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LauRue Pierson
Jun 29, 2017
LauRue Pierson, 83, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away Thursday morning, June 29, 2017 at Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born March 7, 1934 in Huntington County, PA, she was a daughter of the late John Thomas and Pearl Ann Mock Shore. Mrs. Pierson was employed as a manager with Hertz Rental Cars in Virginia and had also worked as...
William Wishard
Jun 29, 2017
William O. Wishard, 83, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away Thursday, June 29, 2017 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born June 2, 1934 in Zullinger, PA, he was a son of the late Hugh D. and Winona C. Hess Wishard. He was a 1952 graduate of the former Washington Township High School and served with the US Air Force from 1952-1956. He...
Ray Rotz
Jun 29, 2017
Ray A. Rotz, age 96 of Chambersburg, passed away on Thursday, June 29, 2017 at Village Square at Menno Haven. Born February 14, 1921 in Chambersburg, he was the son of the late Walter and Emma Ray Rotz. A US Navy veteran of WWII, Mr. Rotz owned and operated The Minute Car Wash on Loudon St. in Chambersburg and the...
Naomi Rowe
Jun 28, 2017
Naomi Brubaker Rowe, 84, of Chambersburg, PA and formerly of Jessup, MD, passed away on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at Penn Hall Nursing Center. Born January 24, 1933 in Lancaster, PA, she was a daughter of the late Jonas E. and Naomi S. Brubaker. Her beloved husband, Robert C. Rowe, preceded her in death on March 26, 2016. A 1949...
Richard Hamsher
Jun 28, 2017
Richard Clayton Hamsher, 97, of Chambersburg passed away on June 28, 2017 at Menno Haven. Born November 18, 1919 in Chambersburg, he was the son of Clayton S. Hamsher and Elizabeth Martin Hamsher. Mr. Hamsher graduated from Chambersburg High School in the Class of 1937 and Penn State University in the Class of 1947 with a BS in Agricultural Engineering....
J. Marie Hawk
Jun 26, 2017
Julia Marie Sites Hawk, 81, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Monday evening, June 26, 2017. Born August 15, 1935 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Wilber L. Sites, Sr. and Della Stewart Sites. Marie retired from the Chambersburg Hospital where she had worked as a Certified Pharmacy Technician. She was a faithful member of the Mt. Pleasant...
Tyson Hettenschuller
Jun 20, 2017
Tyson Andrew Hettenschuller, age 19, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Born July 9, 1997, in Chambersburg, PA, he was the son of Jessica Ann Miller. Tyson was a 2015 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School. Tyson enjoyed skateboarding, going fishing, playing video games, and spending time socializing with friends. In addition to...
Mildred Randolph
Jun 20, 2017
Mildred A. Randolph, age 99, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on June 20, 2017 at SpiriTrust Lutheran, the Home at Luther Ridge. Born March 1, 1918 in New Brunswick, NJ, she was a daughter of the late Arthur C. and Hazel F. Stryker Jaques. Her beloved husband, Merrill A. Randolph, Sr. preceded her in death on December 13, 1976. Mildred...
Zoe McCleaf
Jun 19, 2017
Zoe P. McCleaf, age 87, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Monday, June 19, 2017, at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born October 17, 1929, in Waynesboro, PA, she was the daughter of the late Nicholas D. and Maria Alpoynis Papoutsis. A 1947 graduate of the Shippensburg High School, Mrs. McCleaf went on to graduate from the former Chambersburg Business School. She...
Dean Eichelberger
Jun 18, 2017
Dean S. Eichelberger, 71, of Fort Loudon, PA, passed away unexpectedly Sunday evening, June 18, 2017 at his home. Born January 7, 1946 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Franklin Pierce and Sarah Kathryn Weaver Eichelberger. Dean was employed in retail custodial work most of his life. He enjoyed attending church; telling jokes; and was an avid...
James Clever
Jun 18, 2017
James “Jim” Richard Clever, age 65, of Ft. Loudon, PA, passed away on Sunday, June 18, 2017, at Falling Spring Nursing and Rehab Center. Born in Chambersburg, PA on February 25, 1952, he is the son of Betty Hollenshead Clever and the late Richard G. Clever of St. Thomas, PA. A 1970 graduate of the James Buchanan High School, Jim...
Robert Lininger
Jun 14, 2017
Robert L. Lininger, III, 43, of Mercersburg, PA, died unexpectedly on Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at Meritus Medical Center in Hagerstown, MD. Born December 11, 1973 in Chambersburg, he was the son of Robert L. Lininger, Jr. of McConnellsburg and the late Kay Arlene Brant Lininger. Currently employed by Fayetteville Contractors, he had previously been employed at Foremost Industries, Nitterhouse...
Myrtle Seilhamer
Jun 14, 2017
Myrtle B. Seilhamer, age 83, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born May 23, 1934, in Marion, PA, she was the daughter of the late George and Alice Snyder Seilhamer. Ms. Seilhamer, known to her close friends as “Murt” and to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren as “Mim” worked as a nurse’s aide...
Ronald Sites
Jun 13, 2017
Ronald G. Sites, 76, of Marion, PA, passed away Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born November 10, 1940 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late George A. and Louise Kemp Sites. He retired from Guilford Township in 1996 after more than thirty years of employment. Mr. Sites was a member of Macedonia United Brethren Church...
Randy Motter
Jun 13, 2017
Randy D. Motter, 63, of Dry Run, PA, passed away unexpectedly Tuesday morning, June 13, 2017 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born February 8, 1954 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Ed and Bethel Umbrell Motter. Early in his life he drove truck for his parents at the former Motter’s Furniture Store in Dry Run. He was employed...
Mary "Karolyn" Lawrence
Jun 11, 2017
Mary “Karolyn” Lawrence, age 72, passed away Sunday, June 11, 2017 at Menno Haven Nursing Center. Born at home on Christmas Day 1944 to Lester Sr. & Nettie Doyle Hammond in Dry Run, PA, she frequently teased her four older siblings that she was the BEST Christmas present they ever got! Karolyn was a 1962 graduate of Fannett Metal High...
David Baer
Jun 10, 2017
David R. Baer, 54, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Saturday, June 10, 2017 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born April 30, 1963 in Chambersburg, he was the son of David J. Baer of Chambersburg and the late Patricia L. McClure Baer. A 1981 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School and Franklin County Vocational-Technical School, David went on to work...
Peggy McNew
Jun 9, 2017
Peggy J. McNew, 80, of Chambersburg, passed away on Friday, June 9, 2017 at the Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born on June 25, 1936 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late John T. and Isabell West Sprow. Mrs. McNew was a homemaker most of her adult life. She enjoyed spending time with her family and had...
Charles Horner
Jun 9, 2017
Charles R. “Jack” Horner, Jr., age 85 of St. Thomas, PA, passed away on Friday, June 9, 2017 at Holy Spirit Hospital in Camp Hill, PA. Born October 20, 1931, he was the son of the late Charles R. and Colleen Unger Horner, Sr. A 1950 graduate of the former Hagerstown High School, Jack went on to serve honorably in...
Mark Werdebaugh
Jun 9, 2017
Mark Melvin Werdebaugh, Sr., 67, of Chambersburg, went home to be with the Lord unexpectedly on Friday, June 9, 2017, at the Chambersburg Hospital. His devotion to his family and his firm belief in God throughout his life, ultimately gave him peace. Born on October 18, 1949, in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Albert Melvin Werdebaugh, Jr....
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