Funeral Services Announced for Penn State Student

The funeral service has been announced for a Penn State student who was electrocuted and fell from a roof in State College on Friday.

Shannon Angel Mathers, 21, of Warrington, Pa., was on the roof of a house near the corner of South Barnard Street and West College Avenue at about 6 p.m. Friday when she touched a high voltage power line and fell to the ground. Centre County Coroner Scott Sayers conducted an autopsy on Saturday and determined she had died of electrocution.

According to an obituary, relatives and friends are invited to a funeral mass 11 a.m. on Friday at St. Robert Bellarmine Church, 856 Euclid Avenue in Warrington. The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. Thursday at the Shelly Funeral Home, 1460 Easton Road in Warrington, and 10-11 am Friday at the church. Interment will follow mass in Lawnview Cemetery.

Mathers graduated from Central Bucks South High School where she was active in symphonic band and choir. While at Penn State, where she was studying biobehavioral health, Mathers volunteered as an emergency medical technician with Centre LifeLink EMS and worked at Mount Nittany Medical Center and Bradley’s Steaks and Hoagies.

‘Shannon’s death was nothing short of a tragedy, that leaves me in a state of disbelief,’ Bradley’s general manager Ben Lippincott said in a post on the restaurant’s Facebook page. ‘She was a beacon at Bradley’s that brought many of you to the store, and made it a better place to be a part of… Shannon’s charm, sense of humor, and energy will be missed.’

Centre LifeLink, where Mathers responded to 34 calls and volunteered more than 100 hours as an EMT in the past year, also paid tribute.

‘Shannon was a bright young woman with a polite and easy going personality, and had planned on a future in medicine,’ a Facebook post stated. ‘Our deepest sympathies are with her parents, other family members, and friends in their time of mourning.’ 

Mathers is survived by her parents, sister and grandparents. 

In lie of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Leukemia and Lymphoma Society or the Centre Lifelink EMS, PO Box 272, State College, PA 16804.