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Norman Burdge
Feb 3, 2016
Norman B. Burdge, age 88, of East Waterford, PA, passed away on Wednesday, February 3, 2016, at Locust Grove Retirement Community, Mifflin, PA. Born May 5, 1927, in Shade Valley, he was the son of the late Brady and Alverta Shearer Burdge. A self employed farmer most of his adult life, Mr. Burdge enjoyed hunting and butchering with his family...
Martha Stermer
Feb 1, 2016
Martha “Jane” Stermer, 91, of Chambersburg, passed away on Monday morning, February 1, 2016 at The Shook Home. Born February 14, 1924 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Frank E. Demuth and Sarah Leib Demuth. Her beloved husband, John Joseph Stermer, preceded her in death on January 14, 1986. Jane was employed as a cook at Olympia...
Iris Parr
Feb 1, 2016
Iris Mary Parr, 92, of Orrtanna, died Monday, February 1st, 2016, peacefully at her home surrounded by her family. Born June 17, 1923 in Leicester, England, she was the only daughter of the late Frederick and Elsie Haddon. Iris was preceded in death by her second husband, William A. Parr, Sr., to whom she was married for 35 years; and...
Barbara Sherman
Jan 31, 2016
Barbara A. Sherman, age 72, of Chambersburg, and formerly of Maumee, OH, passed away on Sunday, January 31, 2016 at Providence Place of Chambersburg. Born on May 24, 1943 in Baltimore, MD, she was a daughter of the late Ralph R. Tappen and Mary Trumpi Tappen. She was the widow of Charles S. “Chuck” Sherman, who preceded her in death...
Larry Stoner
Jan 29, 2016
Larry E. Stoner, Sr., 67, of Fayetteville, stepped into Glory surrounded by his family on Friday morning, January 29, 2016 at his home. Born October 27, 1948 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Robert Glenn and Helen Fritz Stoner. Larry was a 1966 graduate of CASHS. He was employed as a machine setup and operator at Mack...
Ruth Dice
Jan 29, 2016
Ruth S. Dice, 90, passed away on Friday, January 29, 2016 in Menno Haven. She was born on September 1, 1925 in Chambersburg, to the late F. Shull Skelly and Edna Coble Skelly. She was the widow of Abram Dice, who preceded her in death in 1991. She also was preceded in death by two sisters, Mary Shetler and Esther...
Isabel Drawbaugh
Jan 29, 2016
Isabel S. Drawbaugh, 83, of Chambersburg, died on Friday, January 29, 2016 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born on June 26, 1932 in Waynesboro, she was a daughter of the late Gerald Shaffer and Margaret Hoy Shaffer and raised by Walter and Isabel Snyder in Chambersburg. Isabel worked years ago as a teller at the former Valleybank, and also as a...
Melvin Watkins
Jan 29, 2016
Melvin P. “Mel” Watkins, 89, of Dry Run, PA, died Friday evening, January 29, 2016 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born May 22, 1926 in Coals Valley, PA, he was a son of the late Clarence and Edna Stains Watkins. He was employed at one time with the Pennsylvania Game Commission and also worked as a truck driver and logger. He...
Luann Truax
Jan 28, 2016
Luann Harriet Truax, age 65, of Shippensburg, PA, passed away on Thursday, January 28, 2016 at Mt. Nittany Medical Center. Born October 26, 1950 in Brattleboro, VT, she was the daughter of Harriet Coolbrith Gassette and the late Norman Gassette. Her loving husband, Norman Truax, whom she married on May 23, 1993, preceded her in death on February 2, 2012....
John Stumbaugh
Jan 28, 2016
John E. Stumbaugh, 83, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Thursday morning, January 28, 2016 at his home. Born June 27, 1932 in Marion, PA, he was a son of the late Edward and Pearl Harmon Stumbaugh. John retired from C. Earl Brown where he worked as a diesel mechanic for forty-seven years. Following his retirement he worked part-time for fifteen...
Robert Root
Jan 27, 2016
Robert L. Root, 83, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born on December 13, 1932 in Plainfield, NJ, he was a son of the late George and Audrey Daly Root. His loving wife of 55 years, Ann M. “Mike” Root, whom he married on December 27, 1959, preceded him...
Gerald Black
Jan 26, 2016
Gerald L. Black, 75, of Chambersburg, PA, entered his Heavenly home Tuesday, January 26, 2016. Born June 29, 1940 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Walter and Viola Rice Black. Gerald co-owned and co-operated Black Brothers Lumber where he could often be found operating the log loader truck and running the saw at the mill. He enjoyed...
Irene Gearhart
Jan 26, 2016
Irene L. Gearhart, 78, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away on Tuesday morning, January 26, 2016 at Quincy Village. Born July 5, 1937 in Hancock, MD, she was a daughter of the late Homer and Mabel Younker Weller. Irene was employed as an LPN at the former Franklin County Home for the Aging, and later at Shook Home until her retirement....
Sue Day
Jan 24, 2016
Sue Moyer Day, age 69, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away at the Falling Spring Nursing and Rehab Center on Sunday, January 24, 2016. Born May 19, 1946, in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Elmer and Catherine Fetters Moyer. A 1964 graduate of CASHS, Sue went on the earn her bachelor’s degree from Shippensburg University in 1978 and...
Dorothy Sitterly
Jan 24, 2016
Dorothy Marie Andreiuolo Sitterly, 91, a resident of the Village of Laurel Run, Fayetteville, PA, passed away on Sunday, January 24, while visiting her daughter, Doree, of West Lake Village, CA. Born on January 4, 1925 in Corona, NY, she was a daughter of the late Francis Andreiuolo and Dorothy Balzer Andreiuolo. She was the widow of Robert J. Sitterly,...
Russell Bender
Jan 24, 2016
Russell A. Bender, 91, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Sunday, January 24, 2016 at Penn Hall. Born October 29, 1924 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late William and Laura (Miller) Bender. Russell was a 1943 graduate of the former Quincy High School. A U.S. Army Air Corps veteran, he served honorably in the European Theatre as...
Charles Cruz
Jan 23, 2016
Charles Placido Cruz, age 94, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away on Saturday, January 23, 2016 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Mr. Cruz was born May 3, 1921 in Honolulu, HI. Mr. Cruz worked for the U.S. Government at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for over 35 years, retiring in 1976. He would eventually move from Hawaii to Maryland and finally permanently...
Rev. Arthur Kuehn
Jan 22, 2016
Rev. Arthur H. Kuehn, 79, of Fayetteville, PA, died at the Colestock Center, Quincy Village, PA on Friday, January 22, 2016. He was born in 1936 in Cincinnati, OH the son of the late Dorothy and Harry Kuehn. Rev. Kuehn graduated from Withrow High School, Wilmington College, and Colgate-Rochester Divinity School. He was listed in Who’s Who In High School,...
Robert Puchalski
Jan 20, 2016
Robert “Bob” M. Puchalski, 76, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at the Chambersburg Hospital following a courageous battle with cancer. He was born August 5, 1939 in Plymouth, PA, in the home of his late maternal grandparents, Joseph and Sophia Olshefski. He was the son of the late Helen (Olshefski) and Adam Puchalski. Bob was...
Barbara Kauffman Peck Thompson
Jan 19, 2016
Barbara Joy West Kauffman Peck Thompson “Barbie”, age 73, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away on Tuesday, January 19, 2016, at her home with her family by her side after a courageous battle with cancer. Born February 12, 1942, in Chambersburg, PA, she was the daughter of the late Boyd “Preach” and Elsie Mae Ulrich West. Barbie was a 1960 graduate...
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