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Treva Reiner
Nov 18, 2018
Treva Romaine Reiner, 83, of Shippensburg, passed away on Sunday, November 18, 2018 at her son’s home in Shippensburg. Born Sunday, July 14, 1935 in Shippensburg, Franklin County, she was a daughter of the late Ralph L. and Lodema Mae Green Flory, Sr. Treva retired from the Chambersburg Hospital Housekeeping Department. She enjoyed social activities at the Shippen House. Treva...
Phares Nolt
Nov 16, 2018
Phares W. Nolt, 85, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the afternoon of Friday, November 16, 2018, at the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born on October 19, 1933, in Blue Ball, PA, Lancaster Co., a son of the late Adam and Ida Witmer Nolt and married Anna Mae Zimmerman on January 11, 1955, in Denver, PA. Phares worked as a...
Betty Binner
Nov 15, 2018
Betty Jeane Binner, 93, lifelong resident of Shippensburg, departed this life on the evening of Thursday, November 15, 2018, at her home. She was born on April 9, 1925, in Shippensburg, a daughter of the late Paul D. and Kathryn B. Burkholder Mentzer and was a 1943 graduate of Shippensburg High School. She married Howard J. Binner in 1945, in...
Elizabeth Kaufmann
Nov 11, 2018
Elizabeth R. Kaufmann, 60, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Sunday, November 11, 2018. She was born on September 5, 1958, in Salisbury, MD, a daughter of the late Dr. Frank and Helen Smith and married Donald Kaufmann on May 15, 1993, in Bristol, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth worked as a purchasing agent and supervisor at the former Dial...
Rita Fox
Nov 8, 2018
Rita J. Fox, 63, of Chambersburg, passed away Thursday November 8, 2018 in the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born November 15, 1954 in Shippensburg, PA. Rita was a daughter of the late Raymond L., Sr. and Dorcas A. Unger Cummings. She attended the King Street United Brethren Church, Chambersburg. Rita was a graduate of the Shippensburg Area Senior High School....
Mary Taylor
Nov 7, 2018
Mary Jane Taylor, 77, of Shippensburg, passed away Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at UPMC Pinnacle Health, Carlisle. She was born October 15, 1941 in Baltimore, MD. Mary Jane was a daughter of the late Max and Anna Belle Loveland Colegrove. Mary Jane retired as the Director of the Rowland Laboratory School at Shippensburg University. She was a member of Middle...
Andrea Roppolo
Nov 7, 2018
Andrea L. Roppolo, 42, of Orrstown, departed this life after a long and courageous battle with cancer, on the morning of Wednesday, November 7, 2018, at her home, with her family by her side. She was born on December 4, 1975, in Chambersburg, a daughter of Connie Coons Stine and the late Ronald Barnhart and was a 1994 graduate of...
Jerry Thomas
Nov 5, 2018
Jerry C. Thomas, Jr., 90, lifelong resident of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of November 5, 2018, at his home. He was born on October 23, 1928, in Shippensburg, a son of the late Jerry C. and Violet Fitzgerald Thomas, Sr. Jerry was a U.S. Navy veteran, enlisting on May 3, 1945 and honorably discharged on October 24,...
Frank Stouffer
Nov 4, 2018
Frank E. Stouffer, 84, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Sunday, November 4, 2018. He was born on December 14, 1933, in Shippensburg, a son of the late Guy P. and Elizabeth Marie Baer Stouffer and married Doris N. Stine on July 25, 1953 by the Rev. Glenn Perry. In his younger years, Frank worked at the...
Zachary Comp
Nov 4, 2018
Zachary I. Comp, 25, of Shippensburg, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, November 4, 2018 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Thursday, January 28, 1993 in Carlisle, he was a son of Randy E. Comp, of Carlisle, and Robert and Kathleen Murphy Riess, Shippensburg. Zachary was a 2012 graduate of the Shippensburg Area Senior High School, and attended the Elim Bible Institute,...
