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Robert Solder
Feb 17, 2019
Robert John Solder, Sr., 71, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the afternoon of Sunday, February 17, 2019, at the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born on January 9, 1948, in Chambersburg, a son of the late Edward J. and Mary R. Eberly Solder. Robert was U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, enlisting on January 25, 1967 and honorably discharged...
Patricia Diehl
Feb 16, 2019
Patricia L. Diehl, 68, of Carlisle, died Saturday, February 16, 2019 at Penn State Milton Hershey Medical Center. Born Wednesday, May 17, 1950 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of Marie M. Miley Foster of Shippensburg, and the late Robert Wayne Foster. Patricia was a graduate of the Shippensburg High School. She was of the Christian Faith and enjoyed bus...
M. Joan Kann
Feb 14, 2019
M. Joan Kann, 89, a resident of Penn Hall, passed away Thursday, February 14, 2019 in the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born October 3, 1929 in Hanover, PA. Joan was preceded in death by her father, Donald Kann, her mother Genevieve Neff Gettel and her step-father, George Gettel. She was a 1947 graduate of the former Shippensburg High School, a...
Elizabeth Shoap
Feb 13, 2019
Elizabeth F. Shoap, 98, of Chambersburg, passed away Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born Tuesday, September 21, 1920 in Harrisburg, the daughter of the late Edmund Weist Critchley and Frances Livingston Holt Critchley. Elizabeth was a graduate of the Pottstown Area High School. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Shippensburg. Elizabeth was...
Glenda Cramer
Feb 12, 2019
Glenda (Truax) Cramer, 81, of Newburg, passed away peacefully Tuesday afternoon, February 12, 2019 at her home surrounded by her family. Born February 8, 1938 in Burnt Cabins. She was a daughter of the late Charles Lee and Beulah M. Naugle Truax. Glenda was a 1955 graduate of the Forbes High School, Hustontown. She married Carl L. Cramer on February...
Hazel Carbaugh
Feb 7, 2019
Hazel M. Carbaugh, 83, of Upper Strasburg, passed away Thursday, February 7, 2019. She was born April 3, 1935 in Bear Valley, Franklin County. Hazel was a daughter of the late Allan and Rosella Seiler Foore. She was a member of the Newburg First Church of God. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband,...
Wayne Hershey
Feb 7, 2019
Wayne E. Hershey, Sr., 79, lifelong resident of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Thursday, February 7, 2019, at his home surrounded by his family. He was born on March 17, 1939, in Shippensburg, a son of the late John M. and Elva R. Dyarman Hershey, Sr., and was a 1957 graduate of Shippensburg High School. He married...
Annette Harrison
Feb 6, 2019
Annette M. Harrison, 80, a resident of the Shippensburg Health Care Center, passed away Wednesday, February 6, 2019 in the home. She was born November 23, 1937 in West Chester, PA. Annette was a daughter of the late Gerald P. and Sarah M. Thompson Hess. Annette was a Registered Nurse and the owner and operator of Nurses Referral Services in...
Edwin Smith
Feb 6, 2019
Edwin Gary “Smitty” Smith, 72, of Shippensburg, passed away Wednesday, February 6, 2019 in the Carlisle Regional Medical Center. He was born April 14, 1946 in Altoona, PA. Smitty was a son of the late William and Laura M. Smith Clark. He retired from the Pennsylvania State Police where he obtained the rank of Lieutenant. Smitty served at various barracks...
Loren Divelbliss
Feb 5, 2019
Loren E. “Lonnie” Divelbliss, 59, of Mercersburg, departed this life on the afternoon of February 5, 2019, at the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born on August 23, 1959, in Paw Paw, WV, a son of the late William L. and Effie Mae Weller Divelbliss. Lonnie married Mabel Virginia Schriever on September 3, 1986, in Hagerstown, MD. Lonnie worked as a...
