AGNES B. SCHROCK
SALISBURY, Pa. - Agnes B. Schrock, 84, of Gay St., Salisbury, died Friday, Nov. 20, 1998, at the Devlin Manor Nursing Home, Cumberland, Md.
Born Feb. 17, 1914, at Pocahontas, she was the daughter of the late Harvey and Belinda (Baer) Miller. She also was preceded in death by her husband, Homer Schrock, in 1996; four brothers, Albert, Carl, George and Ray Miller; and five sisters, Mildred Dietle, Alma Dietle, Edith Shultz, Maggie Williams and Ethel Miller.
Mrs. Schrock was a homemaker and a presser with Stotler's Dry Cleaners, Salisbury. She was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, Salisbury.
Surviving are one daughter, Lois J. Cain and husband Robert, Cumberland; one brother, Harvey Miller, Schellsburg; two sisters, Emma Meese, Salisbury, and Gladys Pope, Meyersdale; and one grandson, Kevin Cain.
Friends will be received at the Newman Funeral Homes, P.A., Grantsville, Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Services will be conducted at the Greenville Lutheran Church on Monday at 1 p.m. with the Rev. David E. Fetter officiating.
The body will be taken to the church at noon.
Interment will be in the Greenville cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to St. John's Lutheran Church, Salisbury.
JOHN L. SHAFFER
HYNDMAN, Pa. - John L. Shaffer, 58, of Market Street, Hyndman, died Sunday, April 5, 1998, at Sacred Heart Hospital, Cumberland, Md.
Born Aug. 10, 1939, in Cumberland, he was a son of the late Claude B. and Nellie M. (Bruck) Shaffer. He also was preceded in death by a brother, Robert J. Shaffer, in 1959.
On July 1, 1967, in Hyndman, he married
the former Charlotte M. Reed, who survives, along with a son, Andrew R. Shaffer of Mechanicsburg; six brothers, Earl B. Shaffer, Steve C. Shaffer, Claude H. "Jitter" Shaffer, Douglas R. Shaffer, Paul R. "Dick" Shaffer and Glenn E. "Pug" Shaffer, all of Hyndman; five sisters, Mona L. "Peggy" Atwood, Wanda M. Bistline and Joyce E. Pensyl, all of Hyndman, Betty M. Ours, Chicago, Ill., and Marce J. Johnston, Dunn, N.C.; seven nephews; and 14 nieces.
Mr. Shaffer was employed at the Hedstrom Corporation in Bedford and formerly had been employed at the Amcelle Plant of the Celanese Corporation of America in Cumberland. He had served with the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.
He was a member of the First Avenue United Methodist Church; president of the Hyndman Rod and Gun Club; and former member of the Hyndman Volunteer Fire Department. He was an avid hunter, fisherman and outdoorsman.
Friends will be received at the Harvey H. Zeigler Funeral Home, Hyndman, on Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 6 to 9 p.m.
Services will be conducted at the funeral home on Wednesday at 11 a.m. with the Student Pastor Steven L. Craft and the Rev. David A. Klink officiating. Interment will be in the Hyndman cemetery.
Memorials may be sent to the Hyndman Rod and Gun Club, Hyndman, PA 15545.
RICHARD SHIPLEY SR.
BUFFALO MILLS, Pa. - Richard Philip Shipley Sr., 81, of R.D. #1, Box 7, Buffalo Mills, died Sunday, July 12, 1998, at Sacred Heart Hospital, Cumberland, Md.
Born Jan. 25, 1917, at Artemas, he was the son of the late Clara V. (Shaffer) and Joseph O. Shipley. A loving granddaughter, Melissa Anna Shipley, three brothers, and two sisters also preceded him in death.
Mr. Shipley was a retired Bethlehem Steel worker and was a retired dairy farmer. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was decorated following campaigns at Normandy, in the Ardennes and Central Europe.
He is survived by his beloved wife of 57 years, Dora (Ware) Shipley, whom he married
on Feb. 27, 1941. He also is survived by sons, Richard, and wife, Beverly, David Michael, and fiancee, Debra Krieger, and Jeffrey Lee, and wife, Barbara, all of Buffalo Mills; son, Samuel Joseph, and fiancee, Diana Evans, Harrisburg; daughters, Terry, wife of John Miller, Linda, wife of Harold "Pete" Milburn, Bonnie McKenzie, and Robin, wife of Jim Aldridge, all of Cumberland; sisters, Ada Fletcher, Somerset, and Freda, wife of Joe Harvey, Cumberland; 13 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.
