Obituaries
Recent Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Chambersburg, PA & Greater Franklin County

Peyton Truett
Aug 25, 2013
Peyton A.Z. Truett, age 4, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Sunday, August 25, 2013 in the emergency room of Chambersburg Hospital. Born September 9, 2008 in Chambersburg, he was a son of Richard Thomas Truett, Jr. and Cherie M. Stoner. Peyton attended The Ark Child Development Center and Kindercare in Chambersburg as well as the Chambersburg First Church of God....

Gordon Brown
Aug 25, 2013
Gordon Michael “Mike” Brown, age 60, of Chambersburg, PA passed away on Sunday, August 25, 2013 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born June 16, 1953 in Japan, he was the son of the late James Gordon and Esther Decker Brown. A 1971 graduate of the McConnellsburg High School, he went on to serve in the U.S. Air Force, where he learned...

Thomas Kohler
Aug 23, 2013
Thomas E. Kohler, Sr., 71, of Chambersburg, PA, went to be with The Lord Friday, August 23, 2013 in Chambersburg Hospital. Born September 16, 1941 in Chambersburg, he was the son of Janet Shughart Kohler and her late husband Hughie E. Kohler. Mr. Kohler worked as a supervisor at the Scotland School for Veteran’s Children until his retirement in 1992...

Jane MacWilliams
Aug 23, 2013
Jane Elizabeth Hoover MacWilliams, age 89, of Chambersburg, PA passed away on Friday, August 23, 2013, in the Chambersburg, Hospital. Born October 30, 1923 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Joseph S. and Lillian Helfrick Hoover. A 1941 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School, Mrs. MacWilliams went on to work at Letterkenny Army Depot and then...

Erma Glass
Aug 21, 2013
Erma Mae Glass, 86, of Orrtanna, PA, and formerly of Downingtown, PA, entered into God's eternal care on August 21, 2013, after a brief illness at the Chambersburg Hospital. Erma was born on December 2, 1926, in Altoona, PA, the only daughter of the late Harry and Viola (Nearhoof) Deitz. For 50 years she was the loving and caring wife...

Candice Cuff
Aug 20, 2013
Candice E. Cuff, age 40, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Tuesday, August 20, 2013 in the York Hospital. Born January 15, 1973, she was the daughter of William E. Cuff and the late Janet D. Keith Cuff. A 1991 graduate of the James Buchanan Senior High School, Candice went on to work for Summit Health Physician Services, working in...

Baden Rininger
Aug 13, 2013
Baden A. Rininger, age 8, of Shippensburg, PA, passed away at the Hershey Medical Center on Tuesday, August 13, 2013. Born in Chambersburg on June 23, 2005, he was a son of Brett A. Rininger and Tara Harris. Baden loved motorcycles, cars, monster trucks, fishing, remote control cars, four-wheeling, and sports; especially, the Philadelphia Eagles. In addition to his parents,...

Glenn Wingert
Aug 11, 2013
Glenn A. Wingert, 91, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Sunday evening, August 11, 2013 at his home. Born August 18, 1921 in St. Thomas, PA, he was a son of the late Edward B. and Esther C. Burkhart Wingert. Mr. Wingert owned and operated Wingert’s Village Auto Sales for 36 years. He was currently a member of St. James United...

Clyde Lehman
Aug 11, 2013
Clyde H. Lehman, age 90, of Chambersburg, PA died Sunday, August 11, 2013 at his home. Born January 27, 1923 in Chambersburg, he was the son of the late Daniel and Mary Horst Lehman. He attended the former Portico School. Mr. Lehman was a farmer his entire life. He was a charter member and building trustee of the present Strasburg...

Marion Strickler
Aug 10, 2013
Marion Elizabeth Howard Strickler, 86, of Chambersburg, died Saturday, August 10, 2013 at Menno Haven Nursing Home. Marion was born to the late Marion and Laura Howard on May 14, 1927 in Hornell, NY. She graduated from Penn Hall Preparatory School. She received her B.S. in Retail and Merchandising from Drexel University in Philadelphia in 1949. Marion was the co-owner...

