STORY BY DUANE GOOD • DESIGN BY MANDI TRAWITZ It was a routine errand – bring her sister a cookout grill, with some coupons thrown in on the side. Nothing that would raise any red flags. Tracy Marie Kroh completed that errand, dropping the items off on the porch at ...
What’s in This Week’s Issue? This week’s Sentinel goes on sale Tuesday morning, July 30 at all regular retail outlets. Among the highlights: • A chronicle of the Tracy Kroh investigation. • Berrysburg/Mifflin bicentennial event begins. • Halifax board to take vote on school closing. • L&W wins teener softball title.
TREMONT • Donald David Hatter Sr., 60, died July 20 at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Cedar Crest - Allentown. He was born Sept. 20, 1958, in Pottsville, a son of Merwin and Nancy Miller Hatter of Donaldson. He was a 1976 graduate of Pine Grove High School. He was employed by ...
MILLERSBURG • Patsy L. Deppen, 77, of Millersburg, died July 25, 2019, at Premier at Susquehanna Village. She was born March 17, 1942, in Upper Paxton Twp., the daughter of the late Russell and Margaret (Hoy) Enders. Patsy was the wife of Ronald E. Deppen. She worked in the local shoe ...
NORFOLK, Va. • Richard Steven Umholtz, 69, died July 21 in Norfolk, Va. He was born May 14, 1950, in Berrysburg, a son of the late Leo and Ruth Deibert Umholtz. He was a graduate of Upper Dauphin Area High School and completed his studies at Electronics Institute of Harrisonburg, ...
WILLIAMSTOWN • Gary Lee Fisher, 61, died July 21 at his residence. He was born Aug. 21, 1957, in Pottsville, a son of the late Frank Sr. and Darlene Zerembo Fisher. He was a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard 131st Transportation Company, Williamstown, where he was deployed to Afghanistan. ...
CEDAR HILL, Texas • Bettie Platt Miller of Cedar Hill, Texas, a former longtime resident of Lykens, Pa., passed away July 22, 2019. She was born July 22, 1931, to Edgar Gilmore Platt and Sarah Lippencott Platt. Prior to her marriage to George D. Miller, she was an X-ray technician at ...
KLINGERSTOWN • Charles Albert “Junior” Schaeffer, 83, died July 23. He was born March 14, 1936, in Butler Twp., a son of the late Charles and Edna Haas Schaeffer. He was a graduate of Hegins Twp. High School. He worked as a farmer for 58 years at Schaeffer Farms. He ...
MILLERSBURG • Robert E. Hoy Sr., 86, of Mechanicsburg, died July 25 at Geisinger Holy Spirit. He was born Dec. 31, 1932, in Millersburg, the son of the late Lester and Mary (Miller) Hoy. He worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad until the flood of 1972, and was a part-time clerk ...
DAUPHIN • Dr. Marian M. Conrad passed away at her home Thursday, July 25, 2019. She was born March 17, 1934, in Harrisburg Hospital, and was a daughter of Ruth M. (Harman) Maurer. She graduated from Lykens High School class of 1952, Polyclinic School of Nursing 1955 where she received ...
