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Jacklyn Fortney
Nov 16, 2020
Jacklyn Barton Fortney, 65, of Chambersburg, passed away on Monday, November 16, 2020 at her home. Born October 14, 1955 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Robert R. Barton, Sr. and Miriam L. Hefflefinger Barton. Jacklyn was a graduate of Chambersburg Area Senior High School. She was employed at Ventura Foods, The Moose Lodge 842 and most...
Mary Anne Gladden
Nov 15, 2020
Mrs. Mary Anne (Oyler) Gladden, 77, of Chambersburg, PA passed away Sunday, November 15, 2020 in the Chambersburg Hospital Emergency Room. Born July 11, 1943 in Chamberburg she was the daughter of the late Geyer Reichard and Dorthea (Kimple) Oyler. She was a graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School with the Class of 1960. Mrs. Gladden then went...
Debra Rosenberry
Nov 13, 2020
Debra F. Rosenberry, 62, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Friday morning, November 13, 2020 at her home. Born March 26, 1958 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of June Tolbert Bowling of Chambersburg and the late Robert L. Bowling. Debra was a 1977 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School. She was last employed at the Ingram Book Company...
Betty Plyler
Nov 13, 2020
There is a joyful reunion in Heaven today as our mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother and Great, Great-Grandmother will be missed. Betty Jane Swan Simpson Plyler passed peacefully on November 13, 2020 at Laurel Lakes Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was 97 years old. Born May 8, 1923 on the family farm in Alexandria, PA, she was the daughter of the late...
Lucy Dively
Nov 12, 2020
Lucy [Roden] Dively of Chambersburg, Friedens and Stoke-on-Trent, England died on November 12th, 2020. She was cremated. An internment will be in the spring of 2021 in Stoystown, PA. Lucy was one of 15 children [12 survived] of an obviously good Catholic family [although I was directed to say Lucy’s mother was a Methodist]. Lucy deeply loved her family and...
Robert Lister
Nov 12, 2020
Mr. Robert Thomas Lister, 92, of Fayetteville, PA and formerly of Pocahontas County, WV passed away Thursday, November 12, 2020 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born November 10, 1928 in Cleveland, OH he was the son of the late Victor and Frances (Farren) Lister. He was a graduate of the Shaker Heights High School, Ohio. Mr. Lister went on to obtain...
Leonard Horn
Nov 11, 2020
Leonard Lee Horn, 65, of Upper Strasburg, passed away on Wednesday, November 11, 2020. Born September 14, 1955 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Clifford and Mildred Pool Horn. Leonard was a 1974 graduate of Chambersburg Area Senior High School. From a young man he worked in the logging business and was the owner/operator of Horn’s Saw...
Brenda Fisher
Nov 11, 2020
Brenda Joy (Ferringer) Fisher, 75, of Chambersburg, PA, went to be with her Heavenly Father on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at her home with her family by her side, after a 4 year battle with Melanoma. Born October 8, 1945 in Punxsutawney, PA, she was the daughter of Julia (Lake) Ferringer and the late Raymond Ferringer. Brenda was a graduate...
Mary Lou Shoop
Nov 10, 2020
Mary Lou Witmer Shoop, a resident of Chambersburg and more recently of Mercersburg, passed away on November 10, 2020, at the ChambersPointe Health Care Center. Born in Grafton, located in Black Lick Township, Indiana County, PA on December 10, 1927, she was the daughter of Hazel Sylvia Shields Witmer and Harold Arnold Witmer. She married Wayne Henderson Shoop on June...
Rose Anne Barr
Nov 10, 2020
Rose Anne Barr, 90, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at SpiriTrust Lutheran, The Village at Luther Ridge. Born November 1, 1930 in Sandusky, OH, she was the daughter of the late William H. and Dorothy Ebert Fitzgerald. Her beloved husband, Richard G. Barr, preceded her in death on July 26, 2003. Rose Anne spent most...