Margaret Ricchi
Aug 10, 2013
Margaret Jean Ricchi, age 81 of Fayetteville, PA and formerly of Oswego, NY, passed away on Saturday, August 10, 2013 at the Village of Laurel Run. Born March 31, 1932 in Oswego, NY , she was the daughter of the late George and Jane Matott Famularo. A Homemaker, Jean enjoyed spending time with her family. She enjoyed antiquing, bird watching,...

Sheila Graham
Aug 9, 2013
Sheila M. Graham, age 50, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away unexpectedly in the Chambersburg Hospital on Friday, August 9, 2013. Born in Chambersburg on November 25, 1962, she was the daughter of the late Bertis Dale and Dorothy O’Donnel Keefer. Sheila worked at NMS Healthcare in Hagerstown as a nurse. She enjoyed spending time with her family, her church family,...

Ronald Miley
Aug 4, 2013
Ronald L. Miley, Sr., age 67, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Sunday, August 4, 2013 surrounded by his family in the Waynesboro Hospital. Born in Chambersburg on December 27, 1945, he was the son of the late David F., Sr. and Arabella Kyler Miley Ron attended Greencastle Antrim School District. He went on to receive his G.E.D. from the...

Roberta Funderwhite
Aug 4, 2013
Roberta M. Funderwhite, age 62, of Amberson, PA and formerly of Phoenixville passed away in the Hershey Medical Center on Sunday, August 4, 2013. Born June 7, 1951 in Phoenixville, PA, she was the daughter of Helen E. Roberts Funderwhite and the late Robert Funderwhite. Ms. Funderwhite was a 1969 graduate of Downingtown High School. She was employed as a...

Bonnie Donley
Aug 1, 2013
Bonnie M. Donley, 78, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Thursday evening, August 1, 2013 at Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born June 16, 1935 in Harrisonburg, VA, she was a daughter of the late Garnet and Lillian Cootes Sleighter. Early in her life, Bonnie was employed at the former Tracy Fashions and the Stanley Company. She was last employed...

James Staude
Aug 1, 2013
James E. Staude, 86, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away peacefully, Thursday evening, August 1, 2013 at his home. Born January 23, 1927 in Pittsburgh, PA, he was a son of the late Oswald and Freda Robinson Staude. Mr. Staude served in the US Army during WWII and retired from the Gulf Oil Corporation. He was a member of Mt. Pleasant...

Edith Shoop
Aug 1, 2013
Edith Kathleen “Dolly” Shoop, 93, of Chambersburg, PA, died Thursday morning, August 1, 2013 at Menno Haven. Born April 27, 1920 in Nyesville, PA, she was a daughter of the late Eber Jacob Wenger and Grace Lenora Hammond Wenger. Her husband, Glenn Abram Shoop preceded her in death on July 11, 1983. Dolly worked at the former Stanley Co. as...

Lois Mills
Jul 31, 2013
Lois Edna Mills, 88, of New Franklin, PA, went to be with her Lord on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at Chambersburg Hospital. Born September 10, 1924 in Hopewell, PA, she was a daughter of the late Clayton and Alma Bollman Ritchey. A graduate of Robert P. Smith High School in Hopewell, Mrs. Mills worked early in her life at the...

Florence Purnell
Jul 27, 2013
Florence E. Purnell, age 77, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away in her home on Saturday, July 27, 2013 with her family by her side. Born April 25, 1936 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late George W. and Mildred S. Helman Christman. A 1954 graduate of the former Chambersburg High school, Mrs. Purnell went on to work at...

J. Earl Dibert
Jul 26, 2013
J. Earl Dibert, age 84, former resident of Chambersburg, PA had his Heavenly homecoming on Friday, July 26, 2013, while a resident at Somerford Frederick, MD. Born April 16, 1929, he was the oldest son of Joseph and Daisy Grimes Dibert of Everett, PA. Upon graduating Everett High School, Earl served on the mission field in Nigeria for two years...