Recent Obituaries
Gerald W. Robertson
Dec 2, 2017
Gerald W. "Gerry" Robertson, 82 of Boiling Springs, died unexpectedly on Saturday, December 2, 2017 in Holy Spirit Hospital in Camp Hill. He was born on June 29, 1935 in Detroit, MI, and was a son of the late Ray and Fay (Pendleton) Robertson.
Gerald was a 1953 graduate of Republic High School in...
Edgar Stuart Henry
Nov 28, 2017
Edgar Stuart Henry, 89, of Carlisle, quietly passed away on Tuesday, November 28, 2017 in the Sarah A. Todd Memorial Home, Carlisle. He was born on April 13, 1928 in Middle Spring, Cumberland County, and was a son of the late Paul A. and Mamie (Warren) Henry.
Ed was a 1946 graduate of Shippensburg High School....
Mary V. Rice
Nov 22, 2017
Mary V. (Gaines) Rice, 90, formerly of Baltimore St., Carlisle, passed away on Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at Thornwald Home, Carlisle. She was born on January 17, 1927 in Chambersburg, and was the daughter of the late Dennis and Georgia (Wells) Gaines. She was the widow of George W. Rice, Sr., who passed away on June 16, 2012....
Linda H. Amsley
Nov 19, 2017
Linda D. Amsley, 72, of Carlisle, passed away on Sunday, November 19, 2017 in the M. S. Hershey Medical Center with her family by her side. She was born on April 9, 1945 in Chambersburg, and was the daughter of the late Drew M. and Isabelle (Sackman) Diffenderfer.
Linda was a 1963 graduate of...
Robert W. Shriner
Nov 17, 2017
Robert W. Shriner, II, 62, of Carlisle, died on Friday, November 17, 2017 at home. He was born on May 19, 1955, in Altoona, PA, and is the son of Robert W. Shriner of Carlisle and the late Janet (Hummell) Shriner.
Services and burial will be private. Ewing Brothers Funeral Home handled the arrangements....
Arthur E. Leigh
Nov 14, 2017
Arthur E. Leigh, 88, of Carlisle, passed away peacefully in his home in the Cumberland Crossings Retirement Community on Tuesday, November 14, 2017. He was born on February 18, 1929, in Philadelphia to John J. Leigh and Margaret (Delacour) Leigh, and was raised in Drexel Hill, PA. Besides his parents, he was predeceased by two brothers and three...
Ralph H. Weigel
Nov 13, 2017
Ralph Weigel, 90, of Carlisle, passed away on Monday, November 13, 2017 at home. He was born on April 10, 1927 in York Springs, and was a son of the late Norman A. and Alvie M. R. (Day) Weigel.
Ralph graduated from York Springs High School. He was an Army veteran of WWII and...
Rhyhiem D. Hodge
Nov 12, 2017
Rhyhiem Duane Hodge, 35, of Carlisle, died on Sunday, November 12, 2017 at home. He was born on November 9, 1982 in Carlisle, and is the son of Mary JaneHodgeand Eric D. (wife, Amy) Coleman , both of Carlisle.
Rhyhiem earned his high school diploma from Glenn Mills in Philadelphia....
Gladys F. Hefelfinger
Nov 11, 2017
Gladys F. Hefelfinger, 81, of The Village of Laurel Run, Fayetteville and formerly of Gettysburg, passed away on Saturday, November 11, 2017, at Gettysburg Hospital. She was born on January 6, 1936 in Oakville, Cumberland County, and was daughter of the late Ervin H. and Mary (Reinhardt) Foltz and was the widow of William H. Hefelfinger, who passed...
Inge M. Wallace
Nov 10, 2017
Inge Wallace passed away on November 10, 2017 from injuries sustained in automobile accident on September 3, 2017. Her family was by her side. Inge was born on September 20, 1930 in Rockershausen, Germany to Joseph and Helene (Koehler) Krner.
On Christmas 1962, Inge married Lester J. Wallace in Saarbrucken, Germany and then traveled...
Betty Jane Black
Nov 10, 2017
Betty Jane "BJ" Black, 87, of Carlisle, passed away on Friday, November 10, 2017 at home. She was born on October 7, 1930 in Coraopolis, PA, and was a daughter of the late Clarence and Iva (Mixter) Merriman and the widow of Thomas Black, who passed away in 2014.
Betty was a 1948 graduate...
Roy G. Kennedy
Nov 4, 2017
Roy G. Kennedy, 97, formerly of Mt. Holly Springs, passed away on Saturday, November 4, 2017 in Forest Park Health Center, Carlisle. He was born on October 25, 1920 in Leechburg, PA, and was a son of the late George S. and Anna M. (Swank) Kennedy.
Roy graduated from New Kensington High School in...
Eileen Kirwan Markel
Nov 2, 2017
Eileen (Kirwan) Markel, 80, of Wexford, PA passed away peacefully November 2, 2017, in the home she shared with her son and daughter in law. A long-time resident of Carlisle PA, Eileen was born in Portlaw, County Waterford Ireland to the late Edward Kirwan and Helen Nolan Kirwan. She was preceded in death by her loving and devoted...
Margaret A. Lay
Oct 29, 2017
Margaret A. Lay, 71, formerly of Bloserville, died on Sunday, October 29, 2017, at the Fox Subacute, Mechanicsburg. She was born Wednesday, September 18, 1946 in Carlisle, and was a daughter of the late William Kenneth Weigle, and Sylvia E. (Steigleman) Weigle.
She was a graduate of Big Spring High School, Newville with the...
Arnold L. Kohl
Oct 27, 2017
Arnold L. Kohl, 80, of Carlisle, passed away on Friday, October 27, 2017 in the Forest Park Health Center, Carlisle. He was born on October 18, 1937 in Freeport, Illinois, and was a son of the late Arnold Oscar Kohl and Carrie (Plasch) Kohl.
He graduated in 1955 from Freeport High School and served in the...
Peggy Ann Porter
Oct 25, 2017
Peggy Ann Porter, 86, formerly of Plainfield, passed away on Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at Green Ridge Village in Newville. She was born on February 19, 1931 in Carlisle, and was a daughter of the late Elbert and Gladys Rose and was the widow of Stewart H. Porter, Sr., who passed away on May 24, 2016.
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Marie Eva Hurley
Oct 25, 2017
Marie Eva Hurley, 96, of Colorado Springs, CO, passed away on Wednesday October 25, 2017 in the Pikes Peak Care Center in Colorado Springs. She was born on April 20, 1921 in Prince George County, Maryland and was the daughter of the late Roy A. and Anna Viola (Sollenberger) Weibley and the widow of Marshall Lee Hurley, who...
Robert Hugo Theimer
Oct 24, 2017
Robert Hugo Theimer, passed away on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 in the Green Ridge Village Nursing Home, Newville. In honoring Hugo's wish, services and burial will be privately held by his family in New York.
Esther R. Brandt
Oct 18, 2017
Esther R. Brandt, 96, formerly of Boiling Springs, passed away on Thursday, October 19, 2017 in Claremont Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Carlisle. She was born on December 11, 1920 in Mt. Holly Springs, and was a daughter of the late John P. and Mary E. (Kuhn) Harry and the widow of Lawrence E. Brandt, who passed away March...