Monna Louise "Scof" Mumper, 74 years, 2 months, 20 days, quietly passed away Sunday, December 23, 2007 in Penn Hall Nursing Center. Born October 3, 1933 in Gettysburg, she was a daughter of the late Joseph and Hazel Bowling Mumper. She was a 1951 graduate of the Gettysburg High School and a graduate of the York Hospital School of Nursing. Following graduation from nursing school, Miss Mumper was employed as a staff nurse at the former Mont Alto Sanitorium. She received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Pepperdine University in 1977.
Monna was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Air Force in May of 1956. Her many overseas tours in the Air Force included England, France, Germany, Japan, and Anchorage, Alaska, where she was assigned to Air Force hospitals. She was awarded the Legion of Merit while stationed at Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, Alaska. Upon her graduation from the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine in 1966, she received Silver Flight Nurse Wings. As a flight nurse she helped airlift wounded from Vietnam to various Air Force hospitals in the Philippines, Alaska, Puerto Rico, The Panama Canal Zone, Goose Bay, and Labrador. She served 25 years in the US Air Force and retired as a full Colonel in 1981. Miss Mumper was a member of First Lutheran Church in Chambersburg where she served on church council and various committees. She was a Life Member of Charles Nitterhouse VFW Post 1599 and Burt J. Asper American Legion Post 46, both in Chambersburg, and The MOAA Military Officers, Letterkenny Chapter.
She is survived by two sisters, Sandra Curfman of Chambersburg and Jayne Hicken of Kearney, Nebraska, a brother, Albert Mumper of Chambersburg, and a number of nieces and nephews.
Place of Death: Penn Hall Nursing Center, Chambersburg, PA.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 AM Thursday, December 27, 2007 in the Chapel of Thomas L. Geisel Funeral Home, 333 Falling Spring Road, Chambersburg. The Rev. Steven Dorsett will officiate. Interment with military honors by members of the Charles Nitterhouse VFW Post 1599 Honor Guard will follow in Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg. The family will receive friends from 7:00-9:00 PM Wednesday and one hour prior to the service on Thursday in the funeral home.
Monna was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Air Force in May of 1956. Her many overseas tours in the Air Force included England, France, Germany, Japan, and Anchorage, Alaska, where she was assigned to Air Force hospitals. She was awarded the Legion of Merit while stationed at Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, Alaska. Upon her graduation from the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine in 1966, she received Silver Flight Nurse Wings. As a flight nurse she helped airlift wounded from Vietnam to various Air Force hospitals in the Philippines, Alaska, Puerto Rico, The Panama Canal Zone, Goose Bay, and Labrador. She served 25 years in the US Air Force and retired as a full Colonel in 1981. Miss Mumper was a member of First Lutheran Church in Chambersburg where she served on church council and various committees. She was a Life Member of Charles Nitterhouse VFW Post 1599 and Burt J. Asper American Legion Post 46, both in Chambersburg, and The MOAA Military Officers, Letterkenny Chapter.
She is survived by two sisters, Sandra Curfman of Chambersburg and Jayne Hicken of Kearney, Nebraska, a brother, Albert Mumper of Chambersburg, and a number of nieces and nephews.
Place of Death: Penn Hall Nursing Center, Chambersburg, PA.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 AM Thursday, December 27, 2007 in the Chapel of Thomas L. Geisel Funeral Home, 333 Falling Spring Road, Chambersburg. The Rev. Steven Dorsett will officiate. Interment with military honors by members of the Charles Nitterhouse VFW Post 1599 Honor Guard will follow in Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg. The family will receive friends from 7:00-9:00 PM Wednesday and one hour prior to the service on Thursday in the funeral home.
Monna Louise "Scof" Mumper, 74 years, 2 months, 20 days, quietly passed away Sunday, December 23, 2007 in Penn Hall Nursing Center. Born October 3, 1933 in Gettysburg, she was a daughter of the late Joseph and Hazel Bowling Mumper. She was a 1951 graduate of the Gettysburg High School and a graduate of the York Hospital School of Nursing. Following graduation from nursing school, Miss Mumper was employed as a staff nurse at the former Mont Alto Sanitorium. She received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Pepperdine University in 1977.
Monna was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Air Force in May of 1956. Her many overseas tours in the Air Force included England, France, Germany, Japan, and Anchorage, Alaska, where she was assigned to Air Force hospitals. She was awarded the Legion of Merit while stationed at Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, Alaska. Upon her graduation from the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine in 1966, she received Silver Flight Nurse Wings. As a flight nurse she helped airlift wounded from Vietnam to various Air Force hospitals in the Philippines, Alaska, Puerto Rico, The Panama Canal Zone, Goose Bay, and Labrador. She served 25 years in the US Air Force and retired as a full Colonel in 1981. Miss Mumper was a member of First Lutheran Church in Chambersburg where she served on church council and various committees. She was a Life Member of Charles Nitterhouse VFW Post 1599 and Burt J. Asper American Legion Post 46, both in Chambersburg, and The MOAA Military Officers, Letterkenny Chapter.
She is survived by two sisters, Sandra Curfman of Chambersburg and Jayne Hicken of Kearney, Nebraska, a brother, Albert Mumper of Chambersburg, and a number of nieces and nephews.
Place of Death: Penn Hall Nursing Center, Chambersburg, PA.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 AM Thursday, December 27, 2007 in the Chapel of Thomas L. Geisel Funeral Home, 333 Falling Spring Road, Chambersburg. The Rev. Steven Dorsett will officiate. Interment with military honors by members of the Charles Nitterhouse VFW Post 1599 Honor Guard will follow in Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg. The family will receive friends from 7:00-9:00 PM Wednesday and one hour prior to the service on Thursday in the funeral home.
Monna was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Air Force in May of 1956. Her many overseas tours in the Air Force included England, France, Germany, Japan, and Anchorage, Alaska, where she was assigned to Air Force hospitals. She was awarded the Legion of Merit while stationed at Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, Alaska. Upon her graduation from the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine in 1966, she received Silver Flight Nurse Wings. As a flight nurse she helped airlift wounded from Vietnam to various Air Force hospitals in the Philippines, Alaska, Puerto Rico, The Panama Canal Zone, Goose Bay, and Labrador. She served 25 years in the US Air Force and retired as a full Colonel in 1981. Miss Mumper was a member of First Lutheran Church in Chambersburg where she served on church council and various committees. She was a Life Member of Charles Nitterhouse VFW Post 1599 and Burt J. Asper American Legion Post 46, both in Chambersburg, and The MOAA Military Officers, Letterkenny Chapter.
She is survived by two sisters, Sandra Curfman of Chambersburg and Jayne Hicken of Kearney, Nebraska, a brother, Albert Mumper of Chambersburg, and a number of nieces and nephews.
Place of Death: Penn Hall Nursing Center, Chambersburg, PA.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 AM Thursday, December 27, 2007 in the Chapel of Thomas L. Geisel Funeral Home, 333 Falling Spring Road, Chambersburg. The Rev. Steven Dorsett will officiate. Interment with military honors by members of the Charles Nitterhouse VFW Post 1599 Honor Guard will follow in Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg. The family will receive friends from 7:00-9:00 PM Wednesday and one hour prior to the service on Thursday in the funeral home.
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