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Virgil Davis
Nov 29, 2020
Virgil J. Davis, 67, of Chambersburg, passed away on Sunday, November 29, 2020 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born September 22, 1953 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Donald H. and Ethel Pittman Davis. His beloved wife, Crystal Steele Davis, preceded him in death on December 7, 1998. Virgil was a 1973 graduate of CASHS. Early in his...
William Hammond
Nov 29, 2020
William A. Hammond, Sr., 79, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Sunday, November 29, 2020 at his home. Born April 10, 1941 in Spring Run, he was a son of the late Nelson and Matilda Happle Hammond. Mr. Hammond was employed for many years with the Carpenter’s Union Local #616, retiring April 10, 2003. He was a member of the Cornerstone...
Leonard Speers
Nov 28, 2020
Leonard E. Speers, 72, of Fayetteville, PA, unexpectantly went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, November 28, 2020 while in Florida with his family. Leonard was born December 5, 1947 and grew up in Fairport, NY; he was the son of the late Harold and Irene (De Groot) Speers. He was a 1966 graduate of Fairport High School...
Edith Schaffer
Nov 28, 2020
Edith A. Schaffer, 90, formerly of Bender Avenue in Chambersburg, PA, passed away peacefully on Saturday, November 28, 2020 at Chambers Pointe with her husband at her side. Born January 20, 1930 in Palmerton, PA, she was a daughter of the late Raymond and Sarah Borger Silfies. Mrs. Schaffer was a 1947 graduate of the Palmerton High School and went...
Blanca Romero
Nov 28, 2020
Blanca Iris Romero, 64, of Shippensburg, passed away on Saturday, November 28, 2020 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born January 30, 1956 in Brooklyn, NY she was a daughter of Olga Villanueva Monroig and the late Luis A. Monroig. Blanca was a 1974 graduate of James Madison High School in Brooklyn, NY. She worked in property management in the local area...
Garry Cook
Nov 28, 2020
Garry L. Cook, 76, of Chambersburg, passed away on Saturday, November 28, 2020 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born September 9, 1944 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late John Leroy and Hazel Fitzgerald Cook. Garry was a1963 graduate of CASHS. A US Army veteran, Garry served honorably during the Vietnam War. He was employed as a heavy equipment...
Kathryn Schmidt
Nov 27, 2020
Kathryn Schmidt, 65, of Chambersburg, passed away on Friday, November 27, 2020 in her home. Born December 6, 1954 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Richard and Lois (Moriarty) Holden, and widow to the late Richard Schmidt, who preceded her in death on January 8, 2008. Kathryn earned her Bachelors in Science from Penn State University and...
Carl Lininger
Nov 27, 2020
It is with great happiness and joy that Carl Eugene “Buck” Lininger has passed into the Presence of his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Friday, November 27, 2020. Born July 23, 1926, in Chambersburg, PA, he was the son of the late Guy and Margaret (Scharr) Lininger. Loved and adored by his family! He is survived by his loving...
Connie Armijo
Nov 26, 2020
Connie D. Armijo, 73, of Chambersburg, passed away on Thursday, November 26, 2020 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born January 20, 1947 in Sullivan, IN, she was a daughter of the late George Allen Ellinger and Rosemary Watson Ellinger. Her beloved husband, Joe Armijo, preceded her in death on February 14, 2008. Connie was employed as a nurse at Gerald Champion...
Laura Wishard
Nov 26, 2020
Laura H. Rowe Wishard, 84, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away Thursday morning, November 26, 2020 at Paramount Senior Living Center. Born September 24, 1936 in Fayetteville, she was a daughter of the late Wayne B. and Gladys P. Swope Rowe. A homemaker most of her life, Laura was a life member of the Fayetteville Volunteer Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary and...
Kathy Horton
Nov 26, 2020
Kathy Marie Horton, 56, of Scotland, PA, passed away peacefully on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2020. Born March 5, 1964 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter to the late Donald R. and Doris J. (Zeger) Horton. She is survived by three brothers; David Rubeck and wife Sydney, Larry Rubeck and wife Carol Sue, and Stephen Horton and wife Lisa; two...
Jeffery Shade
Nov 25, 2020
Mr. Jeffery L. “Jeff” Shade, 66, of Chambersburg, PA passed away Wednesday, November 25, 2020. Born January 15, 1954 in Chambersburg he was the son of the late John Shade and Dorothy “Peg” (Saunders) Appel. He was a graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School with the Class of 1973. Jeff was employed as a mechanic for Flohrs Pools...
Melvin Piper
Nov 25, 2020
Melvin J. Piper, Jr., 93, of Chamberburg, died on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born on March 19, 1927 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Melvin and Elouise Piper. He was the widower of Delores Fritz Piper, who preceded him in death on July 4, 2018. Melvin attended Chambersburg Schools and served with the...
Robert Peterson
Nov 24, 2020
Robert G. “Jerry” Peterson, 79, of Chambersburg, passed away on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at his home. Born March 12, 1941 in Dry Run, PA, he was the son of the late Elmer and Thelma Love Peterson. A US Navy veteran, Jerry served honorably aboard the USS Shangri La during the Vietnam War. He was employed is security, the last...
Samuel Wenger
Nov 23, 2020
Samuel Earl Wenger, III of Frederick, Maryland, was born on November 20, 1957 in Chambersburg, PA, to Samuel E. Wenger, Jr., and Helen (Graham) Wenger, the third of six children and the eldest son. On Monday, November 23, 2020, just three days after his 63rd birthday, he died suddenly while hunting in one of his favorite places on earth, Smokehole,...
Carolyn Shearer
Nov 23, 2020
Carolyn K. Shearer, 78, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Monday afternoon, November 23, 2020 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born December 10, 1941 in Warren, Ohio, she was a daughter of the late Howard Milton and Nellie Springer Kurtzman. A graduate of Champion High School in Warren, OH, she went on to attend the College of Wooster where she met and...
Earnest Sprow
Nov 23, 2020
Mr. Earnest D. “Dan” Sprow, 89, of Fayetteville, PA passed away Monday, November 23, 2020 in The Shook Home, Chambersburg where he had resided for the past two years. Born September 14, 1931 in Chambersburg he was the son of the late John and Ruth (Dull) Sprow. He was a graduate of Chambersburg High School with the Class of 1949....
Mary Rine
Nov 22, 2020
Mary “Gaga” Alice (Amicone) Rine of Chambersburg, PA, passed away with her husband by her side on Sunday, November 22, 2020 in Chambersburg, after a brave battle with cancer. She was born May 10, 1960 to Ray Amicone and Ruth (Reinoehl) Amicone in Chester, PA. She was a 1978 graduate of CASHS. She earned her undergraduate degree at Penn State...
Patricia Bixler
Nov 22, 2020
Patricia S. (Miller) Bixler, 76, of Chambersburg, passed away on Sunday, November 11, 2020 in Menno Haven-Chambers Pointe. Born on August 1, 1944 in Mechanicsburg, PA, she was a daughter of the late Harry Miller and Helen (Small) Miller. She was the widow of Kenneth L. Bixler, whom she married on November 1, 1980. He preceded her in death on...
D. Eugene Gayman
Nov 21, 2020
D. Eugene Gayman, age 89, Chambersburg, son of the late Harry Alvin Gayman and Catharine Elizabeth (Niswander) Gayman, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, November 21, 2020, surrounded by his family at his home. Eugene was a lifelong farmer, owning and operating a 100-acre dairy farm for 50+ years. When they moved off the home farm, he...
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