Obituaries

Barbara A. Monyer, 93 of Manheim, PA died Sunday, February 21, 2016, at Pleasant View Retirement Community.Born in Reading, PA, she was the daughter of the late Milton M. and Elizabeth Hafer Monyer.  She was a graduate of J.P. McCaskey High School.Barbara retired as Vice President and manager of the Lancaster Branch of Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company of Philadelphia. ...

George Leaman Myers, aged 71, died February 22nd at Masonic Village in Elizabethtown.Many Lancastrians of a certain age will remember George’s good cheer and enthusiastic conversation at Joe Myers Restaurant on Lincoln Highway East.George was the son of the late Joseph A Myers Sr and the late Mary C Myers.  He graduated from Lancaster Country Day School in 1962 and...

Jean Martin Wedel, 88, of Lancaster Pa, passed gently into God’s hands on February 19, 2016 surrounded by her loving family.  Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Jean grew up in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and was the only daughter of Dr. Pauline and Albert Martin.Jean met her husband Paul G. Wedel at the Army Navy Country Club in 1944 while still living...

Edward F. Gola, 95, of Lancaster, died Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at Lancaster General Hospital.He was the husband of Ruth Weaver Gola.  Edward was born and raised in Clifton, NJ.He had been a butcher and owned Eddies Pine Cliff Meat Market in West Milford, NJ for many years.  He had been mayor of West Milford for 5 years and was...

Constance “Connie” Cortright Sheaffer age 76, passed peacefully into the arms of the Lord on February 21, 2016 with her son Michael and Daughter in law Tari by her side at Conestoga View Nursing and Rehabilitation Lancaster.Connie,  born in Lancaster to the late Russell Cortright and Mary Wissler Cortright helped raise a family, studied diligently to become a career oriented...

Kenneth Richard Frey, 89 of Lancaster, passed away peacefully on Sunday, February 21, 2016 at Lancaster General Hospital.  He is the beloved husband of Joanne Kreider Frey with whom he shared over 65 years of marriage.Born July 16, 1926 in Paradise, PA, he was the son of the late Jacob and Phoebe Lehman Frey.In addition to his wife, he is...

Ruth Sachs Allison, 88, of Lancaster passed away in the presence of family on Saturday afternoon, February 20th. Ruth was born and raised in Metuchen, New Jersey. She was the daughter of the late Herman and Pauline (Werner) Hoops (Metuchen, New Jersey), former wife of Ross H. Sachs for 52 years (deceased Feb 2, 2001) and the wife of Richard...

Kenneth C. Miller, 81, of Lancaster, PA passed away Thursday, February 18, 2016 at ManorCare of Lancaster. He was the husband of Anna Mae Jackson Miller.Born in Lancaster, Mr. Miller was the son of the late Robert, Jr. and Mary Beamsderfer Miller.  He served 25 years with the Lancaster City Police Department, and 15 years as Supervisor of Security at...

Janet T. Dahrsnin, of Lancaster, PA passed away Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at The Glen at Willow Valley.  She was the beloved wife of Edwin A. Dahrsnin to whom she had been married since January 12, 1970.Born in Chester, PA, Mrs. Dahrsnin was the daughter of the late Samuel J. and Martha A. Myers Talbot.  Prior to moving to Willow...

Alma M. Brackbill, 88, formerly of Leaman Road, Ronks, a resident of Ephrata Manor, died at the home on Monday, February 15, 2016.She was the wife of the late Norman W. Brackbill who died in 2009.  Born in Lancaster, she was the daughter of the late Linton and Katie Stauffer Myers.Alma had worked at Plain & Fancy as a cook...

Clifford John Rode (75) of Lancaster, PA, and formerly of upstate New York, died peacefully of a brain hemorrhage on February 14, 2016.He was born January 11, 1941, the son of the late Felix and Frances Rode.He was a 1958 graduate of Cooperstown Central High School, Cooperstown, NY and a 1962 graduate of Cornell University with a BS degree in...

Donald E. Coble, 84, of Lancaster, entered into rest on Thursday, February 11, 2016 at Hospice & Community Care.He was the loving husband to the late Jean Marie Coble to whom he was married to for 25 years.  Born in Lancaster, PA., he was the son of the late Harry E. and Helen (Shearer) Coble.He graduated from J.P. McCaskey High...

George was born in Washington PA on November 2, 1930 to George Meredith Bookman and Dorothy Parke Bookman, and died on Valentine’s Day at the Glen in Willow Valley of Alzheimer’s disease. He graduated from Washington High School, and from there he went to the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington Virginia, George was a hurdler on the VMI track team...

Robert Walter Maines, 69, of Hellertown, PA, passed away February 12, 2016.  He was born in Worcester, MA on June 18, 1946. Bob was the son of the late Walter and Louise Maines, Jr.  He was predeceased on May 16, 2013 by his wife of 17 years, Sherleen Hahn Maines.Bob attended Cherry Hill High School West, Cherry Hill, N.J. and...

The Rev. John L. Strube, Jr., 88, a resident of Luther Acres, Lititz, PA, entered the Church Triumphant on Wednesday, February 10, 2016.He was married 64 years to Janet Lois Myers Strube.  Born October 10, 1927 in Lansdowne, MD, he was the son of the late John L. and Marie Weber Strube.Pastor Strube graduated from Catonsville High School in 1944,...

Edward H. Cibula, 69, of Lancaster, passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at Lancaster Regional Hospital.  Born on December 17, 1946 in York, PA, he was the son of the late John F. Cibula, and Annie L. (Roberts) Cibula.Following graduation from Manheim Township High School in 1965, Ed worked as a surveyor for the J.C. Engineering for a...

Shirley A. Killian, 81, of East Petersburg, died Monday, February 8, 2016 at Lancaster General Hospital.She was the wife of the late Arthur “Bill” W. Killian, Jr. who died in 1994.  Born in Lancaster, she was the daughter of the late Arthur and Alice Leaman Mowery.Shirley known as “Nanny” was a homemaker who enjoyed cooking and baking.  She was well...

Helen Marie “Peggie” Miller of Lancaster, PA died on January 26, 2016 just days shy of her 86thbirthday. She was born in Bethlehem, PA on January 31, 1930 to parents Albert Lauber Jr. and Helen Naomi Wilson Lauber. Her older brother Lt. Col. Robert Wilson Lauber died in 1992. Her marriage to James Cobean Miller ended in divorce in 1981....

Grace Irene Gibble, 93, of Elizabethtown PA, went to be with the Lord on February 2nd, 2016, at Hospice & Community Care of Mount Joy, PA.She was the daughter of the late Jamie Hostetter and Jennie Geib Hostetter.She was preceded in death by an infant son, Jay Harold Jr. and her husband Jay Harold Gibble.Surviving are two daughters Judy Ober...

Roger D. Thompson, of Lancaster, PA, died January 3, 2016. He was 90.He was born March 1, 1925 in Cincinnati, OH, and raised there and in Louisville, KY. Roger was the son of the late Harold Higgins Thompson and Mildred Liwrey (Rogers) Thompson.Roger worked at Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and at DuMont Laboratories in Clifton,...