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Shirley Grove
Dec 17, 2015
Shirley L. (McNew) Grove, 80, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away peacefully Thursday morning, December 17, 2015 at Providence Place where she has resided the past four years. Born January 30, 1935 in Fayetteville, PA, she was a daughter and the baby of six children born to the late David C. and Rhoda (Peters) McNew. Shirley grew up and lived in...
Beatrice Swisher
Dec 15, 2015
Beatrice N. Swisher, 93, of Chambersburg, passed away on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at Menno Haven. Born February 20, 1922, she was the daughter of the late Walter I. and Gertrude Stoner Hoover. Her beloved husband, Richard D. Swisher, preceded her in death on August 27, 2002. Beatrice was employed as a seamstress early in her life at Interwoven for...
Kathryn Criniti
Dec 15, 2015
Kathryn M. Criniti, age 88, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away unexpectedly in the Chambersburg Hospital on Tuesday, December 15, 2015. Born October 30, 1927, in Yardley, PA, she was the daughter of the late Anna Doyle Robbins. Mrs. Criniti graduated from the former Yardley School. She worked as a teacher’s aide for years at a local Junior High school in...
Robert Hartwig
Dec 14, 2015
Robert H. Hartwig, 71, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Monday, December 14, 2015 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born June 19, 1944 in Warsaw, NY, he was a son of the late John Henry and Marjorie Jane Hilborn Hartwig. He was a member of MCC of the Spirit Church in Harrisburg, PA. Robert is survived by his brother, Jack Hartwig and...
Robert Wilson
Dec 13, 2015
Robert E. “Bob” Wilson, age 77, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Sunday, December 13, 2015 at the Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born March 2, 1938, in Chambersburg, he was the son of the late Arthur and H. Louise High Wilson. A machine operator, Bob dedicated 36 years, working at the James River Corporation, retiring in 1998. He...
Florence Hepfer
Dec 12, 2015
Florence E. Hepfer, 88, of Chambersburg, passed away on Saturday, December 12, 2015 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born September 9, 1927 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Brandt C. Gonder, Sr. and Barbara G. Werdbaugh Gonder. Florence was a 1945 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School. She was employed at Grief Company as a seamstress for...
Robert Greenwalt
Dec 12, 2015
Robert James Greenwalt, 93, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Saturday afternoon, December 12, 2015 at his home. Born May 1, 1922 in Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, NY, he was a son of the late Milton J. and Martha Singer Greenwalt. A 1940 graduate of the John Adams High School in Queens, NY, Mr. Greenwalt served with the US Army during WWII....
Richard Methner
Dec 10, 2015
Richard William Methner, a long time resident of Chambersburg, died quietly in his sleep on December 10th at the VA Medical Center in Martinsburg, WV at the age of 99. Richard was born August 19, 1916 in Old Bridge, NJ, to Charles and Catherine Methner, the fourth oldest of ten children, two of whom died in infancy. He graduated from...
Helen Martin
Dec 9, 2015
Helen E. Martin age 87, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away peacefully at her home with her family by her side on Wednesday, December 9, 2015. Born in Shippensburg PA, on November 20, 1928, she was the daughter of the late William and Ruth Ellen Witter Reath. Mrs. Martin worked at the Shippensburg University and at Knouse Foods for a number...
Beverly Stepler
Dec 9, 2015
Beverly L. Stepler, age 87, of Fayetteville, PA, and formerly of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Wednesday, December 09, 2015, at the Village of Laurel Run. Born in Chebeague Island, ME on May 17, 1928, she was the daughter of the late Ray E. Hamilton and Mildred V. Turner Hamilton. A seamstress at the former Stanley Company, Mrs. Stepler dedicated...
Glenn LaRose
Dec 8, 2015
Glenn E. LaRose, 66, of Chambersburg, passed away on Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at Hershey Medical Center. Born April 22, 1949 in Bridgeport, CT, he was a son of the late William Joseph LaRose, Jr. and Jacqueline Pease LaRose Crayton. A U.S. Navy veteran, Glenn served his country honorably during the Vietnam Conflict. He was employed at Grove Worldwide for...
Anna Marie Hock
Dec 8, 2015
Anna Marie Hock, age 78, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away on Tuesday, December 8, 2015, at her home. Born in Chambersburg, PA on February 25, 1937, she was the daughter of the late Roy W. and Dorothy Mae Wolf Gilbert. A 1955 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School, Mrs. Hock was a member of the first graduating class...
Tracy Black
Dec 7, 2015
Tracy Lynn Black, 47, of Greencastle, PA, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, December 7, 2015 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born November 28, 1968 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of Larry and Linda (Wolfe) Dehart. In addition to her parents, Tracy is survived by her husband, Charles Black and her son, Drew Black, both of Chambersburg. Tracy was a graduate...
Doris Whiteman
Dec 6, 2015
Doris G. Whiteman, age 95, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Sunday, December 6, 2015, at the Thornwald Home in Carlisle, PA. Born August 26, 1920, she was the daughter of the late Montgomery and Cora E. Gelsinger Whiteman. Graveside services will be held on Wednesday, December 9, 2015, at 1 PM in Lincoln Cemetery, Chambersburg, PA. Arrangements are entrusted...
James Houston
Dec 5, 2015
James A. “Jim” Houston, Jr., 91, of Chambersburg, passed away on Saturday, December 5, 2015 at the Inn at Luther Ridge. Born August 26, 1924 in Washington D.C., he was son of the late James A. and Ruby M. Miller Houston. His beloved wife C. Christine Houston, preceded him in death on March 24, 2006. Jim served honorably in the...
Deborah Heinbaugh
Dec 3, 2015
Deborah S. “Debbie” Heinbaugh, 48, of Mercersburg, PA, passed away unexpectedly but peacefully on Wednesday, December 3, 2015 at her home. Born April 27, 1967 in Waynesboro, PA, she was the daughter of Mary Catherine Atherton and the late Kenneth Atherton, Sr. Debbie was a graduate of James Buchanan High School. She was employed as a clerk at Snider’s Jewelers...
Doris Miller
Dec 1, 2015
Doris Jane Holtry Miller, 81 of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Tuesday, December 1, 2015, at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born August 15, 1934 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Harvey and Sarah Hendricks Holtry. Mrs. Miller attended the former Chambersburg High School. She went on to work at the former Stanley Company, where she worked for over...
Vickie Pensinger
Nov 30, 2015
Vickie S. Pensinger, 59, of Chambersburg, PA, died unexpectedly Monday evening, November 30, 2015 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born November 22, 1956 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Richard I. Perry and Sandra Lane McNew. She was a homemaker most of her life. Vickie enjoyed painting crafts. She is survived by her companion of 35 years, Francis...
Mary Fulton
Nov 30, 2015
Mary Irene (Dean) Fulton of Menno Haven, Chambersburg, PA, passed away on November 30, 2015. She was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia on August 11, 1931, the daughter of Bunnell and Hazel Dean. She was raised in Lewis County, WV, graduated in 1949 from Weston High School (now Lewis County High School), and in 1952 graduated as a Registered Nurse...
Edward Thompson
Nov 29, 2015
Edward E. Thompson, 98, of Lakeland, FL and formerly of Chambersburg, died at his Lakeland home on Sunday, November 29, 2015. He was born on December 7, 1916 in Tattyreagh, County Fermanagh, Ireland to the late Robert and Louisa Burnside Thompson. A World War II veteran of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, Ed served in tours in North Africa and...
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