Doris-Jean Ashman, 93

March 07, 2017

Doris-Jean Ashman, 93, of Juniper Village, Mount Joy and longtime resident of Lancaster, PA and Summit, NJ, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at Pleasant View Retirement Community. Doris-Jean was born in Newark, NJ to the late Philip John Sievering and Neva Sarah (Croselmier) Sievering. Doris-Jean’s husband of 64 years, Alfred “Al” Owen Ashman, Jr. died in 2011.

DorisJean, affectionately also know as “DJ” and “Dottie”, graduated from Bucknell University in 1945 and ran the Summit Medical Center’s blood work lab for a short while. A homemaker and care-taker for most of her adult life, Doris-Jean was an avid Girl Scout leader, Regional Coordinator and Cookie Sale Chairperson for Essex County, NJ. She and her husband were avid bird watchers and loved participating in sports, especially tennis, golf, skiing, swimming, sailing, and camping. They square danced their way across the country at the Challenge Level. She and her husband moved to Lancaster in 1976 and she worked for Welcome Wagon in Lancaster County.

Doris-Jean is survived by her three daughters: Dorothy Ashman of Bloomsburg, Linda Ashman Burkhart (Ernie) of Eldersburg, Maryland, and Virginia Ashman Walsh (Michael) of Severna Park, Maryland; five grandchildren: Philip Shiva Mandel of Los Angeles, California; Benjamin Vishnu Mandel of Sausalito, California; Jacob Burkhart (Julie) of Pacifica, California; Alicia Burkhart Vogt (Anthony) of Jacksonville, Florida; Ian Christopher Gabriel Walsh (Eden) of Fort Campbell, Kentucky; and great-grandchild Leowen Burkhart of Pacifica, California. She was preceded in death by one sister, Barbara Claire Coleman, and one brother, Philip John Sievering, Jr.

Celebration of Life Services will be held on Saturday, March 11, 2017 at 2 PM at Spacht-Snyder Family Funeral Home, 127 S. Broad St., Lititz, PA 17543. A viewing will be held from 1 to 2 PM at the funeral home. Interment will take place 12 PM, Sunday, March 12, 2017 at Towamensing Cemetery, Palmerton, PA.