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Local Obituaries for Chambersburg, PA & Greater Franklin County

Freddie Jordan

Freddie Jordan

Jan 20, 2017

Freddie Devior Jordan, 82, of Chambersburg, PA and formerly of Far Rockaway, Queens, NY, passed Friday, January 20, 2017 at Chambersburg Hospital. Born August 13, 1934 in Butler County, AL, he was a son of the late Henry and Ella Banks Jordan. Freddie was an auto mechanic and an ordained minister. He had a great love for his family and...

Helen Mahon

Helen Mahon

Jan 19, 2017

Helen West Mahon, age 91, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Thursday, January 19, 2017, at Menno Haven. Born March, 1925, in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Paul and Helen Matthews West. Mrs. Mahon was a 1943 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School. She had attended business school and went to work for the Department of...

Thomas Harrelson

Thomas Harrelson

Jan 19, 2017

Thomas L. Harrelson, age 70, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away at the Chambersburg Hospital on Thursday, January 19, 2017. Born September 12, 1946, in Chambersburg, he was the son of E. Jane Harrelson and the late Leon Harrelson. A 1964 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School, Tom went to study music and english literature at West Chester College....

Pauline Hammond

Pauline Hammond

Jan 18, 2017

Pauline M. Hammond, age 91, a resident at Woodland Retirement Home in Orbisonia, and formerly of Fannettsburg, PA, passed away on Wednesday, January 18, 2017. Born February 5, 1925, in Ft. Loudon, PA, she was the daughter of the late Emma Yeager Murray. A homemaker most of her life, Mrs. Hammond enjoyed baking, singing, watching Cardinals, and collecting Angels. As...

Irvene "Jake" Yeager

Irvene "Jake" Yeager

Jan 18, 2017

Irvene M. “Jake” Yeager, 84, of Chambersburg, passed away on Wednesday, January 18, 2017, in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born October 25, 1932, in St. Thomas, he was a son of the late Merle David and Louise Elizabeth Leininger Yeager. A U.S. Army veteran, Jake served honorably during the Korean Conflict. Following his service he was employed as a Greyhound bus...

Mary Miller

Mary Miller

Jan 15, 2017

Mary Jane Miller, 72, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Sunday, January 15, 2017 at Hershey Medical Center. Born December 22, 1944 in Cleversburg, PA, she was a daughter of the late Fred Lauver, Sr. and the late Betty Lehman Black. She was a graduate of the former Chambersburg High School and was a homemaker most of her life. She and...

Henry Betz

Henry Betz

Jan 15, 2017

Henry V. Betz, age 94, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Sunday, January 15, 2017 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born in Jersey City, NJ on June 5, 1922, he was the son of the late Henry and Lillian Vollmer Betz. A U.S. Army veteran, Mr. Betz served honorably during WWII from 1942 – 1946. Mr. Betz earned both his Bachelor’s...

Elva Stambaugh

Elva Stambaugh

Jan 15, 2017

Elva G. Stambaugh, 96, a resident of the Shook Home and formerly of North Franklin Street in Chambersburg, passed away Sunday morning, January 15, 2017 at the nursing home. Born March 12, 1920, in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late David W. and Carrie Grace Rife Kunkle. Mrs. Stambaugh was a 1938 graduate of the former Chambersburg High...

Charles Caldwell

Charles Caldwell

Jan 15, 2017

Charles R. Caldwell, 79, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away Sunday morning, January 15, 2017 at York Hospital. Born October 1, 1937 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Walter T. Caldwell and Janice Stoner Caldwell Schaffe. He served honorably with the US Air Force and retired from the former James River Company in Chambersburg, retiring after 45 years...

Thelma Campbell

Thelma Campbell

Jan 15, 2017

Thelma M. Campbell, 93, of Chambersburg, passed away on Sunday morning, January 15, 2017 at Shook Home. Born July 29, 1923 in Letterkenny Township, she was a daughter of the late Benjamin L. and Rosa Zeek Landis. Her husband of 50 years, Hays M. Campbell, preceded her in death on July 12, 2003. Thelma was a 1943 graduate of the...