Howard Cowgill
Nov 10, 2020
Howard L. Cowgill, 77, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Tuesday morning, November 10, 2020 at Laurel Lakes Wellness and Rehabilitation Center. Born January 12, 1943 in Cumberland, MD, he was a son of the late Argyl M. and Lena P. Gloyd Cowgill. Howard was a graduate of the Paw Paw High School in Paw Paw, WV. He was employed at...
Paula Marquez
Nov 8, 2020
Mrs. Paula E. (Howard) Marquez, 64, of Chambersburg, PA passed away Sunday, November 8, 2020 surrounded by her loved ones. She was born January 16, 1956 in Oakland, Ca becoming the fourth daughter to Gary E. Howard (Connie) of Arizona and the late Phyllis E. (Garvine) Howard. As a child Paula’s father was in the Navy, stationed in Guam and...
Ernest Dawson
Nov 7, 2020
Mr. Ernest Dawson, Sr., 79, of Chambersburg, PA passed away Saturday, November 7, 2020 in Laurel Lakes Wellness Center. Born December 28, 1940 in Bartow, FL he was the son of the late Rebecca Baker. He was employed as a welder for many years at Grove Manufacturing. After retiring from Grove, Mr. Dawson was employed in maintenance at Letterkenny Army...
Kay Smith
Nov 7, 2020
Kay Irene (Farner) Smith, wife of Jay Keagle Smith Sr. passed away on November 7, 2020. Daughter of the late Homer M. and Nellie I. Farner, she was born and raised in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. A 1960 graduate of Shippensburg Area Senior High School, she then attended the Goldey-Beacom School of Business in Wilmington, Delaware, graduating in 1961. Following her education,...
Jean Rieck
Nov 5, 2020
Jean Elizabeth Geisel Rieck, age 71, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Thursday, November 5, 2020, at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born June 20, 1949, in Elkhart, IN, she was the daughter of the late Henry and Mary Lewis Geisel. Jean worked as an elementary school librarian, retiring from the Chambersburg School District in 2005 after 23 years. She earned her...
Shawn Johnson
Nov 5, 2020
Shawn D. Johnson age 43, of Chambersburg, PA passed away on Thursday, November 5, 2020, at Transitions Health Care in Gettysburg. Born March 10, 1977, in Chambersburg, PA, he was the son of Linda Chronister Johnson and the late John Johnson. Shawn grew up in the Chambersburg Area School District. He worked as a stocker in the grocery business and...
Lisa Byers
Nov 4, 2020
A very special person, Mrs. Lisa A. Byers, of Chambersburg, was promoted to heaven on Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at her home after a long illness. Born May 28, 1961 to the parents of the late James A. Diehl and Wanda (Howsare) Diehl. Lisa was a 1979 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School and a 1984 graduate of...
Betty Monastra
Nov 4, 2020
Betty E. Monastra, age 92, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Wednesday, November 4, 2020, at the Shook Home. Born August 1, 1928, in Chambersburg, PA, she was the daughter of the late John and Ethel Wingert Sweigert. Mrs. Monastra worked at the former Stanley Company as a Press Operator and Seamstress for 30 years, after she married her late...
Gary Osler
Nov 3, 2020
Mr. Gary Lee Osler, Sr., 74, of Paramount Nursing and Rehab, Fayetteville, PA passed away Tuesday, November 3, 2020 in the nursing home. Born October 23, 1946 in Chambersburg, PA he was the son of the late Charles and Betty (Shaffer) Osler. He was raised by his grandparents the late Max and Hazel Shaffer. He was the owner of Universal...
Sharon Runyon
Nov 2, 2020
Sharon A. Runyon, 77, of Chambersburg, passed away on Monday, November 2, 2020 at her home. Born June 24, 1943 in West Nyack, NY, she was the daughter of the late Hector and Dorothy Gedbaw Hutt. Sharon was employed at F&M Trust for 33 years until her retirement in 2006. She was a member of Corpus Christi Catholic Church. She...
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