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Jacqueline Cassatt
Nov 17, 2022
Jacqueline R. Cassatt entered into eternal rest on Thursday, November 17, 2022 after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born on July 7, 1939 to Stephen and Johanna (Krasevic) Barber. Although she spent most of her adult life living in Middletown, her heart always resided in her childhood home on the West Side of Steelton. Jackie was the widow...
Larry Dagenhart
Nov 17, 2022
Larry Dagenhart, 76, of Penbrook, died Thursday, November 17, 2022 in UPMC - Harrisburg Hospital. He was a retired trucker driver and had been employed by the former Bethlehem Steel Corporation - Steelton and was a former member of the Dauphin County Pool League. Larry was the son of the late Earl Dagenhart and Mary Kleinsak Dagenhart. He is survived...
Shirley Bowman
Nov 16, 2022
Shirley E. Bowman, 79 of Butler Street Senior Living, died Wednesday, November 16, 2022 in UPMC - Community Osteopathic Hospital. She was a graduate of John Harris High School Class of 1961. Following school, she started working in the mail room and retired as a Commercial Lines Underwriter for Penn National Insurance Company of Harrisburg. She was the most senior...
Keith Smith
Nov 14, 2022
On the evening of November 14, 2022, Keith Smith, of Harrisburg died at the age of 62. Keith was born to Terry and the late Sandra Smith in 1960. He is survived by the love of his life, and best friend, Pamela Smith. They raised two beautiful girls, Nicole Custer and husband Steve and Ashley Minea and fiancé Eric Miller;...
Margaret Stockmal
Nov 6, 2022
Margaret J. Zorek Stockmal, 73, of Lower Paxton Twp., died Sunday, November 6, 2022 in UPMC Community Osteopathic Hospital. She was a retired Secretary for True Temper Manufacturing Co., Harrisburg, and also worked at Blockbuster Video. Margaret lived with close friends, Faye Marc and Wendy Skaggs for the past 15 years in Harrisburg. She was the daughter of the late...
Gail Jones
Nov 5, 2022
Gail A. Jones, 50, of Swatara Township, passed away Saturday, November 5, 2022, in her home, surrounded by loved ones after a five-month battle with cervical cancer. Born August 26, 1972, in Pottsville, she was the daughter of Russell and Charlotte (Readinger) Dewald. She was a 1990 graduate of Schuylkill Haven High School and obtained her Bachelor of Science degree...
Barry Shatto
Nov 5, 2022
Barry Edward Shatto, 78, of Middletown, PA. died Saturday November 5, 2022 in his home. He was the son of the late Marvin Shatto and Loretta (Poorman) Shatto. Barry retired after 31 years from the United States Postal Service in Harrisburg, PA. He was a postal worker, mail handler and maintenance worker retiring from the Swatara Post Office on Derry...
James Murlin, Sr.
Nov 4, 2022
James J. Murlin, Sr., 75, of Steelton, died Friday, November 4, 2022 in Hershey Medical Center. He was a graduate of Bishop McDevitt High School Class of 1965, a retired employee of Bethlehem Steel Corp. with 29 years of service, Commonwealth of PA Dept. of Revenue with 20 years of service, and Penn National Race Track. Jim coached basketball at...
William Yovanovich
Oct 30, 2022
William Z. Yovanovich, 87, Mount Joy, PA. died peacefully on Sunday October 30, 2022 in his home. William retired from the Commonwealth of PA-Division of Health and Welfare as a Public Administrator, retiring in 1998. He also worked for Dauphin County Mental Health and for the PA Health and Welfare Dept. as Director of Personal Care Homes of PA. William...
Susan Hatfield
Oct 28, 2022
Susan E. Crowley Hatfield, 81, of Mechanicsburg, died Friday, October 28, 2022 in UPMC West Shore Hospital, Hampden Twp. She was a graduate of Leechburg High School Class of 1959, a Hair Stylist for Continental Hair Stylists, and more recently, the retired owner and operator of Susan Crowley Beauty Shop for over 30 years. She was a member of St....