Lorraine Koons

Lorraine Koons

Jan 11, 2017

Lorraine E. Koons, 92, of Chambersburg, died on Wednesday evening January 11, 2017 at Menno Haven. Born on January, 3rd 1925, she was the daughter of the late C. Blaine Rotz and Mary Jane Buterbaugh Rotz. Lorraine was a faithful member of the Chambersburg Church of the Brethren. She was the co-founder of Scotland Road Market Inc. / The Butcher...

Ruby Byers

Ruby Byers

Jan 9, 2017

Ruby Virginia Lesher Byers, 95, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Monday evening, January 9, 2017 at Penn Hall Nursing Center. Born March 31, 1921 in St. Thomas, she was a daughter of the late Abram and Ivy Pearl Finafrock Lesher. She had worked alongside her late husband at their family business, the former Paul M. Byers, Inc. in Chambersburg. She...

Virginia Shields

Virginia Shields

Jan 8, 2017

Virginia F. Shields, 76, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away Sunday, January 8, 2017 at Chambersburg Hospital. Born June 22, 1940 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late William and Martha Timmons Hepfer. She retired in 2014 from Johnson Controls in Waynesboro where she had worked for more than twenty years. Early in her life she had been employed...

Mildred Witter

Mildred Witter

Jan 8, 2017

Mildred Mary McGowan Witter, 96, of Fayetteville, PA, passed peacefully in her home Sunday morning, January 8, 2017, while surrounded by her family. Born January 2, 1921 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Sherry S. and Anna Hepffer McGowan. She was a 1939 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School and served in the US Coast Guard...

Donna Sylvain

Donna Sylvain

Jan 6, 2017

Donna Jean Sylvain, age 60, of Shippensburg, PA, passed away at the Chambersburg Hospital on Friday, January 6, 2017. Born February 23, 1956, in Chelsea, MA, she was the daughter of Kathleen Cavanaugh Sylvain and the late Robert N. Sylvain. A U.S. Navy veteran, Donna served honorably from 1980 – 1986. She went on to work as a computer technician...

Mark Stader

Mark Stader

Jan 6, 2017

Mark Richard Stader, age 58, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away unexpectedly at his home on Friday, January 6, 2017. Born November 2, 1958, in Quantico, VA, Mark is the son of Dr. Richard O. and Mary Louise Stader. A 1977 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School, Mark went on to earn his Bachelor's degree from Juniata College and...

Kathryn DeShong

Kathryn DeShong

Jan 5, 2017

Kathryn G. DeShong age 77, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away at the Chambersburg Hospital on Thursday, January 5, 2017. Born October 29, 1939, in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Lloyd and Louise Knepper Helman, Sr. Mrs. DeShong dedicated over 40 years, working at Knouse Foods, retiring in 2004. She enjoyed gardening, cooking, and baking. Surviving are five...

Walter Smith

Walter Smith

Jan 4, 2017

Walter J. Smith, 94, longtime resident of Madison, CT and for the last three years of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Wednesday, January 4, 2017 in the Quincy United Methodist Home in Waynesboro. Born on December 15, 1922 in Troy, NY, he was a son of the late Walter S. Smith and Kerstine Jensen Smith. He grew up in New...

Donald Feldman

Donald Feldman

Jan 4, 2017

Donald Vaden Feldman, age 82, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away at his home on Wednesday, January 4, 2017. Born in Chambersburg, PA on January 28, 1934, he was the son of the late Donald A. and Mildred L. Miller Feldman. A U.S. Navy veteran, Mr. Feldman served honorably during the Korean Conflict. He was a diesel mechanic for a number...

Robert Boyer

Robert Boyer

Dec 30, 2016

Robert D. “Bob” Boyer, 91, of Chambersburg, PA passed away on Friday, December 30, 2016, at the Chambersburg, Hospital. Born May 1, 1925 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Benjamin Franklin and Elsie Verbena Stabley Boyer. Bob was a 1943 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School. A U.S. Army veteran, he served honorably in World War...

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