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Marie Mote
Sep 14, 2023
Marie A. (Knott) Mote, 90, of Chambersburg, PA passed away Thursday, September 14, 2023 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born October 21, 1932 in Philadelphia, PA she was the daughter of the late John and Mary (Salagi) Knott. She was a graduate of Germantown High School. Marie was a member of Corpus Christi Catholic Church where she was a member of...
Janet Zeigler
Sep 13, 2023
Janet L. Zeigler, 89, of Chambersburg, passed away on Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at Chambers Pointe. Born November 26, 1933 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late John Kirkpatrick and A. Margaret Foust Kirkpatrick Ricker. Her beloved husband of 55 years, Donald L. Zeigler, preceded her in death on September 5, 2005. Janet was employed as an assembler...
Benjamin Nelson
Sep 12, 2023
Benjamin J. Nelson, 69, of Chambersburg, passed away Tuesday morning, September 12, 2023 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born February 28, 1954 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late R.V. and Margaret Bradley Nelson. He was a 1972 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School and attended the Mont Alto campus of Penn State University. He was last...
Thelma Johnson
Sep 12, 2023
Thelma Mae (Stewart) Johnson, 87, formerly of Saint Thomas, PA, passed away to be with her Lord and Savior on Tuesday morning, September 12, 2023 at Brookview Healthcare Center. Born December 21, 1935 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late William W, Sr. and Della (Coldsmith) Stewart. A 1953 graduate of Chambersburg High School, she was employed and...
Grace Commerer
Sep 11, 2023
Grace E. “Peg” Commerer, 93, of Shippensburg, PA passed away Monday, September 11, 2023 at Shippensburg Rehab and Healthcare Center. Born June 10, 1930 in Shippensburg she was the daughter of the late George R. and Elsie E. Porter Shannon. She was employed as a seamstress at the former Greif Pants Company, Shippensburg. Peg was a member of Memorial Lutheran...
Angela Smith
Sep 8, 2023
Angela M. Purvis Smith, age 71, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Friday, September 8, 2023, at The Shook Home. Born June 12, 1952, in Chambersburg, PA, she was the daughter of the late Curtis Purvis, Jr. and Naomi Prieto Purvis. Mrs. Smith was a 1970 graduate of CASHS. She attended Einstein Medical College and then went to work as...
Clarence Guyer
Sep 7, 2023
Clarence E. Guyer, 83, of Chambersburg, PA passed away Thursday, September 7, 2023 in Chambersburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born July 27, 1940 in Chambersburg, he was the son of the late John Andrew and Mabel Leevy Guyer. He was employed as a roofer for a number of years and in maintenance for Knouse Foods. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and...
Michael Carbaugh
Sep 4, 2023
Michael A. Carbaugh, 69, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Monday, September 4, 2023 at the Chambersburg Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born December 14, 1953 in Chambersburg, he was a son of Joan L. Peters Carbaugh and the late Frank E. Carbaugh. Michael graduated from high school in Frankfort, Germany and served honorably with the US Air Force and Army...
Merle Pefley
Sep 1, 2023
Merle R. “Dick” Pefley, 89, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Friday afternoon, September 1, 2023 at the Shook Home. Born October 2, 1933 in Martinsburg, WV, he was a son of the late Paul and Gladys Burkholder Pefley. Dick attended Chambersburg High School and served honorably with the US Army 84th Combat Engineers, 75th Battalion in Okinawa and Formosa during...
Max Sempowski
Sep 1, 2023
Max Joseph Sempowski, 86, of Boonsboro, MD, passed away on Friday, September 1, 2023 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born July 10, 1937 in Muskegon, MI, he was a son of the late Henry Z. and Frances Jackson Sempowski. Max was employed in sales in the water treatment industry for many years ultimately retiring from Sloan, Inc. He was most recently...