Friends will be received at the Harvey H. Zeigler Funeral Home on Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. and on Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Services will be conducted at the funeral home on Thursday at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Bernard Yost officiating.
Mr. Shipley's grandsons, Richie Milburn, Chris Milburn, John Miller, Gary McKenzie, Richard D. Shipley and Nathan Aldridge, will serve as pallbearers.
Interment will be in Madley cemetery following graveside military services.
GLEN RICHARD "MOSE" SHIPWAY SR.
CUMBERLAND - Glen Richard "Mose" Shipway Sr., of Cumberland died Monday at Memorial Hospital. He was 75.
Born Aug. 7, 1922, in Inglesmith, PA, Shipway - known throughout his life as "Mose" - was the youngest son of the late John Thomas and Samantha Belle (Smith) Shipway of Green Ridge Mountain. He was preceded in death by brothers Eldon, John, Kenneth, and Emmert, and sister Elma Shipway Everline.
Shipway spent his youth on Green Ridge, shuttling between school in Flintstone and West Palm Beach (FL), where his family spent winters from 1929 until the early 1950s. He graduated from Flintstone School in 1940.
Shipway served with the Mississippi Volunteers in the U.S. Army (Artillery) during World War II. He saw action in North Africa and Europe, fighting from Anzio through Italy, France, Germany and Czechoslovakia.
A skilled craftsman who could "fix anything," Shipway joined the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 37 in 1953 and left his mark on projects ranging from Rocky Gap Dam to Allegany Community College. For the last years of his career, he worked as a diesel mechanic on road-building equipment for I.A. Construction Company. He retired in 1984.
He added his labor to many organizations that represented his beliefs, including the Potomac Lodge #100 A.F. and A.M., Scottish Rite Bodies, Ali Ghan Shrine Temple, Ali Ghan Drum and Bugle Corps (past president), Shepherd's Unit, Tall Cedars of Lebanon Algonquin Forest #140, Cumberland Outdoor Club, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #1411 (Honor Guard), American Legion Fort Cumberland Post #13, Eagles Club and Good Fellowship Social Club.
Shipway is survived by his wife of 55 years, Myrtle V. (Bourckel) Shipway; son Glen R. Shipway Jr. and wife Barbara Austin of Southbury, CT, daughter Jeannette V. (Shipway) Snyder and husband Elwood of Newark, DE; daughter Lois A. Shipway of Baltimore; two grandsons, John Adam Shipway and wife Tammy of Charlotte, NC, and Christopher Lee Snyder of Richmond, VA; great-grandsons Connor Adam and Pierce Adrian Shipway of Charlotte, NC; brother Harry E. Shipway and wife Jane of Green Ridge Mountain; and many nieces and nephews.
The family will receive visitors today at Hafer Funeral Home, 1302 National Highway, from 2 to 4 pm. Friends from the Ali Ghan Drum and Bugle Corps will assemble at 3 pm. A second viewing will run from 7-9 pm with a memorial tribute by Potomac Lodge #100 A.F. and A.M. beginning at 7:30
Hafer Funeral Home will be the site of the funeral service Thursday at 10 a.m., officiated by the Rev. Lowell Garland. Soloist Dave Rice, a longtime friend from the Outdoor Club, will say good-bye with his choral presentation of The Lord's Prayer, much loved by Shipway and his family. Pallbearers will be nephews William Shipway and Richard Shipway, great-nephew Timothy Shipway, and friends Jimmy Graham and Jim McDonald of the Cumberland Outdoor Club and Robert Powell of the Ali Ghan Drum and Bugle Corps. Honorary pallbearers represent his many dear friends and loyal family: John "Jackie" Jones, Rick Robinson, Ronald Shipway, Guy True and members of the Ali Ghan Drum and Bugle Corps with whom he shared many years of happy fellowship and service.
Interment will be at Fairview cemetery, Inglesmith, PA, in sight of the house where he was born. Graveside military honors will be accorded by the Combined Veterans Honor Guard of Cumberland. Family and friends are invited to a luncheon and celebration of his life at 1 pm at the Ali Ghan Drum and Bugle Corps building.
Husband, father, brother, uncle, friend, Mose will be missed by all. May the wind be always at your back, Pop, and until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
SARAH L. THOMAS
HYNDMAN, Pa. - Sarah Lovina Thomas, 83, of Palo Alto Road, Hyndman, died Saturday, Oct. 31, 1998, at Sacred Heart Hospital, Cumberland, Md.
