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Michael Rosenberry
Mar 18, 2018
Michael W. Rosenberry, Sr., 56 went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, March 18, 2018; while surrounded by his family. Born on January 30, 1962, in Chambersburg, he was a son of Ann (Breon) Myers and the late Glen I. Rosenberry. Michael was a 1980 graduate of Chambersburg High School and Franklin County Vo-Tech. He married his Junior...
Earl Ross
Mar 15, 2018
Earl E. Ross, age 76, of St. Thomas, PA, passed away on Thursday, March 15, 2018, at Falling Spring Nursing and Rehab Center. Born July 21, 1941, in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Lee E. and Madeline Suders Ross. Earl was a member of Salem United Brethren Church and a 30 year member of the Ruritan National...
Concetta Carnicelli
Mar 15, 2018
Concetta “Connie” Signorelli Carnicelli, 93, passed away March 15, 2018 at Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Born December 31, 1924, Connie was a native of Auburn, New York, the daughter of the late Luciano and Anna DiGiaimo Signorelli. She was valedictorian of her class at Central High School in Auburn and a graduate of SUNY in...
Frank Krisch
Mar 14, 2018
Frank Krisch, 84, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away on Wednesday, March 14, 2018, at Menno Haven. Born March 21, 1933, in Brooklyn, NY, he was a son of the late Anton and Anna Krisch. His wife of 56 years, Roseann Krisch, preceded him in death on August 18, 2012. A U.S. Army Veteran, Frank served honorably during the Korean Conflict....
William Dell
Mar 13, 2018
William H. “Bill” Dell, 82, of Ft. Loudon, PA, passed away Tuesday, March 13, 2018 at Fulton County Medical Center. Born February 5, 1936 in Hanover, PA, he was the son of the late Harmon W. and Margaret Newman Dell. Bill was a 1954 graduate of the Eichelberger High School. He drove for Lobells in Hanover for ten years and...
Sarah Rowe
Mar 13, 2018
Sarah B. Rowe, 84, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away Tuesday morning, March 13, 2018 at her home. Born April 22, 1933 in Orrtanna, PA, she was a daughter of the late Joseph and Nora McKenrick Brennan. Mrs. Rowe was a graduate of the Gettysburg High School. She was a homemaker most of her life. She was a social member of...
Patricia Hoover
Mar 12, 2018
Patricia Shultz Hoover, 71, of Chambersburg, passed away on Monday, March 12, 2018 at Menno Haven. Born November 26, 1946 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of Albert and Isabelle Danzberger Shultz. Her beloved husband and partner in life, Kenneth H. Hoover, whom she married on August 4, 1973, preceded her in death on March 6, 2016. Patricia was a...
Donald Plezia
Mar 12, 2018
Donald W. Plezia, age 83, of Greencastle, PA, passed away on Monday, March 12, 2018, at the Falling Spring Nursing and Rehab Center. Born in Detroit, MI, on October 16, 1934, he was a son of the late Walter and Wanda Plezia. Mr. Plezia earned his bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University in June 1957. Mr. Plezia served honorably after...
Phyllis Crouse
Mar 12, 2018
Phyllis K. Crouse, age 91, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Monday, March 12, 2018 at Menno Haven. Born December 25, 1926 in Gettysburg, she was a daughter of the late Jerre and Ada Wetzel Keefer. A 1944 graduate of the Gettysburg High School she was employed as a Payroll Clerk at Letterkenny Army Depot in Chambersburg, retiring in 1993....
Stephen Myers
Mar 11, 2018
Stephen C. Myers, 73, of Chambersburg died at home on March 11, 2018. He was a son of the late Harold A. and Hazel G. Myers of Chambersburg and Philip A. Myers (Ellen Kopeland) of Philadelphia. Myers was a 1962 graduate of CASHS where he lettered in track and field all four years. He received his Bachelor’s degree in business...
Rowe Byers
Mar 11, 2018
Rowe B. Byers, 95, formerly of Fayetteville, PA, passed away peacefully at Gettysburg Hospital surrounded by his family on Sunday, March 11, 2018. Born October 21, 1922 in Fort Loudon, he was a son of the late William Bruce and Pauline Katherine Byers. He was a 1941 graduate of the former Lemasters High School and served with the US Army...
June Miller
Mar 10, 2018
June Helen Miller, 94, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Saturday, March 10, 2018 at Menno Haven. Born May 4, 1923 in Edenville, she was a daughter of the late William Merle and Lucy Mildred Shatzer Miller. She was a 1947 graduate of the Temple University School of Nursing and in 1962 earned at Bachelor’s Degree from Temple University. She was...
Barbara Dixon McPeek
Mar 9, 2018
Barbara Ann Dixon McPeek, 83, passed away peacefully at the home of her grandson, Donnie and Erica Halbritter on Friday evening, March 9, 2018. Born January 2, 1935 in Washington, DC, she was a daughter of the late Fulton Hudson Dixon and Ethel Virginia Lee Dixon. She was a graduate of Anacostia High School in Washington, DC and was employed...
Ruth Finkley
Mar 8, 2018
Ruth Michaeli Finkley, 89, of Chambersburg, passed away on Thursday, March 8, 2018, at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born June 9, 1928 in Scranton, PA, she was a daughter of the late Joseph and Mathalida Albert Michaeli. Ruth was a graduate of St. Mary’s High School in Scranton. She was employed as a payroll clerk at Family Dress Factory in Scranton...
Ronald Kissel
Mar 6, 2018
Ronald E. Kissel, 75, of Chambersburg, passed away on Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at Reading Hospital. Born November 18, 1942 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Lee and Mary Seilhamer Kissel. Ronald was a 1960 graduate of CASHS. He later served honorably in the Army National Guard for six years. He was part-owner of Lehman’s Egg Service...
Shirley Kohler
Mar 5, 2018
Shirley J. Kohler, 90, formerly of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Monday evening, March 5, 2018 at Paramount Senior Living in Fayetteville. Born November 15, 1927 in Union City, NJ, she was a daughter of the late Lawrence and Anna Miller Funk. Mrs. Kohler was employed as a seamstress at the former Stanley Company in Chambersburg for 37 years prior to...
Esther McBride
Mar 5, 2018
Esther S. McBride, 97, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Monday morning, March 5, 2018 at The Inn at Luther Ridge. Born March 26, 1920 in Maytown, Lancaster County, PA, she was a daughter of the late Charles A. and Rosa Kraut Straley. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Thiel College and a Master’s Degree from Columbia University. From 1940 –...
Ray Taylor
Mar 4, 2018
Ray Taylor, age 86, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at Transitions Health Nursing Home in Gettysburg, PA. Born September 1, 1931 in Spartanburg, SC, he was the son of the late Lewis T. and Rosa Lee Phillips Taylor. A United States Marine Veteran, Ray honorably served from 1952 to 1954. He then attended Fruitland Bible...
Harold Gabler
Mar 4, 2018
Harold C. Gabler, Jr., age 82, of Chambersburg, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, March 4, 2018, while surrounded by his family. Born on September 13, 1935 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Harold C. Gabler Sr. and Eleanor Schaff Gabler. After 53 years of marriage, Harold was preceded in death by his first...
Charles Fickes
Feb 26, 2018
Charles R. Fickes, 81, of Chambersburg, passed away on Monday, February 26, 2018, at Menno Haven. Born October 14, 1936 in Orrtanna, he was the son of Jess and Mary Grace McKenrick Fickes. A US Army veteran, Charles served honorably during the Korean Conflict. He was employed at T.B. Woods in the shipping and receiving department and as an inspector...
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