Obituary: Ellen L. Hagenbuch passed away on February 27, 2018. Burial will be at Washingtonville Lutheran Church, Washingtonville, PA. Born December 5, 1926 in Turbot Township, Northumberland County to the late Clarence C. and Hannah M. (Sechler) Hagenbuch. She lived in Limestoneville until moving to Milton in 2010 and has been a resident of Milton Nursing and Rehab since 2012.
Ellen was a lifelong and currently the oldest member of Trinity Lutheran Oak Grove Church, Liberty Township where she was baptized January 27, 1928. She was active in the Women of the ELCA and helping with the annual church festival. She graduated with the Class of 1944 from Milton High School. She rarely missed her class reunions.
She was employed at Evangelical Community Hospital for 36 years. Most of those years in the Nursery as an LPN. When she retired in 1991 she was informed that 32,391 babies were born at Evangelical since she started in 1955.
Ellen enjoyed flower gardening and floral arranging, baking Angel food cakes and sharing with many friends, neighbors and family. She also enjoyed hosting her family for Christmas gatherings. She learned to sew in 4-H Club and entered her blue wool coat at the PA Farm Show and took second place in the State. She spent many hours sewing for herself and family at her nine-foot sewing center made by her brother, Wilmer.
She was the last of her immediate family. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by five brothers, Charles, Homer, Wilmer, Lawrence and Lee, Hagenbuch Sr. and two sisters, Florence Robb and Mary Taylor. She was also preceded in death by niece June Marie Robb Fry and nephews Lee, Jr, Larry and Dan Hagenbuch.
She is survived by her nieces and nephews, Gary Hagenbuch and Gail Davis of Massachusetts, Barbara Huffman of Dauphin, Robert Hagenbuch of Missouri, David Hagenbuch of Florida, Mark Hagenbuch of Dillsburg, Nancy Worden of New Jersey, Lynn Hagenbuch of Florida, Alice Helder of Mt. Joy, Leon Hagenbuch of Watsontown, Joseph Robb of Langhorne, Kathleen Shuler, Limestoneville, Carol Dunbar of New Hampshire, Sue Hertzler, Milton and Nevin Taylor, York and many great and great great nieces and nephews.