Elizabeth Singer
Feb 4, 2019
Elizabeth L. “Betty” Singer, 86, a resident of the Orrstown Personal Care Home formerly of Newville, passed away Monday, February 4, 2019 in the home. She was born July 1, 1932 in Oakville, PA. Betty was a daughter of the late Isaac E. and Emma J. Sites Staver. She was a member of the Oakville United Methodist Church, Shippensburg and...
Patricia Virgens
Feb 3, 2019
Patricia Belle Marshall Virgens, 81, passed away Sunday, February 3, 2019 at Shippensburg Health Care Center in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. Patricia was born March 20, 1937 in Leonardtown, Maryland to Isabel Florence Graves Marshall and Ira Richard Marshall, Sr. of Loveville, Maryland. Patricia moved with her family to Washington, D.C. as a young child and attended school in the Washington, D.C....
Janet Fields
Jan 26, 2019
Janet L. (Singer) Fields, 73, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Saturday, January 26, 2019, at UPMC Pinnacle Carlisle. She was born on October 23, 1945, in Newville, a daughter of the late Clarence and Mary Martin Singer and was a 1963 graduate of Shippensburg High School. Janet married Robert Fields, Sr. on December 12, 1992 at...
Elva Goodhart
Jan 23, 2019
Elva Jane Goodhart, 80 of Shippensburg, passed away Wednesday, January 23, 2019. She was born Friday, June 10, 1938 in Lewistown, PA. Elva Jane was a daughter of the late harry Theodore and Ruth Brock Freed. Elva Jane was a member of the Mainsville Church. She was a past Shippensburg Borough Tax Collector. Elva Jane was a member of the...
Allen Adams
Jan 23, 2019
Allen Joseph Adams, 31, of Shippensburg, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at his home surrounded by his loving family. Born Sunday, January 3, 1988 in Honduras, he was a son of Mary Gayle Wynkoop Adams of Shippensburg. Allen will be sadly missed by his mother and very large at home family. Funeral services and burial will be...
William Porter
Jan 22, 2019
William C. Porter, 73, of Fort Loudon, passed away Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at home. He was born Monday, August 7, 1945 in Philipsburg, PA. William was a son of the late Robert L. and Pearl Petrosky Porter. William was a United States Army Veteran during the Vietnam War. He was a member of the Durff-Kuhn VFW Post #6168, Shippensburg,...
Marjorie Johnson
Jan 21, 2019
Marjorie A. “Sis” Johnson, 93 of Orrstown, passed away Monday, January 21, 2019 in the Chambersburg Hospital surrounded by her loving family. She was born February 12, 1925 in Odell, Illinois. Marjorie was a daughter of the late Wilbur and Edna Smith Bolen. Marjorie is survived by five children, Shirley L. (Robert) Felmlee, Donald A. (Sharon) Johnson, Joanne (Daniel) Timmons,...
David Stump
Jan 21, 2019
David Lee Stump, 79, of Newburg, passed away on the morning of Monday, January 21, 2019 at his home, surrounded by his loving family. Born Monday, December 25, 1939 in Dillsburg, he was a son of the late Delma L. and Barbara Clepper Stump. He was a United States Army Veteran serving during the Vietnam War. He was a lifelong...
Dorothy Jacobs
Jan 19, 2019
Dorothy (Righter) Woomer Jacobs, of York, died on Saturday, January 19, 2019, at 10:52 p.m., in Belleview, PA. Born on December 18, 1923, in Burnham, PA, she was the daughter of the late Fred Bruce and Bernice (Moyer) Righter. Her first husband, Dr. Kendall K. Woomer, died May 18, 1963, and her second husband, Dr. Harry G. Jacobs, died September...
Harry Osbaugh
Jan 17, 2019
Harry Osbaugh, Jr., 95, of Newburg, passed away on Thursday, January 17, 2019 at the Claremont Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Carlisle, PA. Born Saturday, September 15, 1923 in Williamson, Franklin County. He was a son of the late Harry C. and Catherine Commerer Osbaugh, Sr. Harry was a 1941 graduate of the St. Thomas High School. He was a member...
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