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Donna Nye
Nov 9, 2017
Donna Mae Nye, 75, of Chambersburg, passed away Thursday, November 9, 2017 in the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born September 17, 1942 in Centerville, PA. Donna was a daughter of the late Earl S. and Jeannette N. Wyrick Beecher. Donna started her career at Letterkenny Army Depot where she spent 39 years and became a Management Analyst. She retired at...
Robert Kriner
Nov 8, 2017
Robert Edward Kriner 79, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the evening of Wednesday, November 8, 2017, at the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born on April 3, 1938, in Chambersburg, a son of the late Leroy and Tressa Myers Kriner. Robert was a 1956 graduate of Chambersburg High School and a member of the U.S. Army Reserve, honorably discharged on...
Carl Maxwell
Nov 8, 2017
Carl Harrum Maxwell, 97, a resident at Providence Place, Chambersburg, passed away Wednesday, November 8, 2017 in the Life Care Hospital, Mechanicsburg. Born Sunday, August 1, 1920 in Roxbury, he was a son of the late William Harrum and Anna May Rowels Maxwell. Carl was a member of the former Market Street Baptist Church in Harrisburg. Following his Army service...
Charlotte Motter
Nov 8, 2017
Charlotte Elizabeth Motter, 97, of Shippensburg, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at her home. Born Sunday, January 11, 1920 in Fayetteville, PA, she was a daughter of the late Oliver R. and Edna R. DeHart Rotz, Sr. Charlotte was a past member of the Oakville United Methodist Church. She was a member and very active in the...
Thomas Vaughn
Nov 7, 2017
Thomas E. “Tom” Vaughn, 52, of Shippensburg, passed away on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at his home. Born Sunday, May 16, 1965 in Carlisle, he was a son of Glen L. and Emma Jean Gettel Vaughn of Shippensburg. Tom was a 1983 graduate of the Shippensburg Area High School and Franklin County Vocational Technical School. He was presently employed with...
George West
Nov 7, 2017
George P. West, Jr., 64, of Orrstown, departed this life on the morning of Tuesday, November 7, 2017, at the Chambersburg Hospital. He was born on October 3, 1953, in Chambersburg, the son of the late George P. and Shirley Jean Lehman West, Sr. George was a U.S. Army veteran, inducted on November 12, 1970 and honorably discharged on December...
Kenneth Messinger
Nov 6, 2017
Kenneth R. “Kenny” Messinger, Jr., 72, of Shippensburg and formerly of East Berlin, passed away peacefully on Monday, November 6, 2017 at York Hospital surrounded by his loving family. Born Thursday, April 5, 1945 in East Berlin, he was a son of the late Kenneth R. and Dolly Mae Eisenhart Messinger, Sr. Kenneth was a faithful member of the Shippensburg...
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...
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