburg,...
Ronald Hutchinson
May 11, 2010
Ronald E. Hutchinson, 70, of Pleasant Hall, died on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at his home, with his family by his side. Born on July 12, 1939 in Chambersburg, a son of the late Paul C. and Annabel Varner Hutchinson. Earlier in life, Ronald was employed as a guard, at the Cumberland County Prison, retired from the Scotland School for...
Glenn Householder
May 7, 2010
Glenn Russell Householder, 67 of Shippensburg died Friday, May 7, 2010 in his home. He is survived by his wife Carol, a daughter Angela (Timothy) Bard, and a grandson, Timothy, Jr. Private services will be held in the Spring Hill Cemetery. Arrangements are being handled by the Fogelsanger-Bricker Funeral Home Inc., Shippensburg.
Arlene Roddick
May 6, 2010
Arlene Witmer Roddick of Shippensburg died Thursday, May 6, 2010 at the Manor Care Nursing Home in Chambersburg. Born February 24, 1914 in Millersburg, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of the late Elmer and Helen Witmer who owned and operated a dairy farm. In 1934, she graduated from a two-year course at what was then Shippensburg State Teachers College and...
Louise Powell
Apr 30, 2010
Louise G. Powell, 82, of Orrstown, died on Friday, April 30, 2010 with her family by her side. Born on February 10, 1928, in Macleod, Canada, a daughter of the late Victor and Nellie Diggory Thelin. On December 22, 1958, Louise married Mr. Donald R. Powell. He preceded her in death on December 15, 1993. Louise was a homemaker and...
Gloria Johnson
Apr 28, 2010
Gloria J. Johnson, 70, of Orrstown, died on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born on June 17, 1939, in Huntingdon County, a daughter of the late John and Dora Goshorn Robinson. On September 17, 1958, Gloria married Mr. Clair S. Johnson in Hagerstown, MD. Gloria was a self employed, in home care giver, for the last fifteen...
Juanita Hoover
Apr 26, 2010
Juanita V. Hoover, 72, of Shippensburg, died on Monday, April 26, 2010, at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. Born on May 29, 1937, in Walnut Bottom, a daughter of the late Blain and Alma Kauffman Wyrick. On April 11, 1959, Juanita married Mr. Robert E. Hoover in Hagerstown, MD. He preceded her in death on November 19, 2006. Juanita was a...
Betty Williams
Apr 25, 2010
Betty L. Williams of Camp Hill, passed away on Sunday, April 25, 2010, at Holy Spirit Hospital, just one day after her 79th birthday. Betty was born in Pottstown, PA on April 24, 1931 to the late John Kenneth and Helen (Beltz) Mauger. She graduated from Pottstown High School in 1949 and worked as a soda jerk, then for a...
Betty Rhinehart
Apr 25, 2010
Betty L. Rhinehart, 81, a resident of the Claremont Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Carlisle for over 34 years, formerly of Shippensburg died Sunday, April 25, 2010. Born June 21, 1928 in Shippensburg, PA; she was a daughter of the late George E. and Zora A. Nehf Rhinehart. She was a member of the Prince Street United Brethren Church, Shippensburg. She...
Lonnie Snyder, Sr.
Apr 24, 2010
Lonnie E. Synder, Sr., 63 of 54 Walnut Dale Road, Shippensburg, died Saturday, April 24, 2010 in the M.S. Hershey Medical Center from the result of a traffic accident Thursday morning. Born April 26, 1946 in Chambersburg, Franklin County; he was a son of the late Roland Witmer and Bessie Snyder Mooney. For over 20 years he worked for Charles...
Edna Hoch
Apr 23, 2010
Edna V. Hoch, 87, of 4574 McClays Mill Road, Shippensburg went to be with the Lord Friday, April 23, 2010 in the Shippensburg Health Care Center. Born September 6, 1922 in Shippensburg, Cumberland County; she was a daughter of the late William H. and Curvey Myers Holtry. She was a member of the Ridge Church of the Brethren, Shippensburg and...
Dorothy Helman
Apr 22, 2010
Dorothy M. Helman, 83, a resident at Providence Place and formerly of 122 Willow Drive, Shippensburg, died Thursday, April 22, 2010 in the home. Born August 28, 1926 in Greene Township, Franklin County, she was a daughter of the late Lawrence E. and Mary Rebecca Gontz Mooney. Dorothy retired in 1981 from Letterkenny Army Depot as a Systems analyst. She...
Ralph Gontz, Sr.
Apr 21, 2010
Ralph R. Gontz, Sr., 79, of Shippensburg, died on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born on December 2, 1930, in Shippensburg, a son of the late Jacob and Alverna Myers Gontz. Ralph was a United States Army veteran, enlisting on March 22, 1950 and honorably discharged on April 1, 1953. Ralph worked at SKF, in Shippensburg, for...
Amos Mclaughlin
Apr 21, 2010
Amos M. McLaughlin, Jr., 76, of 3897 Orrstown Road, Orrstown, died Wednesday, April 21, 2010 in his home. Born December 16, 1933 in Chambersburg, Franklin County; he was a son of the late Amos M., Sr. and Mary Hinkle McLaughlin. He retired from the Letterkenny Army Depot, Chambersburg and was an Auctioneer with Hershey’s Auctioneering in Shippensburg for over 32...
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