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Audrey Bolan
Jan 29, 2017
Audrey Mickey Bolan, age 99, of Chambersburg died on January 29, 2017. Born on July 7, 1917 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late William G. and Bessie Stoner Mickey. Audrey worked at Interwoven Mills as a young woman and later at Town and Country department store until her retirement. She was fiercely independent and remained in her...
Dorothy Allee
Jan 29, 2017
Dorothy M. Slifer Allee, 82, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Sunday morning, January 29, 2017 at the Shook Home. Born April 12, 1934 in Hagerstown, MD, she was a daughter of the late Floyd M. and Grace Cassel Slifer. Mrs. Allee was a 1953 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School. She was employed for many years at the former...
Brian Cosey
Jan 26, 2017
Brian Gregory Cosey, 35, of Marion, PA, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, January 26, 2017. Born June 15, 1981, he was a son of Brent O. and Trish Cosey. Brian was a 1999 graduate of CASHS. He then earned his B.S. degree in Physics from Arizona State University in 2014. His passions were science and traveling. He took several trips...
Jordan Gilmore
Jan 26, 2017
Jordan M. Gilmore, 21, of Chambersburg, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, January 26, 2017. Born July 29, 1995, he was the son of Jennifer Smith and Kevin Gilmore. Jordan was a 2014 graduate of CASHS. He then earned his certification as a Diesel Mechanic from UTI in 2015. He was employed as an auto technician at Highlands’ Tire and Service...
Paul Yaukey
Jan 26, 2017
Paul B. Yaukey, 88, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away Thursday evening, January 26, 2017 at Providence Place in Chambersburg. Born July 17, 1928 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Roy A.Yaukey and Margaret G. Bricker Berlin. He was raised by his grandparents, “Mom and Pop”, Mary and Harry Bricker. Paul was a 1946 graduate of the former...
Glenn Wise
Jan 24, 2017
Glenn D. Wise, 77, of Willow Hill, PA, passed away unexpectedly, Tuesday evening, January 24, 2017 at York Hospital. Born February 3, 1939 in Greencastle, he was the son of the late George and Catherine Johnson Wise. Glenn attended school in Greencastle and was a 1957 graduate of Lancaster Mennonite High School. He went on to earn a degree from...
Robin Garnes
Jan 21, 2017
Robin D. Garnes, age 58, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Saturday, January 21, 2017, at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born December 23, 1958, in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Robert E. and Margaret Ballinger Garnes. A graduate of the Franklin Learning Center, Robin went to work for O.S.I. for a number of years in Chambersburg. She was...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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