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Louise Faust
Sep 16, 2013
Louise J. Faust, 82, of Chambersburg, PA, died Monday, September 16, 2013 at ManorCare Health Services. Born June 3, 1931 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Bryan C. and Anna C. Bishop Rosenberry. Louise retired from the Chambersburg Hospital in 1996. She was a member of the Church of the Brethren in Chambersburg and also held membership...
Sarah Weir
Sep 16, 2013
Sarah M. (Kessinger) Weir, 81, died on Monday, September 16, 2013, at Providence Place in Chambersburg.Born November 9, 1931, in Markes, PA, she was the daughter of the late Lloyd Kessinger and Rosa Blanche Atherton Kessinger. Her father died when she was an infant, and her mother and beloved stepfather, Fairman F. Lytle, raised Sarah and her sisters on a...
Marsha Shoemaker
Sep 16, 2013
Marsha Lee Shoemaker, age 63, of Chambersburg, PA passed away on Monday, September 16, 2013 in Manor Care Nursing Home. Born March 15, 1950 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Eugene Richard Henry, Sr. and the late Pauline Helen Swailes Henry. Marsha worked as a CNA for a number of years. She enjoyed knitting, crocheting, and playing...
Helen Myers
Sep 14, 2013
Helen E. Myers, 99, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Saturday afternoon, September 14, 2013 at Menno Haven. Born September 30, 1913 in Metal Township near Fannettsburg, PA, she was a daughter of the late Frank R. and Martha E. Traxler Keller. She was a 1932 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School and was employed for forty-two years at the...
Martha Harry
Sep 14, 2013
Martha M. Harry, 85, of Blairs Mills, PA, died September 14, 2013 at home. Born on March 10, 1928 in Nossville, PA, she was the daughter of the late Alva and Beulah Parson. She was the wife of the late Wilbur T. “Red” Harry, who preceded her in death on May 3, 1980. Martha had various jobs throughout the years,...
Mario Russo
Sep 13, 2013
Mauro Mario “Joe” Russo was born in Bronx, NY on June 20, 1925 to Raphael Russo and Ippolitta Scardigno, immigrants from Foggio, Italy. His parents did not want him to be adversely influenced by the city life so they gave him his first saxophone. At fourteen, he played his first gig at a New Year’s Eve celebration and his musical...
Mildred Gorham
Sep 11, 2013
Mildred T. Gorham, 92, of Shippensburg, PA, died Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at Menno Haven. Born October 2, 1920 in Williamsport, PA, she was a daughter of the late Chester A. and Della M. Williamson Bobst. She was employed with the Chambersburg Area School District for 11 years, retiring as Head Cook at Grandview Elementary School. Mrs. Gorham was a...
Eloise Gardiner
Sep 11, 2013
Eloise M. Gardiner, 95, of Shippensburg, PA, died Wednesday morning, September 11, 2013 at the Shippensburg Health Care Center, where she resided for the past two months. She had previously been a resident of the Episcopal Home in Shippensburg. Born September 20, 1917 in Marietta, OH, she was a daughter of the late Charles M. and Jennie M. Dillie Thurman....
Esther Rowles
Sep 8, 2013
Esther Lorrayne Rowles, age 95, of Amberson, PA, passed away on Sunday, September 8, 2013 at the Falling Spring Nursing and Rehab Center after a brief illness. Born in Amberson on November 12, 1917, she was the daughter of the late Charles S. and Gertrude Piper Wilson. Mrs. Rowles was a life-long resident of Amberson where she had lived in...
Martha "Ann" Dile
Sep 7, 2013
Martha “Ann” Dile, 84, formerly of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Saturday afternoon, September 7, 2013 at The Village of Laurel Run, Fayetteville, PA. Born March 28, 1929 in Scotland, PA, she was a daughter of the late George “Clyde” and Bessie E. Stine Myers. A 1947 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School, Mrs. Dile worked for more than forty...
