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Gene Furry
Nov 4, 2017
Gene G. Furry, 83, of Shippensburg, passed away peacefully on Saturday, November 4, 2017 at the Shippensburg Health care Center. Born Thursday, September 13, 1934 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Charles Oscar and Isabelle Geyer Furry, Sr. Gene was a 1952 graduate of the Shippensburg Senior High School and attended the Shippensburg University. He was a...
Allen Romine
Nov 4, 2017
Allen L. Romine, 62, of rural Newburg, PA, departed this life on the afternoon of Saturday, November 4, 2017, at his home. He was born on December 26, 1954, in Mt. Holly, Twp., Burlington Co., NJ, raised in Yeadon, PA, the son of the late Levorn and Elsie Ferguson Romine. Allen was a 1977 graduate of the Philadelphia College of...
Doris Kelley
Oct 31, 2017
Doris J. Kelley, 74, a resident of the Shippensburg Health Care Center, departed this life on the morning of Tuesday, October 31, 2017. She was born on August 25, 1943, in Southampton Twp., Cumberland Co., a daughter of the late Herman S. and Margaret P. Stine Kelley. Doris was a former member of the South Mountain Chapel Brethren in Christ...
Jeffrey Lyons
Oct 30, 2017
Jeffrey Ross Lyons, 36, of Shippensburg, departed this life on Monday, October 30, 2017. He was born on November 29, 1980, in Carlisle, a son of Jerry S. and Susan McCleaf Lyons and was a 1999 graduate of Shippensburg Area High School. Jeff worked for his father’s rental property business doing management and maintenance. He also worked at the H....
Diane Diehl
Oct 29, 2017
Diane Louise Rock Diehl, 75, of San Antonio, TX, formerly of Piper Road, Shippensburg, passed away at St. Luke’s Baptist Hospital, San Antonio, TX, on Sunday, October 29, 2017. She was born January 21, 1942 in Shippensburg, PA. Diane was a daughter of the late Alfred C. and Helen Hancock Rock. Diane absolutely loved her work, working as an LPN...
Faye Ordway
Oct 27, 2017
Faye M. Ordway, 83, of Shippensburg, passed away Friday, October 27, 2017 in the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born February 11, 1934 in Shippensburg. Faye was a daughter of the late David and Louetta Miller Strayer. She retired from the Letterkenny Army Depot where she was an Accounting Technician. Faye was a 1952 graduate of the Shippensburg High School. She...
Earl Baer
Oct 27, 2017
Earl H. Baer, 91 of Shippensburg, passed away, Friday, October 27, 2017 at Menno Haven, Chambersburg. Born September 2, 1926 in Dayton, PA, he was a son of the late James O. and Ruth Elizabeth Holtry Baer. Earl was a United States Air Force Veteran serving in WWII. He was the Founder, President, and CEO of Shipco, Shippensburg. Earl was...
George Durf
Oct 24, 2017
George F. Durf, Sr., 86, of Orrstown, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born Wednesday, September 23, 1931 in Shippensburg, he was a son of the late Harry Albert and Catherine Elizabeth Sites Durf. George was a member of the Trinity United Methodist Church, Walnut Bottom. He retired in 1994 after 38 years of...
Samuel Hancock
Oct 23, 2017
Samuel L. Hancock, 76, of Orrstown, passed away peacefully on Monday, October 23, 2017 at his home. Born Saturday, December 21, 1940 in Shippensburg, he was a son of the late Harper E. and Lena E. Warren Hancock. Samuel was a United States Army and Air Force Veteran serving in the Vietnam War. He retired from Letterkenny Army Depot where...
Travis Ott
Oct 20, 2017
Travis W. Ott, 31, of Chambersburg, passed away. He was born September 11, 1986 in Chambersburg. Travis was a son of Teresa F. Dunlap Ott and her companion John L. Baker of Chambersburg, and Kenneth E. Ott, Sr. of Shippensburg. He worked for both the Cumberland Highway Family Restaurant and Baker’s Kwik Stop, Orrstown. Travis was a 2005 graduate of...
