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Mary Perry
Oct 13, 2016
Mary Jane Perry, 73, passed away Thursday, October 13, 2016. Born April 28, 1943, in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Melvin and Genevieve (Sackman) Thomas. Mary was a graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School. She was happily married to Ronald L. Perry Sr., the boy next door, for 57 years. She was a member of...
Frances Ramer
Oct 12, 2016
Frances M. Ramer, age 84, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at the Falling Spring Nursing and Rehab Center. Born November 28, 1931, in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Harry L. and Rosetta Wadel Ebersole. Mrs. Ramer worked in the Laundry Service at Wilson College in her early years. She later worked in...
Fern Wingert Shoop
Oct 11, 2016
Fern G. Wingert Shoop, 79, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Tuesday morning, October 11, 2016 at her home. Born July 31, 1937 in Fayetteville, she was a daughter of the late Merle and Catherine Sollenberger Wingert. Fern attended Messiah College and was a 1956 graduate of the former Chambersburg Hospital School of Nursing. She was employed for six years at...
Julie Morrill
Oct 11, 2016
Passed away on Tuesday, October 11, 2016, at Falling Spring Nursing and Rehab Center. Born in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Mary Alice Holtry Morrill. She was a 1978 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School. She worked as a secretary most of her working years. Julie enjoyed music, reading, conversation, and scrapbooking. She is survived...
Betty Czarnecki
Oct 11, 2016
Betty E. Czarnecki, 82, of Elkton, MD, passed away on Tuesday, October 11, 2016, at Union Hospital. Born February 1, 1934, in Grand Rapids, MI, she was a daughter of the late Deal M. and Helen M. Witt Leach. Her beloved husband, Leonard W. Czarnecki, preceded her in death in 1987. Betty was a 1952 graduate of Coloma High School...
Ethel Brandt
Oct 10, 2016
Ethel Mae Brandt, 74, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away on Monday, October 10, 2016, at her home. Born January 30, 1942, in Mount Union, PA, she was a daughter of the late Raymond S. and Blanche M. Secrest Jenkins. Ethel was employed at the former Stanley Company in Chambersburg. She was a homemaker most of her life and stayed home...
Michael Lowe
Oct 10, 2016
Michael Charles Lowe, 41, of York Springs, PA, passed away on Monday, October 10, 2016, at Holy Spirit Hospital. Born February 16, 1975, in Bethesda, MD, he is a son of Wendy Lowe and the late Mitchell Lowe. Michael was employed as a sales manager at Dean’s Auto Plaza in Hanover, PA. He enjoyed golfing, cars, his Dallas Cowboys, and...
Bessie Funk
Oct 10, 2016
Bessie M. Funk, age 97, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Monday, October 10, 2016, at Rogers Homecare in Chambersburg. Born February 4, 1919, in Linden, TN, she was the daughter of the late John H. and Laura Elkins Bates. Mrs. Funk was a 1937 graduate of Centerville High School in Centerville, TN. She married James Funk of Marion, PA...
Jean Snyder Foreman
Oct 9, 2016
Jean E. Snyder Foreman, 77, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away peacefully Sunday morning, October 9, 2016. Born November 2, 1938 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Jesse and Katherine Miller Burns. Jean was a 1959 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School and taught elementary school in the Chambersburg Area School District. She was former President of...
Jonathan Booher
Oct 8, 2016
Jonathan Matthew Booher, 40, of Chambersburg, PA, went home to be with his Lord on Saturday, October 8, 2016, at Hershey Medical Center. Born April 3, 1976, in Chambersburg, he was a son of JoAnn Steiner Booher Bowers of Chambersburg and the late James M. Booher who preceded him in death on October 30, 2011. He attended the Cumberland Valley...
Lamar Hamlett
Oct 7, 2016
Lamar Hamlett, age 97, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Friday, October 7, 2016, at Penn Hall Nursing Home. Born July 22, 1919, in Green City, MS, he was the son of the late Archie Hamlett, Sr. and Rena Hall Hamlett. A U. S. Army veteran, Mr. Hamlett served his country honorably for 23 years, in both WWII and the...
Constance Hipp
Oct 6, 2016
Constance G. Hipp, 78, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Thursday, October 6, 2016, at her home. Born July 8, 1938, in Washington D.C., she was a daughter of the late Robert E. and Augusta E. Lyles Dixon. Connie graduated from High School in Washington D.C. in 1956. She was employed as a secretary at the F.B.I. and later at...
Norman Mowers
Oct 4, 2016
Norman C. Mowers, 92 of Chambersburg, PA, went to be with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on Tuesday morning, October 4, 2016 at his home. Born September 13, 1924 in Newville, PA, he was a son of the late James E. and Alice E. (Shatzer) Mowers. Mr. Mowers served in the US Army during WWII. He retired from Letterkenny...
Elton Simpson
Oct 3, 2016
Elton Richard Simpson, age 78, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, October 3, 2016, at Meritus Medical Center. Born June 1, 1938, in Philadelphia, he was the son of the late Dr. Thomas Richard and Corlena Scheur Simpson. A 1956 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School, Mr. Simpson went on to serve honorably in the U.S....
Dorothy Rotz
Oct 2, 2016
Dorothy K. “Dottie” Rotz, 95, formerly of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Sunday morning, October 2, 2016 at Community General Hospital in Harrisburg. Born May 29, 1921 in Carlisle, she was a daughter of the late Samuel S. and Elva Lizzie Kane Kitner. A 1939 graduate of the Carlisle High School, Mrs. Rotz was employed early in her life with the...
John Carter
Oct 1, 2016
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Saturday evening, October 1, 2016 John A.H. Carter found peace and a voice from Heaven saying “Come unto me and rest.” John A.H. Carter, 81, of Chambersburg, PA, went home to be with the Lord with his wife Gloria; his friends Robert and Helen...
Marian Harman
Sep 28, 2016
Marian Isabel Harman, age 92, of Fayetteville, PA, and formerly of Sebastian, FL, passed away Wednesday morning, September 28, 2016, at the Falling Spring Nursing Home. Born July 27, 1924, in Fayetteville, she was the daughter of the late Charles and Katie Perry Mitchell. The last of her immediate family, Marian is survived by numerous great - nieces and nephews....
Michael Witherspoon
Sep 27, 2016
Michael Eugene Witherspoon, age 34, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away unexpectedly in the Chambersburg hospital on Tuesday, September 27, 2016. Born May 10, 1982, in Chambersburg, he was the son of Robert E. and Diane Juray Witherspoon. Michael attended the Chambersburg Area Senior High School. He had worked as a painter. An avid outdoorsman, Michael enjoyed fishing and hunting; however...
Catherine Davis
Sep 26, 2016
Catherine F. Reid Davis, age 89, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, September 26, 2016 at her home. Born in Newtown Platten, Ireland on February 25, 1927, she was the daughter of the late Thomas and Catherine Green Reid. A homemaker most of her adult life, Mrs. Davis enjoyed her pet cats, donating to various charitable organizations, bird watching, and most...
Peter Hallock
Sep 25, 2016
Peter K. Hallock, Sr., 75, of Marion, PA, passed away Sunday evening, September 25, 2016 at his home surrounded by his family. Born February 21, 1941 in Islip, NY, he was the only child of Kittridge and Dorothy Appel Hallock. Mr. Hallock graduated from Penn State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Forestry. He had a great love of the...
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