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Local Obituaries for Chambersburg, PA & Greater Franklin County

Brenda Greenawalt

Brenda Greenawalt

Oct 12, 2021

Brenda J. Greenawalt, 70, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Tuesday, October 12, 2021. Born August 24, 1951, in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late George Rennis and Jean Fannie Etter Fox. Brenda was a 1969 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School and then was employed for 20 years at the former Stanley Company. She then supervised...

Dorothy Yocum

Dorothy Yocum

Oct 11, 2021

Dorothy V. Yocum, 91, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Monday morning, October 11, 2021 at the Shook Home. Born March 6, 1930 in East Waterford, PA, she was a daughter of the late Joseph and Ada Harmon Darling. She was the food service manager at the former People’s Drug Store in Chambersburg for many years. She loved cats and supported...

Nancy Myers

Nancy Myers

Oct 11, 2021

Nancy J. Myers, 85, of Chambersburg, passed away on Monday, October 11, 2021 in her home with her family by her side. Born August 1, 1936 in Bedford County, PA, she was the daughter of the late Walter and Ruby (Foor) Miller and widow to the late Rev. Sampson R. Myers, who passed away on July 1, 2017. Nancy was...

Aaron Silver

Aaron Silver

Oct 11, 2021

Aaron E. Silver, 51, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Monday, October 11, 2021 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born January 21, 1970 at Fort Rucker, AL, he was a son of Irvin E. “Gene” and Teresa Davison Silver. Aaron was a graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School and went on to earn a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from West...

Betty Danzberger

Betty Danzberger

Oct 10, 2021

Betty M. (Miller) Danzberger of Spirit Lutheran, 2781 Luther Drive Chambersburg, PA passed away on October 10, 2021. Born on the family farm in Waynecastle, PA on December 8, 1925, she was the only daughter of Melchor Snively and Mary (Mayhugh) Miller. In her early years she attended Hill Grove school before the family moved to Greencastle in 1940. She...

Harold Lynch

Harold Lynch

Oct 10, 2021

Harold M. Lynch, 64, of Ft. Loudon, PA, passed away October 10, 2021 at home. Born August 7, 1957 at the Chambersburg Hospital, he was the son of the late Harold M. Lynch, Sr. and Alva L. (Clayton) Lynch. He worked at the former Loewengart Company Tannery of Mercersburg, E.C. Barnes of St. Thomas, was a self-employed roofer for many...

John Westerfield

John Westerfield

Oct 9, 2021

John Carson Westerfield, 86, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Saturday evening, October 9, 2021 at his home. Born August 12, 1935 in Laurel County, KY, he was a son of the late Leonard A. and Beatrice R. Mullins Westerfield. John was a graduate of Ahrens Trade High School in Louisville, KY and went on to earn an Associate Degree in...

Juanita Cordell

Juanita Cordell

Oct 8, 2021

Juanita K. Cordell, 73, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Friday, October 8, 2021 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born August 9, 1948 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Ralph M. Myers, Jr. and Ruth K. Stoner Myers. She had been employed for more than 30 years at the former J. Schoeneman Company in Chambersburg and then worked for...

Gerald Pool

Gerald Pool

Oct 8, 2021

Gerald J. Pool, 85, of Fort Loudon, PA went home to be with his Lord Jesus Friday, October 8, 2021 in the UPMC West Shore Hospital, Mechanicsburg, PA. Born July 4, 1936 in McConnellsburg, PA he was the son of the late Russell Pool, Sr. and Velma B. (Mellott) Pool. He was employed as an apple harvester for Mountain-Brook Orchard...

Hector Melendez Rivera

Hector Melendez Rivera

Oct 8, 2021

Hector Luis Melendez Rivera, age 42, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away unexpectedly at UPMC Memorial Hospital in York, PA on Friday, October 8, 2021. Born in Byamon, Puerto Rico on September 2, 1979, he was the son of Hector Luis Melendez and Rosa Maria Rivera. Hector worked at World Kitchens for the last eight years. He was a member of...

Isabelle Doughten

Isabelle Doughten

Oct 8, 2021

Isabelle R. (Miner) Doughten, 91, of Chambersburg, PA passed away on Friday, October 8, 2021 at the Waynesboro Hospital. Born December 18, 1929 in Maiden Creek near Reading, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of the late Allen J. and Olevia M. (Claudy) Miner. She was employed at the Stanley Company in Chambersburg as a seamstress for 35 years. Isabelle was...

Harold Lehman

Harold Lehman

Oct 6, 2021

Harold L. Lehman, 82 of Shippensburg, PA passed away Wednesday, October 6, 2021 in his home. Born October 2, 1939 in Chambersburg, PA he was the son of the late Roy and Verda (Stouffer) Lehman. He was employed as a farmer in his earlier years. Later in life Harold was an electrician at Wilson College, Chambersburg, retiring after over 20...

Larry Bietsch

Larry Bietsch

Oct 5, 2021

Larry Bietsch, age 77, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away at the Chambersburg Hospital on Tuesday, October 5, 2021. Born February 13, 1944, in Chambersburg, PA, he was the son of the late Merle K. and Helen R. Bailey Bietsch. Larry worked at the former H.J. Heinz Company until it’s closure and then at T.B. Woods, and finally Ty Construction, where...

Jay Upperman

Jay Upperman

Oct 5, 2021

Jay T. Upperman, 91, of Chambersburg, PA, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 at Chambers Pointe Menno Haven. Born March 24, 1930 in Chambersburg, he was the son of the late Oliver and Elizabeth Martin Upperman. Jay was a 1949 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School. A US Air Force Veteran, Jay...

Joan Styer

Joan Styer

Oct 4, 2021

Joan H. Styer, age 77, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away on Monday, October 4, 2021, at home on the Greenwood Hills Bible Conference grounds. Born June 30, 1944, in Philadelphia, PA, she was the daughter of the late John and Raymondé Harding. She held many jobs during her lifetime, the first at Penn Mutual Insurance Co. in Philadelphia, she worked...

Margaret Heckman

Margaret Heckman

Oct 4, 2021

Margaret I. (Isenberger) Heckman, 96, of Chambersburg, PA passed away Monday, October 4, 2021 in ManorCare Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Chambersburg. Born February 21, 1925 in Chambersburg she was the daughter of the late David G. and Carrie G. (Musselman) Isenberger. In her early life she was employed at Stanley Company and Knouse Foods both in Chambersburg. Margaret was then...

Elizabeth "Betty" Shipp

Elizabeth "Betty" Shipp

Oct 4, 2021

Elizabeth “Betty” Tice Shipp, 88, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Monday evening, October 4, 2021 at her home. Born January 18, 1933 in Chambersburg she was the daughter of the late Edgar N. and Ruth Eyer Tice. Betty was a 1950 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School. She at one time drove a school bus and was then...

Charlotte Becker

Charlotte Becker

Oct 2, 2021

Charlotte Gladys Strawser Becker, 92, of Chambersburg, passed away on Saturday, October 2, 2021 at her home. Born January 16, 1929, she was the daughter of the late Allen Norman Strawser and Eva May (Beck) Strawser. Her beloved husband, Rowland A. Becker, whom she married on March 15, 1952, preceded her in death on January 4, 2012. Charlotte was a...

Nina Goodrum

Nina Goodrum

Oct 2, 2021

Nina R. Goodrum, 53, of Greenscastle, passed away on Saturday, October 2, 2021 in the Milton Hershey Medical Center. Born on April 19, 1968 in California, she was a daughter of the late Virginia Lee Raynor and Joe Park. She was the widow of Charles Goodrum who preceded her in death in February 2021. Surviving her are four children, Craig...