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Charles Haas
Feb 28, 2013
Charles R. Haas, 95, a resident at Menno Haven and formerly of 264 West Queen Street, Chambersburg, PA, died Thursday morning, February 28, 2013 at Menno Haven. Born January 15, 1918 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Charles H. and Mary Lulu Baughman Haas. Charles served in the Pennsylvania National Guard with Troop E, 104th Calvary from...
Donald Gallagher
Feb 27, 2013
Donald P. Gallagher, 88, of Chambersburg, PA, died Wednesday afternoon, February 27, 2013 at home. Born February 15, 1925 in Johnstown, PA, he was a son of the late Charles E. and Blanche I. Baldwin Gallagher. A graduate of Richland High School, Johnstown, PA, he went on to attend the University of Pittsburgh Johnstown after his military service. Don served...
Paul Pefley
Feb 24, 2013
Paul Pefley, Jr., 80, of Chambersburg, PA, died Sunday, February 24, 2013 in Chambersburg Hospital. Born September 11, 1932 in Greencastle, he was a son of the late Paul Sr., and Gladys Burkholder Pefley. Mr. Pefley served in the US Army with the 728th Infantry Division during the Korean War and was discharged at the rank of Sergeant. While in...
Donald Boles
Feb 22, 2013
Donald W. “Jeep” Boles, age 68, of Chambersburg, PA; passed away on Friday, February 22, 2013 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Funeral services will be held on Friday, March 1, 2013 at 1:30 PM in the Chapel of Thomas L. Geisel Funeral Home and Cremation Center, Chambersburg, PA. The family will receive friends two hours prior to the service in the...
Anna Burtman
Feb 22, 2013
Anna L. Burtman, age 83, of Chambersburg, passed away on Friday, February 22, 2013 in Falling Spring Nursing and Rehab Center. Born on September 26, 1929 in Shippensburg, she was a daughter of the late Irvin Yohe and Clara Reed Yohe. She was the widow of Franklin R. Burtman, whom she married on October 11, 1952. He preceded her in...
James Rhodes
Feb 21, 2013
James E. “Jim” Rhodes III, age 66, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away unexpectedly of natural causes on Thursday, February 21, 2013 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born in Altoona, PA, he was the son of the late James E. Rhodes Jr. and Vivian L. Baird. Jim was a 1964 graduate of the former Scotland School for Veteran’s Children. He went on...
Patricia Goshorn
Feb 20, 2013
Patricia W. Goshorn, age 75 of Fayetteville, PA passed away on Wednesday, February 20, 2013. Born January 23, 1938 in Minneapolis, MN, she was the daughter of the late Leslie and Ruth Dorwaldt Wood. A U.S. Army veteran, Mrs. Goshorn served honorably until her discharge when she married her husband Max in 1957. She was an Army wife, traveling all...
Geraldine Shoop
Feb 17, 2013
Geraldine B. Shoop, age 82, of Spring Run, PA, passed away peacefully in her home on Sunday, February 17, 2013. Born September 14, 1930 in Doylesburg, PA, she was the daughter of the late Verne and Fannie Mae Shoop Hammond. Geraldine dedicated 23 years, to the former Stanely Company, where she retired in 1983. In retirement, Geraldine enjoyed spending time...
Scherrie Kennedy
Feb 16, 2013
Scherrie M. Kennedy, age 80, of Chambersburg, passed away on Saturday, February 16, 2013 in her home, while surrounded by her family. Born on October 25, 1932 in Vancouver, British Columbia, she was a daughter of the late Charles W. Campbell and Lillian Walker Campbell. In addition to raising and caring for her family, Scherrie’s many career positions included fashion...
Mary Tyrrell
Feb 16, 2013
Mary Ruth (McGee) Tyrrell, age 96, passed away Saturday, February 16, 2013 at ManorCare Health Services in Chambersburg. Born September 14, 1916 in Durham, NC, she was a daughter of the late Roy S. and Annie (Hayden) McGhee. She was preceded in death by her husband of 58 years, John Tyrrell (who died in 2004), a sister, Jennie Mann, and...
