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Elizabeth Higgins
Aug 21, 2018
Elizabeth B. “Betty-Dodah” Higgins, 87, of Chambersburg, passed away on Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at Chambers Pointe (Penn Hall), Chambersburg. Born Thursday, January 29, 1931 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late John E. and Catherine M. Ward Brookens. Betty was a graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School. She was a member of St. Luke Evangelical...
Vicki Mentzer
Aug 21, 2018
Vicki I. Mentzer, 66, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the evening of Tuesday, August 21, 2018. She was born on December 6, 1951, in Chambersburg, a daughter of Ruth V. Rhoades Miller and the late Walter L. Miller. Vicki was a homemaker throughout her life. She was a devoted mother and grandmother and enjoyed spending time with her family....
Thomas Ginnick
Aug 19, 2018
Thomas L. Ginnick, 70, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Sunday, August 19, 2018, at his home. He was born on January 30, 1948, in Chambersburg, the son of the late Charles C. and Dolores J. Reese Ginnick and was a 1965 graduate of Shippensburg High School. Although he was drafted to play baseball for the St....
Helen Aby
Aug 15, 2018
Helen D. Aby, 90, of Shippensburg, passed away Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at Claremont Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Carlisle. Born Wednesday, June 6, 1928 in Carlisle, she was a daughter of the late Samuel and Mary Bittinger Hawkins. She was a member of the Huntsdale Church of the Brethren, where she served as Deacon, taught Sunday School, and was on...
Michael Stine
Aug 11, 2018
Pastor Michael Lee Stine, 38, formerly of Shippensburg, late of Williamsport, MD, departed this life on the morning of Saturday, August 11, 2018, at his home. He was born on November 22, 1979, in Chambersburg, a son of Barry Lee and Patricia Ann Shives Stine, who reside in Shippensburg. Michael earned a Bachelor’s degree from Lancaster Bible College, in Bible...
Timothy Marpoe
Aug 8, 2018
Timothy D. Marpoe, Jr., 26, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 8, 2018, at the M.S. Hershey Medical Center. He was born on November 12, 1991, in Carlisle, the son of Timothy D. Marpoe, Sr., and Michelle Mowery. Timothy was a 2010 graduate of Shippensburg Area High School. He enjoyed fishing, nature walks, art, and...
Sarah Martin
Aug 7, 2018
Sarah J. Martin, 96, of Chambersburg, passed away on Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at Menno Haven in Chambersburg. Born Friday, July 28, 1922 in Southampton Township, Cumberland County, she was a daughter of the late Raymond H. and Harriet J. Hutchison Rebuck. Sarah was a member of the Prince Street United Brethren Church, Shippensburg. She retired in 1984 from the...
Vonnie Eckenrode
Aug 6, 2018
Vonnie J. Eckenrode, 74, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Monday, August 6, 2018, at the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born on February 11, 1944, in Shippensburg, a daughter of the late Charles Melvin and Daisy M. Coffey Holtry and was a 1961 graduate of Shippensburg High School. Vonnie worked as a purchasing agent at the Letterkenny...
Max Higgins
Aug 6, 2018
Max R. Higgins, 80, of Chambersburg, passed away on Monday, August 6, 2018 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Thursday, April 21, 1938 in Williamsport, MD., he was a son of the late David Martin and Susan Hanson Higgins. Max attended St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church, Chambersburg. He retired from American Stair & Cabinetry as a carpenter. Max loved hunting, butchering,...
Donald Deck
Aug 4, 2018
Donald D. Deck, 74, of Alamogordo, NM, departed this world on August 4, 2018. He was born on March 23, 1944, in Cumberland County, PA, a son of the late Robert C. & Fannie E. Durf Deck. Don attended the Big Spring High School, Newville, and enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1961. He made his career in...
Ronald Appleby
Aug 2, 2018
Ronald Lee Appleby, 78, of Shippensburg, Passed away peacefully on Thursday, August 2, 2018 at his home surrounded by his loving family. Born Wednesday, December 6, 1939 in Mongul, Franklin County, he was a son of the late Raymond Blaine and Rosie M. Varner Appleby. He was a 1958 graduate of the Shippensburg Area Senior High School. He was a...
Vonnie Helman
Jul 31, 2018
Vonnie M. Ile Helman, 81, of Newburg, departed this life on the evening of Tuesday, July 31, 2018, at the Falling Spring Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. She was born on July 21, 1937, in Mowersville, a daughter of the late Philip A. and Mamie R. O’Donnell Ile. Vonnie was a 1956 graduate of Chambersburg High School and married Charles A....
Florence Asper
Jul 29, 2018
Florence G. Asper, 98, departed this life on the evening of Sunday, July 29, 2018, in Salina, KS. She was born on January 24, 1920, in Newburg, PA, a daughter of the late Luther and Margaret Shoffner Finkey. Florence worked at the former Valley Baking Store, Shippensburg, for forty-five years, retiring in 1984, as a cake decorator. She was a...
Karen Rotz
Jul 24, 2018
Karen F. Rotz, 71, of Dry Run, departed this life on the morning of Tuesday, July 24, 2018, at the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born in New Germantown, the daughter of the late Robert and Vera O’Donel Robinson and married George S. Rotz on March 12, 1967, in Chambersburg. Karen worked as an accountant for the former James River Co.,...
Ralph Dewalt
Jul 21, 2018
Ralph A. DeWalt, 82, of Orrstown, passed away Saturday, July 21, 2018 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Sunday, February 16, 1936 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Ralph S. and Edith A. Gifford DeWalt. Ralph was a member of the Lurgan United Brethren Church, and attended the Ebenezer United Brethren Church in Greencastle. He was the owner...
Lawrence Caution
Jul 14, 2018
Lawrence H. Caution, 67, of Chambersburg, departed this life on Saturday, July 14, 2018, at the Chambersburg Hospital. His funeral services, entrusted to the Fogelsanger-Bricker Funeral Home & Crematorium, Inc., Shippensburg, will be private. There will be no public viewing or visitation. Online condolences may be expressed at www.fogelsanger-brickerfuneralhome.com.
John Roddick
Jul 14, 2018
Jack Roddick, 97, died in Shippensburg on July 14, 2018. Jack began his amazing life on May 2, 1921 in Baltimore and then was raised on the family farm near Newville, PA. After serving in the Army Air Corps, he graduated from Shippensburg State Teachers College in 1947. Jack taught and coached at Swatara High School where he met his...
Homer Kissick
Jul 14, 2018
Homer N. Kissick, age 84, of Hillsboro, passed away Saturday, July 14, 2018, at his daughter’s residence in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, after a brave battle with cancer. Born October 7, 1933, in Hillsboro, he was a son of the late Henry Newton and Nannie Ezetta Spence Kissick. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Carl...
Lori Leitzel
Jul 11, 2018
Lori Ann Leitzel, 52, of Newburg, passed away peacefully at her home on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 surrounded by her loving family. Born Friday, October 1, 1965 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late James B. and Virginia M. Gettel Bock. Lori was of the United Brethren Faith. She was a 1983 graduate of the Shippensburg Area Senior...
Paul Detweiler
Jul 9, 2018
Paul F. Detweiler, 88, of Chambersburg, departed this life on the evening of Monday, July 9, 2018, at his home. He was born on May 19, 1930, in Lansdale, a son of the late Howard and Katie Freed Detweiler and married Dorothy Greaser on September 7, 1952, in Quakertown. Paul worked the family farm in Newville, in dairy production and...
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