Martha E. Ditmer
May 1, 2008
Martha Elizabeth Ditmer, age 87 of New Oxford, PA died Thursday, May 1, 2008 at The Brethren Home Community. She was born February 27, 1921 in Mechanicsburg, PA the daughter of the late John and Anna Eckroth Ditmer. She worked with handcrafts at the Goodwill. She was a member of the Church of the Brethren in Mechancisburg. She was a...
Julia Mae Hess
Apr 29, 2008
Julia Mae (Monard) Hess, age 81, of Emmitsburg, Maryland, died on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at the Gettysburg Hospital in Gettysburg, PA. Born May 2, 1926 in Germantown, MD, she was the daughter of the late Lewis and Nettie Mae (Norwood) Monard. She was predeceased by her husband, Shirley Warren Hess in 1998. Prior to her marriage, she was a...
James F. Wilson
Apr 28, 2008
James F. Wilson, 80, of Mt. Airy, formerly of Reisterstown, died Tuesday, April 28, 2008 at Carroll Hospital Center, Westminster. Born January 11, 1928 in Mt. Washington, he was the son of the late Estelle Wilson. His wife, Doris M. Brown Wilson, predeceased him in 1997. Mr. Wilson was retired from Federal Aviation Administration after working for 22 years as...
Lewis A. Cool
Apr 18, 2008
Lewis A. Cool, age 76, of Emmitsburg, Maryland died Friday, April 18, 2008 at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Born October 26, 1931, he was the son of the late George J. and Alice (Topper) Cool. He was the husband of the late Dorothy E. (Wantz) Cool. He was a warehouse clerk at St. Joseph’s College and had also worked at St....
Florence G. Wargny
Apr 16, 2008
Florence G. Wargny, of Taneytown, died Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at Lookabout Manor in Westminster. Born December 16, 1916 in Princeton, New Jersey, she was the daughter of the late Warren and Matilda Golding. The family later moved to Relay, Maryland. She married Frank O. Wargny on December 25, 1942. She was a graduate of Centenary College in Hackettstown, New...
James W. Sell
Apr 16, 2008
James W. Sell, age 72, of Taneytown, Maryland, died suddenly on Wednesday morning, April 16, 2008 at Lorien of Taneytown. Born January 14, 1936 in Taneytown, he was the son of the late Norris F. and Helen E. (Ridinger) Sell. He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Deanna M. (Crouse) Sell. Jim was a member of Trinity Evangelical...
Robert William "Bill" Snyder
Apr 15, 2008
Robert William “Bill” Snyder, age 68, of Taneytown, Maryland, died suddenly Tuesday evening, April 15, 2008 at his home. Born February 20, 1940 in Emmitsburg, Maryland, he was the son of the late Jeremiah W. and Lena A. Angell Snyder. Prior to retirement, Bill was employed by David Wantz Electric, Westinghouse and Cambridge Rubber Factory. He enjoyed fishing, gardening and...
Clair Calvin "Buck" Cullison
Apr 14, 2008
Clair “Buck” Calvin Cullison, age 70, of Emmitsburg, Maryland, died suddenly Monday April 14, 2008 as a result of an automobile accident on his way home from work in Pennsylvania. Born January 7, 1938, in Adams County, Pa., he was the son of the late Harvey Edgar and Laura Gertrude (Winebrenner) Cullison. He was pre-deceased by his wife, Doris Josephine...
Rachel L. Haines
Apr 12, 2008
Rachel Luella Haines, age 86, of Taneytown, Md., died on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at Lorien Taneytown. Born January 11, 1922 in Arnoldstown, Md., Frederick County, she was the daughter of the late Vernon E. and Annie Condon Heffner. She was predeceased by her husband, Ralph “Doc” C. Haines in 1982. She was a member of the Mayberry First Church...
John H. Sanders
Apr 9, 2008
John Harold “Jack” Sanders, age 69 of Westminster died Wednesday April 9, 2008 at Carroll Hospice Dove House. He was born August 12, 1938 in Preston, Maryland the son of Margaret Isabel Chambers Sanders of Preston, MD and the late James W. Sanders. He was the husband of Janet Marlene Thomas Sanders, his wife of 45 years. He served in...