Sandra Spoljaric
Oct 25, 2022
Sandra J. Keller Spoljaric, BSN, RN, OCN, 72, of Chambers Hill, died Tuesday, October 25, 2022 in Carolyn''s House of Hospice of Central PA, Susquehanna Twp. She was a graduate of Wilkes Barre General Hospital School of Nursing and Elizabethtown College, where she obtained her BSN. She was an Oncology Certified Register Nurse at Hershey Medical Center in the Cancer...
Barry Buskey
Oct 23, 2022
Barry J. Buskey, 82, of Susquehanna Twp., died Sunday, October 23, 2022 in his home. He was a graduate of John Harris High School Class of 1958, a US Army Veteran of the Vietnam War serving in the Military Police. He was a former employee of Harrisburg Electrical Bureau and was a retired Firefighter with the Bureau of Fire, City...
Andrew Padjen
Oct 21, 2022
Andrew Padjen, 90, of Shiremanstown, formerly of Steelton, passed away Friday, October 21, 2022 at UPMC West Shore Hospital. Andy was a graduate of Steelton High School Class of 1950. He was a graduate of Dickinson College with a B.A. in Biology and was a member of Theta Chi Fraternity. He received his Masters of Education from Shippensburg University and...
Albert Schmeltzer
Oct 21, 2022
Albert P. Schmeltzer, 76, of Middletown, died Friday, October 21, 2022 in Hershey Medical Center. He was the son of the late Albert P. Schmeltzer, Sr. and Anna Marie Abel Schmeltzer and is survived by his wife, Judith M. (Coates) Schmeltzer and sisters, Anna M. (Schmeltzer) Sullivan of Middletown, who is the widow of the late Joseph Sullivan and Rose...
Jo-An Stanovich
Oct 18, 2022
Jo-An E. "Tracey" Winger Stanovich, 81, of Steelton, died Tuesday, October 18, 2022 in UPMC Harrisburg Hospital surrounded by her loving family. She was a retired Chocolate Worker at the Hershey Chocolate Factory and a member of St. Nicholas Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church, Oberlin. Tracey was the daughter of the late Anthony "Hank" and Margaret Kerlin Winger. She is survived...
Barbara Shafer
Oct 18, 2022
Barbara A. Fox Shafer, 71, of Middletown, died Tuesday, October 18, 2022 in Claremont Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Carlisle. She was the owner and operator of Cutters Edge Beauty Shop, Middletown. Barbara was the daughter of the late Harvey and Bessie Foster Fox and is survived by her loving husband of 40 years, James A. Shafer, Sr.; three daughters, Valerie...
Janet Sterner
Oct 16, 2022
Janet L. Sterner, 88, of Hummelstown, died Sunday, October 16, 2022 in Penn State - Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. She was a retired waitress for Hof's Hut in Anaheim CA. She was the daughter of the late Charles and Erma Diebert and was preceded in death by her daughter, Tae D. Sterner and was the widow of Irvin B....
Dorothea Smith
Oct 15, 2022
Dorothea E. Hoover Smith, 94, of The Middletown Home and formerly of Q Street, Steelton, died Saturday, October 15, 2022 in the Home. She was an Instruction Draftsman Apprentice working at the Bridge Shop and also worked on plans for the Delaware Memorial Bridge and the checkered gas tank in Steelton, which expanded up and down. She worked many roles...
Margaret Spangler
Oct 12, 2022
Margaret A. Canning Spangler, 89, of Holly Springs, NC and formerly of Rutherford, died Wednesday, October 12, 2022, in her home, surrounded by her loving family. Margaret was the daughter of the late, Paul L. Canning and Helen C. Andes Canning and was the widow of Ralph N. Spangler, Jr. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Sharon Wilburn...
Nancy Deimler
Oct 12, 2022
Nancy Pohner Deimler, 82, of Colonial Park Care Center, Lower Paxton Twp. and formerly of Harrisburg, died Wednesday, October 12, 2022 in the Center. She was a retired Secretary for the State Office of Veterans of Foreign Wars and a member of Prince of Peace Roman Catholic Parish, Steelton. Nancy was the daughter of the late Joseph and Lottie Pohner...
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