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Norma Strassburger
Sep 15, 2017
Norma Jean Strassburger, 79, of Shippensburg, passed away peacefully on Friday, September 15, 2017 at Green Ridge Village, Newville. Born Friday, February 25, 1938 in Lewistown, she was a daughter of the late Herman R. and N. Viola Telfer Strassburger. She was a member of the Shippensburg Presbyterian Church. Norma was a 1955 graduate of the Shippensburg High School and...
Andrew Ackelsberg
Sep 14, 2017
Andrew M. “Andy” Ackelsberg, 35, of Shippensburg passed away Thursday, September 14, 2017 at the Hershey Medical Center surrounded by his loving family and friends. He was born June 21, 1982 in Carlisle, PA. Andy was a son of Donna L. Negley Ackelsberg of Shippensburg and Alan Ackelsberg of Philadelphia. He was a member of the Cleversburg United Methodist Church....
Donald Mellinger
Sep 4, 2017
Donald S. Mellinger, 94, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the evening of Monday, September 4, 2017. He was born on October 28, 1922, in Southampton Twp., Cumberland Co., a son of the late Rolla and Vera Sprecher Mellinger. Donald was a 1940 graduate of Shippensburg High School and worked as a machinist at the Steelton Plant of the former...
Beulah Wiser
Sep 4, 2017
Beulah Anna Wiser, 86, a resident of the Orrstown Personal Care Home, passed away Monday, September 4, 2017 at the home. She was born December 15, 1930 in Chambersburg, PA. Beulah was a daughter of the late Arthur and Anna Knoll Zook. She retired from the former Grief Company in 1993. Beulah was a member of the Lurgan United Brethren...
Harold Wenger
Aug 31, 2017
Our beloved father, Harold Lehman Wenger, 92, of Shippensburg, passed away peacefully at home with his family Thursday, August 31, 2017. He was born September 5, 1924 in Shippensburg, Franklin County. Harold was a son of the late Paul I. and Clara Belle (Lehman) Wenger. His wife of 66 years, Betty Kyle Wenger preceded him in death July 9, 2014....
Gregory Piper
Aug 25, 2017
Gregory L. Piper, 54, of Carlisle, unexpectedly departed this life on Friday, August 25, 2017, at his home. He was born on October 22, 1962, in Pensacola, FL, a son of the late Leroy Piper, Jr. and Patricia A. McCrae Piper. Gregg was trained as a draftsman and spent the majority of his working life employed within the engineering field...
Rolla Corle
Aug 24, 2017
Rolla L. Corle, 72, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the evening of Thursday, August 24, 2017, at LifeCare Hospital, Mechanicsburg. He was born on December 6, 1944, in East St. Clair Twp., Bedford Co., a son of the late David F. and Althea E. Jordan Corle. Rolla was a 1963 graduate of Chestnut Ridge High School. He married Nancy...
Bessie Hamilton
Aug 24, 2017
Bessie F. Hamilton, 85, of Shippensburg, departed this life on the evening of Thursday, August 24, 2017, at the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born on September 6, 1931, in Mainsville, the daughter of the late John W. and Laura S. Helm Baker. Bessie was a 1949 graduate of Shippensburg High School. She married Harold L. Hamilton, Sr., on March 15,...
Janet Kann
Aug 19, 2017
Janet K. Kann, 72, of Shippensburg passed away Saturday, August 19, 2017 at home. She was born September 16, 1944 in Leesburg, PA. Janet was a daughter of the late Irvin and Grace Staver Keeseman. She was a member of the Trinity United Methodist Church, Walnut Bottom. Janet retired from SKF Industries and then went on to work at the...
Jeffrey Comerer
Aug 18, 2017
Jeffrey L. Comerer, 56 of Monroe, NC, formerly of Walnut Bottom, departed this life on Friday, August 18, 2017. He was born in Carlisle, the son of the Brinton “Fireball” Comerer and the late Dorothy V. Vaughn Comerer. Jeffrey worked for the United Parcel Service in Harrisburg, before moving to North Carolina. In his younger years he enjoyed playing baseball....