Marjorie Christie
Sep 6, 2013
Marjorie M. Christie, age 74, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Friday, September 6, 2013 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born September 14, 1938 in Elkhart, IN, she was the daughter of the late Charles W. and Anna Kalman Slack. A registered nurse, Mrs. Christie worked for a number of years in the former Leader nursing home and then on to...
Kathryn Yanchuk
Aug 31, 2013
Kathryn Marilyn Yanchuk, age 76, of Chambersburg, PA passed away on Saturday, August 31, 2013 at Manor Care Nursing Home. Born July 10, 1937 in Boston, MA, she was the daughter of the late William and Florence Layton Driscoll. Mrs. Yanchuk was a homemaker most of her working years, she enjoyed caring for her family and taking care of their...
Hazel Hile
Aug 30, 2013
Hazel B. “Sis” Diffenderfer Hile, 83, of Chambersburg, died on Friday, August 30, 2013 in Manor Care Health Services, Chambersburg. Born July 16, 1930 in Hamilton Township, she was a daughter of the late James E. and Helen Upperman Diffenderfer. She had been employed as a seamstress at the former J. Schoeneman Company in Chambersburg for fifty years. Mrs. Hile...
Glen Cump
Aug 30, 2013
Glen L. Cump, 99, formerly of Greencastle, PA, died Friday afternoon, August 30, 2013 at Penn Hall Nursing Center. Born June 6, 1914 in Marion, PA, he was a son of the late Roy L. and Anna Cordell Cump. A 1932 graduate of the Greencastle High School, Glen served with the US Navy during WWII. Early in his life he...
Margaret Nelson
Aug 29, 2013
On Thursday, August 29, 2013, Margaret Bradley Nelson passed from this world to be with our heavenly Father. She was born September 1, 1926 to Fulton and Lennie Bradley, in Jackson, NC. She was married to R.V. Nelson, the love of her life, on August 2, 1947. He preceded her in death on September 4, 2011. Margaret attended Peace College...
Clifford Kaiser
Aug 29, 2013
Clifford G. Kaiser, Sr., 90, of Fayetteville, PA, died Thursday morning, August 29, 2013 at The Village of Laurel Run. Born March 17, 1923 in Mercersburg, he was a son of the late Boyd and Anna Mary Jones Kaiser. Early in his life he owned and operated Kaiser’s Sawmill. He retired in 1985 from Manitowoc (formerly Grove Manufacturing) where he...
Ruby Kern
Aug 29, 2013
Ruby F. Kern, 92, formerly of Scotland, PA, went to be with her Lord on Thursday August 29, 2013 at Transitions Healthcare, Gettysburg, PA. Born October 26, 1920 in Ono, PA, she was a daughter of the late Herman Dittmer and Sarah Elizabeth Wonder Allison. Early in her life, she had worked as a seamstress at sewing factories in Lebanon...
Bridget Jansen
Aug 27, 2013
Bridget M. Jansen, 59, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away Tuesday, August 27, 2013. Born in Appleton, WI, Bridget was a retiree of Highmark, Blue Shield in Camp Hill, PA and volunteered at the Highmark Caring Place for Grieving Children in Lemoyne, PA. She is survived by her parents, Mark and Margaret “Sally” Jansen, Fayetteville, PA; two sisters and four brothers,...
C. William Koons
Aug 27, 2013
C. William “Bill” Koons, age 94, formerly of Grandview Avenue, Chambersburg, PA, passed away Tuesday evening, August 27, 2013 at Penn Hall Nursing Center. Born December 24, 1918 in Mont Alto, PA, he was the son of the late Charles Frank and Ruth I. Saylor Koons. Bill was a member of the Class of 1937 at the former Chambersburg High...
Violet Cowan
Aug 26, 2013
Violet P. Cowan, 83, of Chambersburg and formerly of Fannettsburg, PA died Monday, August 26, 2013 in the Chambersburg Hospital surrounded by her family. Violet had been in declining health. Born June 6, 1930 in Hustontown, Fulton County, PA; she was the daughter of the late Albert F. and Hulda E. Naugle Price. She was married on September 2, 1950...
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