Obituaries
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Local Obituaries for Chambersburg, PA & Greater Franklin County
Mary Joann Marshall
Mar 14, 2019
Mary Joann Marshall, 87, of Chambersburg, passed away on Thursday, March 14, 2019 at her home. Born March 10, 1932 in East Liberty, OH, she was the daughter of the late Gerald and Mary Horn Delong. Her beloved husband, Thomas O. Marshall, Jr., preceded her in death on January 15, 2019. A 1950 graduate of East Liberty High School, she...
James Montoy
Mar 13, 2019
James “Jim” Montoy, 55, of Greencastle, PA, passed away Wednesday, March 13, 2019 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in Chambersburg. Born June 22, 1963 at Fort Eustis, VA, he was a son of Norman Montoy of Waynesboro, PA and the late Betty J. Chimileski Montoy. Jim was a 1981 graduate of the Waynesboro Area Senior High School and...

Regina Thomas
Mar 12, 2019
Regina M. Thomas, age 88, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, at Menno Haven. Born December 25, 1930, in Chambersburg, PA, she was the daughter of the late Earl and Mary Peters Fogal. Mrs. Thomas was a 1949 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School. She was a homemaker most of her adult life, caring for...

Anna Cook
Mar 12, 2019
Anna S. Cook, age 85, of Scotland, PA, passed away on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, at Penn Hall Nursing Center. Born December 1, 1933, in South Mountain, PA, she was the daughter of the late Curvin W. and Lottie Shaffer Stambaugh. Mrs. Cook was a 1952 graduate of the former Quincy High School. She had an extensive career working in...
Randy Plyler
Mar 12, 2019
Randy James Plyler, age 62, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away at the Chambersburg Hospital on Tuesday, March 12, 2019. Born May 22, 1956, in Chambersburg, PA, he was the son of Elisabeth Lesher Plyler and the late James Plyler. Randy was a 1974 graduate of CASHS. He went on to work for Volvo Construction Equipment, where he worked for 25...
Edna Miller
Mar 11, 2019
Edna Mae Miller, 96, formerly of Chambersburg, died on Monday, March 11, 2019 in Melbourne, Florida. Born in 1922 in Lima, Ohio, to George and Clara Kempher, she graduated from the schools of Allen County, Ohio, and worked in the war effort at Westinghouse Corporation helping to build radios for military aircraft. On June 24, 1944, at Cairo, Ohio, she...

Gene Gellman
Mar 10, 2019
GENE A. GELLMAN (January 19, 1947 – March 10, 2019) FAYETTEVILLE, PA and THE VILLAGES, FL -- Gene Gellman passed away peacefully at his Fayetteville home on Sunday, March 10 at the age of 72. Born in Richmond Borough, New York, NY, he was the son of the late Irving and Vesta C. (Rauber) Gellman. Gene is survived by his...
Georgianna Rosenberry
Mar 9, 2019
It breaks our hearts to say our mother, Georgianna (Goodhart) Rosenberry, passed away on Saturday, March 9, 2019. Born May 3, 1945 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Betty V. Holtry Hughes and George C. Goodhart. Georgianna was a 1964 CASHS graduate. She married her high school sweetheart, Robert Allen Rosenberry, whom preceded her in death on...
Lawrence Rosenberry
Mar 8, 2019
Lawrence H. Rosenberry, Jr., 83, of Chambersburg, passed away peacefully Friday morning, March 8, 2019 at Menno Haven while surrounded by his family. Born October 10, 1935 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Lawrence H., Sr. and Zelda Guyer Rosenberry. He was a 1954 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School and served with the United States...
Doris Hoffman
Mar 8, 2019
Doris J. Hoffman, 82, of Fayetteville, PA passed away on Friday, March 8, 2019 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born July 13, 1936 in Everett, PA, she was a daughter of the late Joseph “Roy” Dishong and Florence (Weyant) Dishong. Her beloved husband, Earl D. Hoffman, preceded her in death on July 4, 1985. Doris was a 1954 graduate of Everett...

Robert Palmer
Mar 7, 2019
Robert M. Palmer, 93, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday morning, March 7, 2019 at his home. Born May 30, 1925 in Letterkenny Township, Franklin County, he was a son of the late Jonas Charles and Sarah Grace Palmer. He was a 1943 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School and served with the US Army in the...
John Shields
Mar 6, 2019
John Harvey Shields, age 88, of Scotland, passed away on Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born in Shippensburg on October12, 1930, he was the son of the late John Orville Shields and Pearl Laura Coleman Shields. Known as John by his co-workers, he worked in the construction industry as a heavy equipment operator. He was a life...
Joyce Binggeli
Mar 4, 2019
Joyce Elaine Reineman Binggeli, 82, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away Monday morning, March 4, 2019 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born February 5, 1937 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Daniel S. and Merium G. Geiman Reineman. Joyce was a 1955 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School and had the distinction of being the first class...

Joann Hege
Mar 2, 2019
Joann Ida Hege, age 90, of Chambersburg, passed away in the early morning hours on March 2, 2019 at The Shook Home. Born September 17, 1928 near Dayton, Ohio, she was the daughter of Lawrence and Margaret Hissong Beery. She was married to Marlin Good Hege on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1956. She was a member of the Old German...
Lauren "Larry" Etter
Mar 2, 2019
Lauren “Larry” Earl Etter age 80, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 2, 2019, with his family by his side at Chambers Pointe Nursing Center. Born October 29, 1938, in Chambersburg, PA, he was the son of the late Earl Clayton and Edith Gossard Etter. A 1956 graduate of CASHS, Larry went on to serve honorably in...

Mary Jacobs
Mar 1, 2019
Mary M. Jacobs, 84, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on March 1, 2019, in her home. Born December 7, 1934, in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late John F. and A. Margaret Saum Costello. Mary was a 1952 graduate of the Catholic High of Baltimore. Following her education, she worked for the city of Baltimore, MD and then...
Glenn Lemaster
Feb 27, 2019
Glenn C. Lemaster, Sr., age 80, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away at his home on Wednesday, February 27, 2019. Born March 1, 1938, in Shippensburg, PA, he was the son of the late Luther S. and Anna Mae Bigler Lemaster. A United State Army veteran, Mr. Lemaster served honorably from 1956 to 1964. He was a self-employed truck driver for...

Henry Bonhoff
Feb 26, 2019
Henry M. Bonhoff, Jr., age 84, of Fayetteville, PA and formerly of Hagerstown, MD, passed away on Tuesday, February 26, 2019, at his home. Born July 26, 1934, in Baltimore, MD, he was the son of the late Henry M. and Madeline Hessler Bonhoff, Sr. Mr. Bonhoff worked for Bell Atlantic Telephone for 38 years, retiring in 1991, as a...

Ralph Kissel
Feb 26, 2019
Ralph R. Kissel, of Fayetteville, PA, passed peacefully at home surrounded by family after a courageous fight with frontotemporal dementia. His kindness, commitment to helping others, humor, unforgettable laugh, and deep love for his family are some of the greatest memories that will keep him in our hearts forever. Born on March 3, 1949, to the late Max Kissel, and...