Obituaries
Recent Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Shippensburg, PA & Surrounding Areas
Mary Stouffer
Dec 26, 2018
Mary A. (Thompson) Stouffer, 74, of Cambra, died Wednesday evening, December 26th, 2018 at Nottingham Village in Northumberland. Born August 11, 1944 in Shippensburg, she was a daughter of the late Thomas G. and Mary A. (Beckenbaugh) Thompson . She was preceded in death by her husband of 40 years, Ronald K. Stouffer, on February 8, 2003. Mrs. Stouffer was...
Joan Covey
Dec 26, 2018
Joan M. Covey, 83, of Walnut Bottom, PA, passed away December 26, 2018 in the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born January 31, 1935. Joan was a daughter of the late Kenneth and Alice Ryberg Covey. She was a self-employed Attorney and was a 1952 graduate of the Springfield High School in Springfield, OH. Joan is survived by a number of...
Randy Sutphin
Dec 23, 2018
Randy E. Sutphin, 73, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Sunday, December 23, 2018, at his home. He was born on July 25, 1945, in Floyd, VA, a son of the late Leonard and Treva Bolt Sutphin and married Betty Jane Hodge on May 5, 1970. Randy worked as a truck driver for several different companies, retiring...
Brenda Mixell
Dec 23, 2018
Brenda Kaye Mixell, 69, of Shippensburg, passed away Sunday, December 23, 2018 at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center. She was born Sunday, March 27, 1949 in Carlisle, she was a daughter of the late John Michael and Esther Belle Hurley Singer. Brenda was a 1967 graduate of the Shippensburg High School. She was a very active member of the...
John Seibert
Dec 23, 2018
John F. “Pete” Seibert, Jr., 88, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Sunday, December 23, 2018. He was born on January 13, 1930, in Dry Run, a son of the late John F. and Margaret B. Price Seibert, Sr. and married Eleanor A. Diehl on February 16, 1952 in Hagerstown, MD. John worked as a plant operator...
Robert Mitchell
Dec 23, 2018
Robert D. Mitchell, 91, of Shippensburg, passed away Sunday, December 23, 2018 in the Church of God Home, Carlisle. He was born August 20, 1927 in Newburg, PA. Robert was a son of the late Samuel F. and Mildred G. Basehore Mitchell. He was a member of the Trinity United Methodist Church in Walnut Bottom. In 1941 Robert started working...

Berneta Mcmullen
Dec 22, 2018
Berneta May McMullen, 64, of Shippensburg, passed away Saturday, December 22, 2018 at the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born Monday, May 10, 1954 in Chambersburg, a daughter of the late Glenn A. and Mary D. Forrester Diehl, Sr. Berneta was a 1972 graduate of the Shippensburg Area Senior High School. She retired from the Mechanicsburg Naval Depot where she worked...
Earl Shenk
Dec 21, 2018
Earl E. Shenk, 76, of Newburg, passed away Friday, December 21, 2018 at home. He was born June 25, 1942 in Carlisle. Earl was a son of the late Cloyd A. and Dorothy E. Jacoby Shenk. Earl retired from the PA Department of General Services. He was a member of the Zion United Church of Christ, Newburg and Mt. Hope...
William Rees
Dec 21, 2018
William M. “Rocky” Rees, 69, of Shippensburg, passed away Friday, December 21, 2018 at home. He was born June 9, 1949 in Newark, NJ. Rocky was a son of the late Edward and Marion Price Rees. He was a member of the Our Lady of the Visitation Catholic Church, Shippensburg. A native of Morristown, NJ, Rees was a 1967 graduate...

