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Timothy Krebs

Timothy Krebs

Mar 23, 2019

Timothy W. Krebs, 54, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, March 23, 2019 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born August 12, 1964 in Baltimore, MD, he was a son of Mary H. Angello Sanders of Fairfield and David H. Krebs of Littlestown. He was a graduate of the Littlestown Area Senior High School and went on to earn a...

Shirley West

Shirley West

Mar 23, 2019

Shirley L. West, 80, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Saturday, March 23, 2019 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born October 16, 1938 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Howard M. and Caroline B. Gipe West. Shirley was a 1956 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School and had been employed as a secretary at Wilson College. She...

Allen Smetzer

Allen Smetzer

Mar 23, 2019

Allen Emmert Smetzer, age 94, of Chambersburg PA, passed from this life on Saturday, March 23, 2019, and entered into His Eternal Rest. He was born in Waynesboro PA, to George E. and Thelma L. (Harne) Smetzer. He grew up in Waynesboro, and was a 1942 graduate of the Waynesboro High School. Allen enlisted in the United States Army in...

Loretta Chaney

Loretta Chaney

Mar 20, 2019

Loretta M. Chaney, 80, of Chambersburg, passed away on Wednesday, March 20, 2019. Born June 24, 1938 in Baltimore, MD, she was a daughter of the late Herbert C. and Mildred Russell Morrow. Loretta was a graduate of Milford Mill High School in Baltimore County. She was employed as an office manager at Boyle Buick for 15 years until her...

Harold Burkholder

Harold Burkholder

Mar 16, 2019

Harold V. Burkholder, 85 of Chambersburg, PA, passed peacefully on Saturday evening, March 16, 2019. Born March 11, 1934 in Marion, PA, he was a son of the late Mildred M. Burkholder and was raised by Ralph and Julia Burkholder in Fayetteville, PA. He worked as an international representative with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) prior to his...

Mary Joann Marshall

Mary Joann Marshall

Mar 14, 2019

Mary Joann Marshall, 87, of Chambersburg, passed away on Thursday, March 14, 2019 at her home. Born March 10, 1932 in East Liberty, OH, she was the daughter of the late Gerald and Mary Horn Delong. Her beloved husband, Thomas O. Marshall, Jr., preceded her in death on January 15, 2019. A 1950 graduate of East Liberty High School, she...

James Montoy

James Montoy

Mar 13, 2019

James “Jim” Montoy, 55, of Greencastle, PA, passed away Wednesday, March 13, 2019 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in Chambersburg. Born June 22, 1963 at Fort Eustis, VA, he was a son of Norman Montoy of Waynesboro, PA and the late Betty J. Chimileski Montoy. Jim was a 1981 graduate of the Waynesboro Area Senior High School and...

Regina Thomas

Regina Thomas

Mar 12, 2019

Regina M. Thomas, age 88, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, at Menno Haven. Born December 25, 1930, in Chambersburg, PA, she was the daughter of the late Earl and Mary Peters Fogal. Mrs. Thomas was a 1949 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School. She was a homemaker most of her adult life, caring for...

Anna Cook

Anna Cook

Mar 12, 2019

Anna S. Cook, age 85, of Scotland, PA, passed away on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, at Penn Hall Nursing Center. Born December 1, 1933, in South Mountain, PA, she was the daughter of the late Curvin W. and Lottie Shaffer Stambaugh. Mrs. Cook was a 1952 graduate of the former Quincy High School. She had an extensive career working in...

Randy Plyler

Randy Plyler

Mar 12, 2019

Randy James Plyler, age 62, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away at the Chambersburg Hospital on Tuesday, March 12, 2019. Born May 22, 1956, in Chambersburg, PA, he was the son of Elisabeth Lesher Plyler and the late James Plyler. Randy was a 1974 graduate of CASHS. He went on to work for Volvo Construction Equipment, where he worked for 25...

