Doris Amelia Witwer

   Doris Amelia Witwer, 96, formerly of Pine Hill, Warwick Township, and most recently of Hummelstown, Dauphin County, passed away on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, at Viva Senior Living, Harrisburg. Born on February 20, 1929, in Millway, she was the daughter of the late Ivan Walter and Irene Alverta (Adams) Leeking. She was the middle of three daughters, her older sister being Marie (Leeking) Ferrell, who died in 2011, and the younger, Shirley (Leeking) Shuffelbottom, of Lancaster Township.

   Doris graduated from Rothsville’s Warwick Township High School in 1947, and shortly thereafter, started working in the office at Raybestos-Manhattan in Manheim, eventually working there for more than 25 years. On January 21, 1950, she married her high school sweetheart, Harold Eby Witwer, and they enjoyed 61 years together before his death in 2011.

  Doris was a kind person who moved gently in the world. She enjoyed all sorts of needlework and made many handcrafted items of the sort that turn a house into a home. Her heart always remained in Rothsville, and she cherished the many friends from her school days and the Jerusalem Lutheran Church community.

  She is survived by a daughter, Denise Witwer Lahr, a son-in-law, Joseph W. Lahr, and three precious granddaughters; Hana (partner, David K. Wood), Merav (husband, Pavel Kogan-Liakhov), and Roni (husband, Matthew LaTorre). She lives on through her namesake and great-granddaughter, Dora Valentina Lahr.

Services will be private with interment in Rothsville Lutheran Cemetery alongside four generations of her ancestors.