Keith Martin
Aug 31, 2023
Keith Edwin Martin, 55, of Chambersburg, passed away suddenly as a result of a farming accident on August 31, 2023. Born December 13, 1967 in Norristown, PA, he was the son of Glenn E. Martin and Phyllis M. Stewart Martin. Keith was a 1986 graduate of Chambersburg Area Senior High School. A hardworking dairy farmer, Keith enjoyed planting crops and...
Johanna Spierenburg
Aug 30, 2023
Johanna Maria Spierenburg, 89, of Chambersburg, and formerly of Hyattsville, MD, passed away on Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at Providence Place Senior Living. Born February 18, 1934 in Roelofarendsveen, Netherlands, she was a daughter of the late Hermanus and Johanna Koek Verdel. Her beloved husband, Gysbertus (Bart) C. Spierenburg, preceded her in death on September 12, 1995. Johanna and her...
Gladys Miller
Aug 30, 2023
Gladys B. Miller, 87, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at Menno Haven Village Square where she had resided for the past several weeks. Born February 21, 1936 in Guilford Township, Franklin County, she was the daughter of the late Crawford A. and Verna A. Wagaman Baker. Gladys was a 1954 graduate of the former Quincy High...
James Fegan
Aug 27, 2023
James E. Fegan, Sr., age 100, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Sunday morning, August 27, 2023 at Brookview Nursing Center where he resided for the past two years. Born July 5, 1923 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late George E. Fegan, Sr. and Loretta Miller Fegan. Mr. Fegan attended Chambersburg High School and served honorably with the...
Daniel Weller
Aug 26, 2023
Daniel C. Weller, 72, of Chambersburg, PA passed away Saturday, August 26, 2023 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born October 17, 1950 in Hagerstown, MD he was the son of the late Daniel C. Weller, Sr. and Pauline (Stoner) Weller. He was employed for OSI before going to work at Knouse Foods for 37 years. Danny enjoyed puzzles, model trains and...
Ruth Maginsky
Aug 25, 2023
Ruth Mary Maginsky, age 89, passed away peacefully on August 25, 2023. Ruth was born in Elmira, NY on November 26, 1933 to Burton and Mary Morgan. She graduated from Hughesville High School in 1951. From 1951-1955 she attended Mansfield University and graduated with a B.S. degree in music education. She attended Oneonta University in 1975 with 30 hours in...
Fredrick Morris
Aug 25, 2023
Fredrick Lee “Fred” Morris age 68 of Chambersburg, PA passed away on Friday, August 25, 2023, surrounded by his family. Fred was born in Maple Avenue Hospital in DuBois, PA on December 8, 1954, the son of the late Harry Alfred Morris and the late Doris Maxine Archibald Morris of Corsica, PA. Fred grew up in Falls Creek, PA and...
Darlene Shuler
Aug 23, 2023
Darlene Shuler, 75, of Chambersburg, passed away on Wednesday, August 23, 2023 in Laurel Lakes Nursing and Rehab Center. Born on February 20, 1948, she was a daughter of the late Earl McCardell and Dorothy Clugston McCardell. Darlene was a graduate of the former Chambersburg High School and she had worked as a waitress at various local restaurants over the...
Deborah Hepfer
Aug 22, 2023
Deborah K. Hepfer, 62, of Chambersburg, PA passed away Tuesday, August 22, 2023 in Holy Spirit Hospital, Camp Hill, PA surrounded by her wife and daughter from complications of COVID. Born December 7, 1960 in Chambersburg she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Helen (Helmuth) Hepfer. She was employed as a cook at Laurel Lakes Nursing Home formerly...
Phyllis Stewart
Aug 20, 2023
Phyllis Lee Stewart, 61, of Chambersburg, passed away on Sunday, August 20, 2023. Born February 9, 1962 in Harrisburg, PA, she was a daughter of the late Ronald T. and Lois M. Miller Berkheimer. Her beloved husband, George “Tom” Stewart, preceded her in death on March 9, 2005. Phyllis was a 1980 graduate of Johnstown Vo-Tech. A US Navy veteran,...
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