Edna Miller

Edna Miller

Mar 11, 2019

Edna Mae Miller, 96, formerly of Chambersburg, died on Monday, March 11, 2019 in Melbourne, Florida. Born in 1922 in Lima, Ohio, to George and Clara Kempher, she graduated from the schools of Allen County, Ohio, and worked in the war effort at Westinghouse Corporation helping to build radios for military aircraft. On June 24, 1944, at Cairo, Ohio, she...

Gene Gellman

Gene Gellman

Mar 10, 2019

GENE A. GELLMAN (January 19, 1947 – March 10, 2019) FAYETTEVILLE, PA and THE VILLAGES, FL -- Gene Gellman passed away peacefully at his Fayetteville home on Sunday, March 10 at the age of 72. Born in Richmond Borough, New York, NY, he was the son of the late Irving and Vesta C. (Rauber) Gellman. Gene is survived by his...

Georgianna Rosenberry

Georgianna Rosenberry

Mar 9, 2019

It breaks our hearts to say our mother, Georgianna (Goodhart) Rosenberry, passed away on Saturday, March 9, 2019. Born May 3, 1945 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Betty V. Holtry Hughes and George C. Goodhart. Georgianna was a 1964 CASHS graduate. She married her high school sweetheart, Robert Allen Rosenberry, whom preceded her in death on...

Lawrence Rosenberry

Lawrence Rosenberry

Mar 8, 2019

Lawrence H. Rosenberry, Jr., 83, of Chambersburg, passed away peacefully Friday morning, March 8, 2019 at Menno Haven while surrounded by his family. Born October 10, 1935 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Lawrence H., Sr. and Zelda Guyer Rosenberry. He was a 1954 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School and served with the United States...

Doris Hoffman

Doris Hoffman

Mar 8, 2019

Doris J. Hoffman, 82, of Fayetteville, PA passed away on Friday, March 8, 2019 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born July 13, 1936 in Everett, PA, she was a daughter of the late Joseph “Roy” Dishong and Florence (Weyant) Dishong. Her beloved husband, Earl D. Hoffman, preceded her in death on July 4, 1985. Doris was a 1954 graduate of Everett...

Robert Palmer

Robert Palmer

Mar 7, 2019

Robert M. Palmer, 93, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday morning, March 7, 2019 at his home. Born May 30, 1925 in Letterkenny Township, Franklin County, he was a son of the late Jonas Charles and Sarah Grace Palmer. He was a 1943 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School and served with the US Army in the...

John Shields

John Shields

Mar 6, 2019

John Harvey Shields, age 88, of Scotland, passed away on Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born in Shippensburg on October12, 1930, he was the son of the late John Orville Shields and Pearl Laura Coleman Shields. Known as John by his co-workers, he worked in the construction industry as a heavy equipment operator. He was a life...

Joyce Binggeli

Joyce Binggeli

Mar 4, 2019

Joyce Elaine Reineman Binggeli, 82, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away Monday morning, March 4, 2019 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born February 5, 1937 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Daniel S. and Merium G. Geiman Reineman. Joyce was a 1955 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School and had the distinction of being the first class...

Joann Hege

Joann Hege

Mar 2, 2019

Joann Ida Hege, age 90, of Chambersburg, passed away in the early morning hours on March 2, 2019 at The Shook Home. Born September 17, 1928 near Dayton, Ohio, she was the daughter of Lawrence and Margaret Hissong Beery. She was married to Marlin Good Hege on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1956. She was a member of the Old German...

Lauren "Larry" Etter

Lauren "Larry" Etter

Mar 2, 2019

Lauren “Larry” Earl Etter age 80, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 2, 2019, with his family by his side at Chambers Pointe Nursing Center. Born October 29, 1938, in Chambersburg, PA, he was the son of the late Earl Clayton and Edith Gossard Etter. A 1956 graduate of CASHS, Larry went on to serve honorably in...

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