Susan A. Shaffer
Apr 7, 2008
Susan “Sue” Ann Shaffer, age 54 of Westminster died Monday April 7, 2008 at Carroll Hospice Dove House. She was born June 13, 1953 in Maryland, the daughter of Margaret Murray of Rhodesdale, MD and the late Norris Alexander. She was a bus driver for John & Jalna Schaefer and Little People’s Place. She enjoyed woodworking and sewing with plastic...
Rachel V. Wantz
Apr 7, 2008
Rachel Virginia Wantz, age 80 of Emmitsburg, died Monday April 7, 2008 at Northhampton Manor in Frederick. She was born September 3, 1927 in Emmitsburg the daughter late of Charles L. Sr, and Georgina S. Ridge Wantz. She was a quarter Cherokee Indian. She was a member of Church of God in Frederick and in her early years was a...
Vivian Phillips
Apr 5, 2008
Vivian Jean (Shoemaker) Phillips, age 83, of Taneytown, Maryland, died on Saturday, April 5, 2008 at the Carroll Hospice Dove House in Westminster. Born September 6, 1924 in Carroll County, Md, she was the daughter of the late Howard and Elma (Zentz) Shoemaker and the step-daughter of the late Thorton Shoemaker, all of Taneytown. She was the wife of the...
Thelma M. Mcelwain
Apr 5, 2008
Thelma Marceal (Snyder) McElwain, age 84, of Finksburg, Maryland, died on Saturday, April 5, 2008 at the Golden Living Center of Westminster. Born March 12, 1924 in Ringgold, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Alvie Byron and Leota (Colman) Snyder. She was married to Edward W. McElwain, Sr. on July 1, 1944. He pre-deceased her on April 2,...
Frances R. Seltzer
Apr 4, 2008
Frances Regina Seltzer, age 64, of Thurmont, Maryland, died on Friday, evening April 4, 2008 at the Frederick Memorial Hospital in Frederick, Maryland. Born August 9, 1943 in Emmitsburg, Md., she was the daughter of the late Alice Regina (Miller) Eyler. She was the wife of 30 years to Thomas William Seltzer, Sr., to whom she was married on May...
Sidney D. Miller
Apr 1, 2008
Sidney Dwight Miller, age 56 of Westminster died Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at his home. He was born August 16, 1951 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, the son of George H. and Agnes L. Stephan Miller of Westminster. He was the companion of Sharon Lee Brothers of Westminster. He was a 1969 graduate of Westminster High School. He had worked as a...
Debora Ann Sanders
Apr 1, 2008
Debora Ann Sanders, age 56, of Emmitsburg, Maryland, died suddenly on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at her home. Born July 2, 1951 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of Marianne Gochenour Myers of Emmitsburg, and the late John Clifton Dick and step-daughter of the late Richard H. Myers. She was the previous spouse of Richard T. Sanders of Woodsboro,...
Rachel A. Urban
Apr 1, 2008
Rachel Alida Urban, age 89 of Finksburg died Tuesday April 1, 2008 at her home in Finksburg. She was born July 3, 1918 in South Ashburham, Massachusetts the daughter of the late Wilfred and Almy LaCoss Taylor. She was the wife of the late Robert F. Urban who died in April 1996. She worked in office personal at the Cambridge...
Nancy A. Frederick
Mar 26, 2008
Nancy Ann Frederick, age 48 of Finksburg, died Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at Carroll Hospital Center. She was born December 28, 1959 in Baltimore, the daughter of Vera J. Hoback Kaufman of Finksburg and the late Jerome Albert Kaufman. She was the wife of Louis H. Frederick III, her husband of 15 years. She enjoyed watching Joel Olsteen and Joyce...
Mildred I. Dutrow
Mar 25, 2008
Mrs. Mildred I. (Millie) Dutrow, 93, of Ocala, FL, and former long time resident of Emmitsburg, died Tuesday, March 25 at Estelle’s Hospice House in Ocala. Born January 3, 1915, she was the daughter of the late William F. Sanders and Ida V. Sites Sanders. Mrs. Dutrow was employed for 35 years at Boyle’s Store in Emmitsburg as a clerk....