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Dr. Roy Himelfarb
Apr 23, 2013
Dr. Roy A. Himelfarb, DDS, 72, of Chambersburg, PA, died Tuesday morning, April 23, 2013 at Chambersburg Hospital. Born July 11, 1940 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Dr. Hilliard M., MD and Jule Blumberg Himelfarb. Roy was a 1958 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School and a 1962 graduate of Georgetown University. He served...
Richard Cover
Apr 23, 2013
Richard K. Cover, 91, of Chambersburg, PA, died Tuesday evening, April 23, 2013 at Menno Haven. Born October 23, 1921 in Port Clinton, OH, he was the son of Guy K. and Anna D. Caspersen Cover. Mr. Cover received a degree in Business Administration from Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, OH and served in the US Army during WWII. He...
Margaret "Peggy" Kimple
Apr 23, 2013
Margaret “Peggy” Kimple, affectionately known to many as “Nan”, age 82, of Fayetteville, PA, died unexpectedly Tuesday morning, April 23, 2012 at Harrisburg Hospital. Born August 2, 1930 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Ira and Sarah Leonard Brown. A 1948 graduate of the Chambersburg High School, she worked as a cook at the former Kimple’s Restaurant...
Bruce Gipe
Apr 23, 2013
Bruce Levi Gipe, 83, of Spring Run, PA, went home to be with the Lord on his birthday, Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at his home. Born April 23, 1930 in Willow Hill, he was a son of the late Alvie D. and Mary E. Hockenberry Gipe. A US Army veteran, Bruce retired in 1980 after 30 years at Letterkenny Army...
Harry Pfister
Apr 22, 2013
Harry O. Pfister, 78, of Chambersburg, Pa, died unexpectedly Monday morning, April 22, 2013 at his home. Born November 6, 1934 in Mt. Savage, MD, he was a son of the late Henry Sr., and Dora Derrick Pfister. He retired from CAN-AM Steel after thirty years and was employed part-time at Giant on Norland Avenue in Chambersburg. Mr. Pfister was...
Isabel McKenrick
Apr 21, 2013
Isabel McKenrick, 88, of Chambersburg, PA, died Sunday morning, April 21, 2013 at The Shook Home. Born September 4, 1924 in Fayetteville, she was a daughter of the late Harry G. and Blanche Jones Mull. Mrs. McKenrick was last employed at K-Mart in Chambersburg and had previously been employed at Knouse Foods in Orrtanna, PA. She had also worked at...
Velma Weller
Apr 20, 2013
Velma B. Weller, 95, of Chambersburg, PA, died Saturday evening, April 20, 2013 at The Shook Home. Born December 20, 1917 in Edenville, she was a daughter of the late Leonard and Erma Statler Gelsinger. She had been employed at the former Stanley Company and later at Bon-Ton in Chambersburg. She was a member of First United Methodist Church. Her...
Ronald Arnold
Apr 20, 2013
Ronald E. “Ron” Arnold, 74, of Chambersburg, passed away on Saturday, April 20, 2013 in his home. Born on October 27, 1938 in Dry Run, PA, he was the son of the late Lester “Slim” E. Arnold and Annie B. Guyer Arnold. Ron attended Greenwood Hills Gospel Chapel, Fayetteville, PA. A U.S. Navy veteran, serving four years active duty and...
Clyde Johnson
Apr 20, 2013
Clyde Judson Johnson, age 82, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Saturday, April 20, 2013 in his home. Born July 23, 1930 in Johnstown, PA, he was the son of the late Ralph Herbert and Loretta Izora Kunkle Johnson. A U.S. Army veteran, Mr. Johnson served honorably during the Korean Conflict and later with the Army Reserve and PA National...
Cecil Felmlee
Apr 20, 2013
Cecil Campbell Felmlee, 86, passed away April 20, 2013 in Chambersburg Hospital. He was born May 5, 1926 in Doylesburg, PA and was the son of the late Roy E. and Mary L. Campbell Felmlee. Cecil attended Ryder’s School, a one room schoolhouse, for eight years, graduating from Fannett Township High School in 1944. Due to rheumatic fever during his...
