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Eleanore Schmid
Nov 25, 2016
Eleanore Marie (Ellie) Schmid, age 87, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Friday, November 25, 2016, at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born August 16, 1929, in Elizabeth, NJ, she was the daughter of the late John and Helen Homolish Leskanic. Mrs. Schmid was a 1947 graduate of Linden High School in Linden, NJ. She was a member of Corpus Christi Catholic...
Ellen Rife
Nov 24, 2016
Ellen B. Rife, age 64, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away at her home on Thursday, November 24, 2016, with her family by her side. Born February 14, 1952, in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Clyde H. and Mary Naomi Burkholder Lehman. A 1970 graduate of Chambersburg Area Senior High School, Mrs. Rife went on to Licensed Practical...
Doris Oyler
Nov 24, 2016
Doris Katherine Phillips Oyler, 93, of Chambersburg, PA, left the family and friends she loved on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 24, 2016. Born January 2, 1923, she was adopted at 11 months of age via The Christian’s Home of Pittsburgh by Drucilla Kissell Phillips and William Blair Phillips. Doris graduated from the former Chambersburg High School in 1940. She was nicknamed...
George Cowley
Nov 24, 2016
George L. Cowley, 71, of Chambersburg, passed away on Thursday, November 24, 2016, at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born December 13, 1944, in McKeesport, PA, he was the son of the late Frank A. and Nelle Mehrman Cowley. George was a 1962 graduate of the former Duquesne High School. He later earned his B.S. in Education from Clarion University in 1966...
Arthur Hughes
Nov 23, 2016
Arthur Ralph Hughes, 69, of Fayetteville, passed away Wednesday morning, November 23, 2016 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born May 27, 1947 in Chambersburg, he was the son of the late Ralph George and Margaret Stanchowski Hughes. A U.S Army veteran, Arthur served honorably in the Vietnam War. He was employed with Valley Quarries and New Enterprise Stone and Lime for...
Annabelle Jones
Nov 23, 2016
Annabelle Jones, age 93, passed away on Wednesday, November 23, 2016, in Clarksville, TN. Formerly of Fayetteville, PA, she most recently was residing in Hopkinsville, KY. Born August 10, 1923 in Fayetteville, PA, she was the daughter of the late Jacob E. and Nora B. Shields Young. Mrs. Jones was a life member of the American Legion Post 46 and...
Amara Hoke
Nov 23, 2016
Amara Olivia Hoke, age 3, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away at her home on Wednesday, November 23, 2016, at 8:24 AM, born in York, PA, she is the daughter of Jeffrey T. and Brittany R. Hoke. Amara loved her family and enjoyed spending time with them; she loved to listen to music, and the chaos that came with having three...
Elizabeth Cowan
Nov 21, 2016
Elizabeth J. Cowan, 87, of Chambersburg, passed away on Monday, November 21, 2016 in Penn Hall. Born on November 21, 1929 in Wilkes-Barre, PA, she was a daughter of the late Walter Smith and Marie Dunn Smith. Elizabeth worked for many years for the Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, where she later served as the Executive...
Marie Dean
Nov 20, 2016
Marie B. Dean, age 99, of Chambersburg, PA, and formerly of Amberson, PA, passed away at Penn Hall Nursing Center on Sunday, November 20, 2016. Born January 15, 1917, in Altham, PA, she was the daughter of the late George F. and Ann May Sauer Bussell. A Homemaker most of her working years, she was employed as a lathe operator...
Earl Snyder
Nov 17, 2016
Earl E. Snyder, 92, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Thursday morning, November 17, 2016 at Penn Hall Nursing Center. Born November 11, 1924 in West Branch, Iowa, he was a son of the late Albert and Della Mae Myers Snyder. Earl was a 1942 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School and served with the US Army in Korea near...
Walter Lehman
Nov 15, 2016
Walter Lehman, Jr., 88, Possum Hollow Rd., died on Tuesday evening, November 15, 2016, at his home. Born June 6, 1928, in Franklin County, PA, he was the son of the late Walter H. and Ada G. (Martin) Lehman. He was a member of the Antrim Mennonite Church near Greencastle and attended the Culbertson Mennonite Church near Chambersburg. He was...
William Trogler
Nov 15, 2016
William A. Trogler, 86, a resident at Elmcroft in Shippensburg, PA, passed away Tuesday morning, November 15, 2016 at the nursing home. Born May 4, 1930 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Albert and Helen Bivens Trogler. Mr. Trogler served with the US Army during the Korean War and was employed by Roadway trucking company He was...
Sharon Henry
Nov 12, 2016
Sharon A. (Williams) Henry, 71, of St. Thomas, PA, passed away Saturday morning, November 12, 2016 at ManorCare Health Services in Chambersburg. Born November 15, 1944 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Richard Hill and Ruth Hussong Hill Cullison, and a step-daughter of the late James Cullison. Sharon was a graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High...
Edith Wenger
Nov 12, 2016
Edith I. Wenger, age 97, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Saturday, November 12, 2016, at Manor Care Health Services. Born January 19, 1919, in Franklin County, PA, she was the daughter of the late William R. and Mary E. Burkhart Forrester. Mrs. Wenger was a 1936 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School. She later worked at the Chambersburg...
George Robinson
Nov 9, 2016
George F. Robinson, Sr., 82, of Chambersburg, passed away on Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at ManorCare. Born July 5, 1934 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Lloyd and Viola I. “Floe” Trace Robinson. His wife, Kathryn E. Robinson, preceded him in death on March 27, 2007. George was employed as a shipping clerk with T.B. Woods for...
Helen Hornbaker
Nov 8, 2016
Helen M. (Hull) Hornbaker, 98, of Chambersburg, passed away November, 8, 2016 at the Shook Home. She was born July 8, 1918 to the late Clyde and Mary Jane (Brindle) Hull, in St. Thomas. Her husband Lester P. Hornbaker, Sr., preceded her in death on June 18, 1977. Early in her life she was employed at the Woolen Mill in...
Dereck Middlekauff
Nov 5, 2016
Dereck Alan Middlekauff, 23, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away unexpectedly Saturday, November 5, 2016 in the emergency room of Chambersburg Hospital. Born January 21, 1993 in Chambersburg, he was a son of Timothy R. and Melissa Wright Ebersole. Dereck was a 2011 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School. He was a licensed mechanic and was most recently employed...
Mark Keefer
Nov 5, 2016
Mark C. Keefer, 47, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away unexpectedly Saturday, November 5, 2016 at his home. Born September 22, 1969 in Chambersburg, he was a son of Charles L. Keefer, Jr. and wife Cheryl of Shippensburg and Beverly Myers Rhine and husband Palmer of Chambersburg. Mark was a 1987 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School and was...
Pauline Wagner
Nov 4, 2016
Pauline L. Wagner, 87, formerly of Brookens Road, Fayetteville, PA, passed away Friday evening, November 4, 2016 at Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born February 3, 1929 in Fayetteville, she was a daughter of the late David and Rhoda Mae Peters McNew. Her husband, Charles A. Wagner, whom she married on October 4, 1947, preceded her in death on...
Bonnie McDonald
Nov 4, 2016
Bonita L. "Bonnie" McDonald, 77, of Chambersburg, passed away on Friday, November 4, 2016 in the Falling Spring Nursing and Rehab Center. Born on June 5, 1939 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late William P. McDonald Sr. and Elizabeth “Eva” Cramer McDonald. Bonnie is survived by two brothers, Richard L. “Wimp” McDonald (and wife, Maxine) of Hagerstown,...
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