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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...
Larry Mitchell
Jan 15, 2019
Larry E. Mitchell, 70, of Shippensburg, passed away Tuesday, January 15, 2019 in the Chambersburg Hospital, with his loving family by his side. He was born Friday, April 9, 1948 in Newburg, PA. Larry was a son of the late Lawrence F. and Esther E. Rolar Mitchell. Larry retired in 2008 from the Letterkenny Army Depot, Chambersburg. He was a...
Janell Love
Jan 12, 2019
Janell K. Love, 92, of Shippensburg, passed away Saturday, January 12, 2019 at Green Ridge Village, Newville. She was born June 27, 1926 in Lemasters, PA. Janell was a daughter of the late Rev. Dale E. and C. Mae Decker Kline. She was a member of the Prince Street United Brethren Church, Shippensburg. Janell retired from Shippensburg University. She was...
Chris Sherrerd
Jan 12, 2019
Chris S. Sherrerd, 89, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Saturday, January 12, 2019, at Brookview Menno Haven, Chambersburg. He was born on June 16, 1929, in Clinton, NJ, a son of the late John and Gertrude Sherrerd and married Sarada P. Haines on November 12, 2005, in Elizabethville, PA. Chris worked as an engineer in the...
Gerald Young
Jan 11, 2019
Gerald A “Jerry” Young, 84, of Newburg, passed peacefully with his family by his side, on the evening of Friday, January 11, 2019, at the Carlisle Regional Medical Center. He was born on December 10, 1934, in Englishtown, NJ, a son of the late Albert and Iris Griggs Young and married Diane M. Matyis on June 27, 1992, in Cranbury,...
Paul Piper
Jan 8, 2019
Paul E. Piper, Sr., 80, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the afternoon of Tuesday, January 8, 2019, at his home. He was born on June 22, 1938, in Shippensburg, the son of the late Paul W. and Violet L. Diebert Piper. He married Katherine R. Fontana on March 11, 1970 in Rome, NY. Paul was a U.S. Air Force...
Kathleen Sands
Jan 2, 2019
Kathleen (Kathy) Walton Sands, 66, of Shippensburg, Pa (previously of Bird-in-Hand, Pa and Burlington NJ) passed away on January 2, 2019 at home, after a long and courageous battle with ovarian cancer and its complications. She was born August 10, 1952in Mt. Holly, NJ to the late Clarence K. and Isabel C. Walton of Burlington, NJ and later of Shippensburg,...
Maryjean Williams
Dec 30, 2018
Maryjean R. Williams, 81, of Roxbury was beloved by her family and friends, passed away peacefully on Sunday, December 30, 2018. Please join in a celebration of her life at the Fogelsanger-Bricker Funeral Home & Crematorium, Shippensburg on Saturday, January 5, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. Burial will be in St. Peters Church Cemetery, Landisburg immediately following the service. A viewing...
Ruth Kreger
Dec 29, 2018
OBITUARY FOR RUTH KREGER (June 25, 1927 – December 29, 2018) On December 29, 2018, Ruth Kreger (nee Mase), of Chambersburg, PA passed away at the age of 91. Ruth was born in Liberty, PA where she grew up, one of five children, on a dairy farm run by her widowed mother, and where she learned the value of hard...
Frances Hayes
Dec 26, 2018
Frances Edith Hayes, 86, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the afternoon of Wednesday, December 26, 2018. She was born on February 28, 1932, in Shippensburg, a daughter of the late George and Frances Murphy Wolf and married Harvey Hayes on October 9, 1952. He preceded her in death in 1978. Frances worked for Hallmark, where she would travel to...
Ronald Rowles
Dec 26, 2018
Ronald G. Rowles, 75, a resident of Menno-Haven, Chambersburg, passed away Wednesday, December 26, 2018. He was born Saturday, August 14, 1943 in Lurgan, PA. Ronald was a son of the late Raymond and Clara Stake Rowles. He was a member of the Mowersville Brethren in Christ Church. Ronald retired from James River Corporation, Chambersburg and was a United States...
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