Richard Davis Virgens
Aug 18, 2017
Richard Davis Linscott Virgens Richard Davis Linscott Virgens, 84, passed away Friday, August 18, 2017 at Claremont Nursing Home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Richard was born December 9, 1932 in Lewiston, Maine to Hazel Emogene Prout and John Shepard Linscott of North Monmouth, Maine. Emil Paul Walter Virgens, who remained his father throughout life, later adopted Richard. Richard attended various schools...
Charles Morgan
Aug 17, 2017
Charles William “Bill” Morgan, 70, of Shippensburg, passed away Thursday, August 17, 2017 in the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Born Friday, September 20, 1946 in the Lewistown Hospital, he was a son of the late C. James and Hazel Arnold Morgan. Bill worked as a Middle School Teacher in the Chambersburg Area School District. He was a member of...
Martha Alleman
Aug 15, 2017
Martha “Phyllis” Alleman, 88, of Shippensburg, went to be with the Lord Tuesday, August 15, 2017 surrounded by her loving family. She was born December 18, 1928 in Leesburg, PA. Phyllis was a daughter of the late John and Ethel Frehn Reese. She was a member of the Cleversburg United Methodist Church and sang in their choir for over 50...
Betty Keeseman Johnson
Aug 14, 2017
Betty “Jeanie” Keeseman Johnson, 78, of Shippensburg passed away Monday, August 14, 2017 in the Thornwald Home. She was born February 22, 1939 in Newville. Betty was a daughter of the late Herbert and Marie Hardy Lindsay. She retired from Knouse Foods and attended the Greenvillage Church of God. Betty is survived by her companion, Donald Shetter, five children, Brett...
Lucille Sappington
Aug 13, 2017
Lucille B. Sappington, 83, of Shippensburg, passed away Sunday, August 13, 2017 in the Chambersburg Hospital. She was born September 8, 1933 in Baltimore, MD. Lucille was the daughter of the late Ulric and Della Parker Brock. Devoted wife, loving mother, adoring grandmother, Lucille lived her life as an expression of her deep faith, reaching out to those in need...
Patricia Fasnacht
Aug 7, 2017
Patricia Ann Fasnacht, 79, of Shippensburg, formerly of Walnut Bottom, departed this life on the morning of Monday, August 7, 2017, at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born on November 21, 1937, she was the daughter of the late Bernard and Lucy Mary Johns Wall and widow of the late Charles J. Fasnacht, who died on June 14, 1989. Patricia and Charles...
Michael Witmer
Aug 6, 2017
Michael Anthony Witmer, Jr., 41, departed this life on Sunday, August 6, 2017, at his home. He was born on June 9, 1976, in Chambersburg, a son of the late Michael Anthony Witmer, Sr. and Penny Comerer Burd. Michael once worked in the construction field, but could not continue due to being diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease. He enjoyed sports...
Alvin Elliott
Aug 5, 2017
Alvin E. “Slim” Elliott, 85, of Shippensburg, died Saturday, August 5, 2017 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born October 30, 1931 in Waynesboro, he was a son of the late David M. and Zelda G. Etter Elliott. Alvin was a 1949 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School. He retired from SKF Industries in Shippensburg with 44 years of service....
Harold Hutchinson
Aug 5, 2017
Harold R. Hutchinson, 88, of Newville, departed this life on the evening of Saturday, August 5, 2017, at Green Ridge Village. He was born on September 13, 1928, in Shippensburg, a son of the late Ross and Mary Kohler Hutchinson. Harold was a U.S. Airforce veteran of WW II, enlisting on September 3, 1946 and honorably discharged on September 2,...
James Gleim
Aug 4, 2017
James E. Gleim, Sr., 82, of Shippensburg, passed away Friday, August 4, 2017 at his home. Born Wednesday, July 24, 1935 in Harrisburg, he was a son of the late Quentin Albert and Mary Elizabeth Alverta Doner Gleim. James was of the Brethren Faith. He was a United States National Guard Veteran serving with the 28th Division. James was an...
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