Lawrence Beckfield
Dec 17, 2018
Lawrence W. “Larry” Beckfield, 72, of Shippensburg, passed away on Monday, December 17, 2018 at the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born Thursday, September 26, 1946, in Johnson County, Indiana. He was a son of the late William John and Betty Louise Hostetter Beckfield. Larry worked as an Electrician for the Local Union # 143, Harrisburg. He was a United States...
Robert Ehrhart
Dec 16, 2018
Robert Orion Ehrhart, 90, of Orrstown, went to be with his Lord on Sunday morning December 16, 2018. He was born Wednesday, August 22, 1928, in Saint Thomas, a son of the late George L. and Vallie Snurr Ehrhart. Robert attended the Chambersburg High School with the class of 1946. He worked at Knouse Foods with four years of service....
R. Paul Tosten
Dec 16, 2018
R. Paul Tosten, 93, of Shippensburg, passed away Sunday, December 16, 2018 in Elmcroft. He was born December 3, 1925 in Bloserville, PA. Paul was a son of the late Russell W. and Maude Halter Tosten. He was a dairy farmer all his life on the Ridge Road from 1947-1991. Paul also worked part-time in the orchards trimming trees in...
Ralph Harre
Dec 15, 2018
Ralph E. Harre, Jr., 86, of Shippensburg, passed away Saturday, December 15, 2018 in the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born October 18, 1932 in Everett, PA. Ralph was a son of the late Ralph E., Sr. and Stella Ritchey Harre. He retired from Sprint’s Chambersburg office with over 38 years of service. Ralph was a member of the Shippensburg Church...
Irene Hockenberry
Dec 14, 2018
Irene Mae Culbertson Hockenberry, 88 years old, of Newburg Road, Newburg, PA was carried on angels’ wings to her Heavenly home early Friday morning, December 14, 2018, after suffering a stroke in October 2017. Irene was born on September 6th, 1930 to Pirl David “PD” Culbertson and Lula Marie Bistline Culbertson. She was happily married to Clair Austin Hockenberry and...
Esther Kelley
Dec 13, 2018
Esther E. Kelley, 84, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Thursday, December 13, 2018, at the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born on December 2, 1934, in Newville, a daughter of the late Archie J. and Ida A. Jumper Doyle and married Paul J. Kelley on October 10, 1954, in Hagerstown, MD. Esther was a homemaker throughout her...
Kenneth Smith
Dec 12, 2018
Kenneth G. Smith, 81, of Shippensburg, passed away Wednesday, December 12, 2018 in the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born May 1, 1937 in Waynesboro, PA. Ken was a son of the late Harvey G. and Bertha L. Scott Smith. He worked for McCune Lumber in Shippensburg for over 20 years and then retired from Moore’s Lumber Yard in Chambersburg. Ken...
David Varner
Dec 7, 2018
David L. Varner, 78, of Shippensburg, passed away peacefully on Friday, December 7, 2018 at Geisinger Holy Spirit Hospital, Camp Hill, surrounded by his loving family. Born Thursday, January 18, 1940 in Walnut Bottom, he was a son of the late Beattie Christopher and Almeda Jane Zinn Varner. David was a graduate of Big Spring High School. He served in...
William Russell
Dec 4, 2018
William H. Russell, 89, of Shippensburg, was peacefully taken to be in the arms of his Heavenly Father on Tuesday, December 4, 2018. A devoted and loving husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, he is survived by his wife of thirty-six wonderful years, Marty Lehman Russell, who cherished and cared for him with everything she had. Also surviving are his two...
Patricia Pugh
Dec 1, 2018
Patricia Kay “Patty” Pugh, 64, of Menno Haven at Brookview Skilled Care, Chambersburg, PA, formerly of Orrstown, PA, passed away Saturday, December 1, 2018. Born November 10, 1954 in Chambersburg, PA, she was the daughter of the late Andrew Richard and Sara Bert Pugh. She was a member of the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Orrstown. As a special needs...

John Mcbride
Nov 30, 2018
John McBride, 46, of Orrstown, Pa., died Friday, November 30, 2018, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia with his beloved fiancé, Lynne Booth, at his side. John, the fifth of six children, was born in San Pedro, Calif., on March 1, 1972, to the late Mary Rose (Fleckenstein) McBride of Baltimore, Md., and Francis L. McBride,...