Mollie Davis
Apr 19, 2013
Mollie Sue Davis, age 76, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Friday, April 19, 2013 at Meritus Medical Center, Hagerstown, MD. Born May 1, 1936 in Funkstown, MD, she was the daughter of the late Lloyd Alton and Joyce Virginia Spitzer Knauff. A homemaker most of her life, Mrs. Davis was a 1954 graduate of Hagerstown High School. She enjoyed...
Anna Rock
Apr 17, 2013
Anna Rebecca (Becky) Fogelsanger Rock, 86, a lifelong resident of Franklin County and a teacher in Chambersburg schools for 25 years, died on April 17, 2013 after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. Born on August 26, 1926, Becky was raised on a farm near Greencastle, Pennsylvania where her family also belonged to the Church of the Brethren. Following graduation...
Anna Rock
Apr 17, 2013
Anna Rebecca (Becky) Fogelsanger Rock, 86, a lifelong resident of Franklin County and a teacher in Chambersburg schools for 25 years, died on April 17, 2013 after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. Born on August 26, 1926, Becky was raised on a farm near Greencastle, Pennsylvania where her family also belonged to the Church of the Brethren. Following graduation...
William Hymes
Apr 16, 2013
William “Bill” Russell Hymes, J.D., age 86, of Fayetteville, PA passed away on Tuesday morning, April 16, 2013. Born March 22, 1927 in Racine, WV, he was the son of the late James and Nannie Matthews Hymes. A U.S. Navy veteran, Mr. Hymes served honorably during WWII. Mr. Hymes was a member of the VFW, Lions Club International, Shriner’s, and...
Wilbur Truett
Apr 15, 2013
Wilbur Russ Truett, Jr., 85, of Chambersburg, PA, died Monday afternoon, April 15, 2013 at Chambersburg Hospital. Born November 2, 1927 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Wilbur R., Sr. and Edna R. Thompson Truett. Russ served with the US Marine Corps during WWII and retired in 1985 from Letterkenny Army Depot as Director of Quality Assurance...
Sammy Bock
Apr 14, 2013
Sammy L. Bock, age 66, of Chambersburg, PA passed away on Sunday, April 14, 2013 in the Chambersburg Hospital surrounded by his loving family and friends. Born January 5, 1947 in Dixon, IL, he was the son of the late Edward Bock and the late Hope Large. A U.S. Air Force veteran, Sammy served honorably during the Vietnam conflict. He...
John Anderson
Apr 14, 2013
John C. Anderson, age 73, of Fayetteville, PA passed away at his home on Sunday, April 14, 2013. Born on September 29, 1939 in Waynesboro, PA, John was the last surviving member of his family. He is preceded in death by his parents, Floyd Anderson and Frances Anderson Lanehart, and his sister, Betty Jo Dresser. John worked as a materials...
Benjamin Holtry
Apr 13, 2013
Benjamin B. Holtry, Sr., 77 of Chambersburg, PA, died Saturday morning, April 13, 2013 at his home. Born September 28, 1935 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Harvey and Sarah Hendricks Holtry. Mr. Holtry retired from Harrisburg Dairies, formerly Dairy Maid, after 30 years of service. He was a member of the Chambersburg First Church of God...
Martine Rosenberry
Apr 11, 2013
Martine E. Felton Rosenberry, age 85 of Chambersburg, PA passed away on Saturday, April 13, 2013 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Born April 30, 1927 in Everett, PA, she was the daughter of the late Samuel and Mildred Boor Felton of Breezewood, PA. A 1945 graduate of Everett High School, Mrs. Rosenberry went on to work for Letterkenny...
Fred Boss
Apr 10, 2013
Fred E. Boss, 81, of Chambersburg, PA, died Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at Chambersburg Hospital. He was a son of the late Raymond E. and Alice Smith Boss. A 1949 graduate of Clairton High School, he went on to study commercial art at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1951 with a Commercial Art Degree. Furthering his education, he...
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