Born June 26, 1915, in Southampton Township, Somerset County, she was the daughter of the late Ulysses G. and Effie Jane (Shroyer) Custer.
Mrs. Thomas is survived by daughters Effie A. Brown, Buffalo, N.Y., Eleanor L. Stair, fiancee of Joe Klucher, New Paris; Shelby J., wife of John Gable, Cresaptown, Md., Roberta J., wife of the late Robert Boland, Easley, S.C., and Leetta F., wife of Ronald, Smith, Depew, N.Y.; sister Mary E. Emerick, R.D. #1, Hyndman; sisters-in-law, Alma Custer, R.D. #1, Hyndman, and Hazel, wife of Robert Farr, San Antonio, Texas; 13 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
In November 1983, Mrs. Thomas was preceded in death by her husband of 48 years, Edward E. Thomas. She was also preceded in death by a brother, Ray A. Custer; and a granddaughter, Deanna Boland.
Mrs. Thomas was a homemaker. She attended Faith Community Church, Hyndman, and she was a member of Hyndman Grange #1954 and the Hyndman Senior Citizens.
Friends will be received at the Harvey H. Zeigler Funeral Home, Hyndman, on Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. and on Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Services will be conducted at the funeral home on Wednesday at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Terry L. Campbell officiating.
Interment will be in Comps cemetery, Southampton Township, Somerset County.
THOMAS H. UPOLE JR.
KATHLEEN JOY YODER
SALISBURY, Pa. - Thomas Howard Upole Jr., 51, and his stepdaughter, Kathleen Joy Yoder, 15, both of 547 Fisher Road, Salisbury, died Thursday, June 4, 1998, at their residence as a result of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.
Mr. Upole was born Aug. 9, 1946, in Oakland, Md., a son of Thomas Howard Upole Sr. and Vauda Marie (Bolyard) Upole, of Oakland. He was a member of Maranatha Assembly of God, Grantsville, Md., and was a foreman for the Garrett County Roads Department. He was a member of Grantsville Lions Club and was an AFSCME representative for his local union. He also coached Grantsville Pony League teams. Mr. Upole was an active member of the National Guard.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by his wife, Joy Marie (Yoder) Upole, Grantsville; a son, Donn Steven Upole, Grantsville; three daughters, Marcie Lynn Beiler and Lori Ann Upole, both of Grantsville, and Rhonda Kay Oates, Buckhannon, W.Va.; a stepson, Michael Yoder, Salisbury, Pa.; a stepdaughter, Cynthia Klass, North Huntingdon, Pa.; three brothers, Harold and Charles Upole, both of Crellin, Md., Donald Upole, Oakland,; a half brother, Derek Gallagher, Frederick, Md.; two sisters, Margaret Landon, Alliance, Ohio, and Linda Dawson, Deer Park, Md.; five grandchildren; and two step-grandchildren.
Kathleen was born May 28, 1983, in Meyersdale, Pa., a daughter of Mark W. Yoder, Felton, Pa., and Joy Marie (Yoder) Upole, Salisbury. She was a 9th grade student at Salisbury-Elk Lick High School where she played basketball, was a member of the chorus and was a staff member of the newspaper. She also played AYSO Soccer. She was preceded in death by her stepfather, Thomas H. Upole Jr.
In addition to her parents, she is survived by her stepmother, Debora D. Yoder, Felton, Pa.; a brother, Michael Yoder, Salisbury, Pa.; a sister, Cynthia Klass, North Huntingdon, Pa.; two stepbrothers, Donn S. Upole, Grantsville, Md., and Jeremy R. Staines, Felton, Pa.; four stepsisters, Marcie L. Beiler and Lori A. Upole, both of Grantsville, Md., Rhonda K. Oates, Buckhannon, W.Va., and Kimberly L. Staines, Felton, Pa.; her maternal grandparents, Creed and Miriam Yoder, Meyersdale, Pa., and her paternal grandparents, Crist and Rhoda Yoder, Grantsville.
Friends will be received for Mr. Upole and Miss Yoder at the Newman Funeral Home, Grantsville, Md., on Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Joint funeral services will be conducted on Monday at 10 a.m. in the funeral home with Pastors Dewayne and Sharon Johnson officiating. Interment will be in Springs cemetery.
Expressions of sympathy for Mr. Upole may be directed to Northern Garrett County High School Scholarship Fund and those for Miss Yoder may be directed to the Salisbury-Elk Lick High School Scholarship Fund, in care of the funeral home.