Elwood Pisle
Oct 18, 2017
Elwood J. Pisle, 91, life-long resident of Shippensburg, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by loving family on Wednesday, October 18, 2017. He was born on August 25, 1926, in Shippensburg, a son of the late John and Sara Pisle. Elwood was a U.S. Navy veteran of W.W. II, who served in the European Theater, enlisting on November 11, 1944,...
Glendon Burkholder
Oct 17, 2017
Glendon Z. Burkholder, 4, of Shippensburg passed away Tuesday, October 17, 2017 in the Emergency Room at the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born Friday, July 5, 2013 in Shippensburg, Cumberland County. Glendon was a son of Elmer M. and Mary H. Zimmerman Burkholder. In addition to his parents Glendon is survived by three siblings, Marlene Z. Burkholder, Laray Z. Burkholder...
Joseph Thrush
Oct 16, 2017
Joseph L. “Joe” Thrush, Sr., 63, of Newburg, departed this life on the evening of Monday, October 16, 2017, at the M.S. Hershey Medical Center. He was born on August 7, 1954, in Chambersburg, a son of the late Wayne and Martha Mellott Thrush. Joe was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, enlisting on February 5, 1973 and honorably discharged on...
John Baum
Oct 16, 2017
John T. Baum, Jr., 56, of Walnut Bottom, departed this life on the morning of Monday, October 16, 2017. He was born on August 26, 1961, in Carlisle, the son of John T. Sr. and Beulah L. Stum Baum. John worked in the construction industry for over twenty years as a member of the PA Heavy and Highway Constructions Workers...
Mary Schaffer
Oct 15, 2017
Mary Anne Schaffer, 81, of Shippensburg, passed away peacefully on Sunday, October 15, 2017 at her home surrounded by her loving family. Born Wednesday, September 9, 1936 in Shippensburg, she was a daughter of the late Howard Schaffer and Helen Fields Fogelsonger. Mary Anne was a 1954 graduate of the Shippensburg Area Senior High School. She was a member of...
Adam Willis
Oct 14, 2017
Adam Matthew Willis, 40, of Orrstown, passed away Saturday, October 14, 2017 at the Carlisle Regional Medical Center, surrounded by his loving family. Born Thursday, June 23, 1977 in Chambersburg, he was a son of Lloyd J. and Joanne O’Donnell Willis. Adam was presently employed at Commercial Concept in McConnellsburg where he worked as a farmer. He was a member...
Anna Kinlaw
Oct 7, 2017
Anna M. Kinlaw, 77, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the morning of Saturday, October 7, 2017, at her home. She was born on May 8, 1940, in Shinnston, WV, a daughter of the late Bertram Alexander and Bonnie Lea Bowman Cassell. Anna worked as a cook for many different restaurants throughout her life. She enjoyed crocheting and reading. She...
Dolores Carey
Oct 7, 2017
Dolores Gilbert Carey, 77, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the evening of Saturday, October 7, 2017, at the Orrstown Personal Care Home. She was born on January 27, 1940, in Shippensburg, a daughter of the late Richard C. “Buck” Gilbert and Genevie L. Evans Shearer and married Ernest “Lee” Carey on July 25, 1958, in Chambersburg. Dolores was a...
Robert Foust
Oct 7, 2017
Robert R. “Bob” Foust, 83, of Orrstown, departed this life on the evening of Saturday, October 7, 2017, at the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born on August 20, 1934, in Chambersburg, a son of the late Ross J. and Mary E. Holtry Foust and married Rhea R. Reineman on September 29, 1995 in Jackson Hole, WY. Bob worked as a...
Janet Hock
Oct 3, 2017
Janet Marie Hock, 83, of Shippensburg, departed this life on Tuesday, October 3, 2017, at her home. She was born on December 6, 1933, in Orrstown, the daughter of the late Robert Ellis and Dorothy Hock Stache. Janet retired from the Franklin Clothing Company, where she worked as a seamstress. She was a long-time member of the Shippensburg First Church...
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