Michael Baer
Nov 2, 2018
Michael J. Baer, 56, of Shippensburg, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, November 2, 2018 at his home. Born Saturday, December 2, 1961 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Donald E. and Carrie M. Shoemaker Baer, Sr. Michael was a 1980 graduate of the Shippensburg Senior High School. He was presently employed as a cook at the Shippensburg...
Sherry Sanders
Nov 1, 2018
It is with great sadness that the family of Sherry Mae Sanders announces her passing after an extended illness, on Thursday, November 1, 2018, at the age of 63 years. She was born on August 12, 1955, in Chambersburg, a daughter of the late Benjamin Franklin Kunkleman, II and Goldie E. (Ingram) Bolen. Sherry retired from the Letterkenny Army Depot...
Linda Sheaffer
Oct 29, 2018
Linda Lou Sheaffer, 74, of Shippensburg, passed away on Monday, October 29, 2018 at Manor Care of Chambersburg. Born Thursday, March 2, 1944 in Shippensburg, she was a daughter of the late Melvin E. and Ella Mae Eckenrode Sheaffer. Linda was of the Protestant Faith. She loved country music, ice cream, and playing BINGO. She is survived by one sister,...
Paul Killinger
Oct 29, 2018
Paul “Barry” Killinger, Sr., 76, of Shippensburg, passed away Monday, October 29, 2018. He was born May 10, 1942 in Carlisle. Barry was a son of the late Paul L., Jr. and Helen Louise Durnin Killinger. Barry first worked for E.C. Barnes Oil Co. in St. Thomas and then for many years worked at the Sunoco Gas Station at Exit...
Margaret Bigler
Oct 24, 2018
Margaret A. “Peggy” Bigler, 82, of Shippensburg, passed away, Wednesday, October 24, 2018, at home, surrounded by her loving family. She was born December 16, 1935 in Shippensburg, PA. Peggy was a daughter of the late Wilbur B. and Mary J. Myers Holtry. She was a member of Messiah United Methodist Church, Shippensburg. Peggy retired from the Shippensburg Area School...
Charles Witter
Oct 22, 2018
Charles E. “Chuck” Witter, 54, of Carlisle, passed away peacefully on Monday, October 22, 2018 at his home surrounded by his loving family. He was born on Friday, March 13, 1964 in Carlisle, a son of Charles Franklin Witter, Carlisle, and the late Marie Kathryn Halter Witter. Chuck was a 1982 graduate of Big Spring High School. He worked as...
Margaret Shimkanon
Oct 22, 2018
Margaret E. “Maggie” Shimkanon, 75, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Monday, October 22, 2018. She was born on November 7, 1942, in Shippensburg a daughter of the late Naomi Fitzgerald Rebok and married Arthur P. Shimkanon on July 2, 1965, in Shippensburg. In her younger years, Maggie worked as a seamstress at several of the former...
John Miller
Oct 21, 2018
John William Miller, 83, of Shippensburg, and formerly of Newville, passed away on Sunday, October 21, 2018 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Monday, October 7, 1935 in Oakville, Cumberland County, he was a son of the late Earl William and Mabel C. Heffelfinger Miller. John was born and raised on the family farm in Newville. John was a United States...
Betty Baker
Oct 17, 2018
Betty Jane Baker, 49, of Carlisle, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at her home surrounded by her loving family. Born Tuesday, October 7, 1969, in Allentown, she was a daughter of David Leroy Weaver, Lynchburg, VA, and the late Barbara Ann Terry Beard. She is survived by two daughters, Cami J. Reynolds, Shippensburg, and Lauren A. Baker,...
Scanna Weikel
Oct 11, 2018
Scanna M. Weikel, 63, of Shippensburg passed away peacefully on Thursday, October 11, 2018 in the Shippensburg Health Care Center. She was born November 13, 1955 in Harrisburg, PA. Scanna was a daughter of the late Willard Clay and Lorraine S. Hass Weikel. She is survived by her brother, Kenneth Weikel of Roxbury and a nephew, Jason Weikel of Upper...
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