lit a candle 2h agomy mom called me this morning before I even had coffee here. she said Mrs. Ohler passed and I didn't know what to say, I just remembered her peach pies from the one summer we stayed with the Hanns.
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Marie M. Ohler was a wife, mother and grandmother from the Emmitsburg, Maryland area who spent her later years in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. She was not a public figure in the conventional sense of politics, entertainment or business, and no Wikipedia biography existed for her before her death. She is remembered…
Marie M. Ohler was a wife, mother and grandmother from the Emmitsburg, Maryland area who spent her later years in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. She was not a public figure in the conventional sense of politics, entertainment or business, and no Wikipedia biography existed for her before her death. She is remembered in her community and by her family chiefly for the private, everyday life she built: as a devoted gardener and a baker whose kitchen was a center of family gatherings.
She was born Marie Margaret Sanders on July 4, 1941, in Emmitsburg, Maryland, the daughter of Regis and Nadine Sanders, both of whom predeceased her. She married Charles "Sonny" R. Ohler, who also predeceased her, and the couple raised a family together that included children from her earlier life as a Hann and her life as an Ohler.
Family and neighbors who knew her described a woman whose days were shaped by her garden and her baking, interests that, according to her obituary, defined how she was best known among those close to her. She outlived several of her own children, a loss that would have marked her later years profoundly: her daughters Carol "Susie" Hann and Sharon Hann, her son Timothy "Timmie" Hann, and her stepson Michael Ohler all died before she did, as did her siblings Sterling, Harold and Roland Sanders.
Marie M. Ohler died on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, at the Shippensburg Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, at the age of 85. Her death was announced through an obituary published by the Myers-Durboraw Funeral Home of Taneytown, Maryland, and carried in local outlets including The Frederick News-Post. No cause of death has been made public.
She is survived by her son, Paul Hann, Sr., along with nine grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews, who are expected to gather for a visitation and funeral service in the coming days. Tributes to her so far have come through family and community channels rather than public statements, reflecting the private nature of the life she led.
Biography adapted from News reports and the sources cited on this page; death reported by Legacy | Obituary.
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that peach pie recipe got passed down in a lot of families, I heard