Earl Gaughenbaugh
Feb 15, 2013
Earl J. Gaughenbaugh, of Chambersburg, and formerly of Wheeling, WV, died Friday, February 15, 2013 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born on August 22, 1927 in Wheeling, WV, he was a son of the late Raymond M. and Gertrude Welch Gaughenbaugh. He is survived by his wife, Dolores Dougal Gaughenbaugh, daughter, Cynthia Ann Shank and husband Rick, of Hagerstown, MD; son...
Grant Gsell
Feb 15, 2013
Grant S. Gsell, age 88, of Chambersburg, PA and formerly of Upper Strasburg, PA, passed away on Friday, February 15, 2013 in the Falling Spring Nursing and Rehab Center. Born April 12, 1924 in Marion, PA, he was the son of the late Grant M. and Florence Statler Gsell. A U.S. Navy veteran, Mr. Gsell served honorably in both WWII...
Carole Moore
Feb 15, 2013
Carole A. Moore, 74, of Chambersburg, PA died unexpectedly on Friday, February 15, 2013 in Chambersburg Hospital. Born on July 1, 1938 in Passaic, NJ, she was the daughter of the late Peter and Mary Stefnik Byrnes. An elementary school teacher in her younger years, Carole received her Bachelor’s Degree from William Patterson University in Wayne, NJ. She was a...
Wallace Gossert
Feb 14, 2013
Wallace W. “Bose” Gossert, Sr., 80, of Chambersburg, PA, died Thursday morning, February 14, 2013 at his home. Born January 30, 1933 in Quincy, PA he was a son of the late G. Norman and Hazel Beam Gossert. A US Army veteran, he worked for the late Ralph W. Horst for thirty years. Bose was a life member of the...
William Gartner
Feb 13, 2013
William “Bill” B. Gartner, 81, of Chambersburg, PA, went to be with the Lord Wednesday afternoon, February 13, 2013 at Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born October 2, 1931 in Newark, NJ, he was the son of the late John J. and Freida E. Hauser Gartner. Bill was a graduate of St. Benedict High School in Newark, NJ and...
Annie Kramer
Feb 12, 2013
Annie L. “Louise” Kramer, 78, of Fayetteville, PA, died Tuesday evening, February 12, 2013 at her home. Born August 25, 1934 in Williamston, NC, she was a daughter of the late Albert and Gracelene Morris Robertson. She retired from B.P.O. Elks Lodge #600 in Chambersburg where she was employed as a waitress for 17 years. She had been previously employed...
Jacqueline Shaul
Feb 12, 2013
Jacqueline Karin Sylvia Shaul, 82, of Chambersburg, PA, died Tuesday morning, February 12, 2013 at Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born July 12, 1930 in Merignac, France, she was the daughter of the late Jacques and Emma Wijk Samazeuilh. A homemaker most of her life, Mrs. Shaul was the “chief of staff” for her family for the thirty years...
Katherine Bishop
Feb 11, 2013
Katherine V. Bishop, 88, of Chambersburg, PA, entered into eternal rest on Monday afternoon, February 11, 2013 at the home of her son. Born September 24, 1924 in Needmore, PA, she was a daughter of the late Keller Theodore and Viola Hope (Snyder) Mentzer. A 1943 graduate of the former Warfordsburg High School, Katherine was employed at Letterkenny Army Depot...
Henry Wilk
Feb 10, 2013
Henry J. Wilk, Sr., 84, of Chambersburg, PA, died Sunday evening, February 10, 2013 at Chambersburg Hospital. Born April 17, 1928 in Lamberton, PA, he was a son of the late Frank and Mary Zuchowitz Wilk. A US Army veteran of the Korean War, Henry worked as a coal miner and road construction worker in his younger years. He then...
Mary Green
Feb 9, 2013
Mary P. “Dolly” Green, age 87, of Chambersburg, PA passed away on Saturday, February 9, 2013 at Menno Haven Nursing Home. Born July 8, 1925 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Edgar J. and Helen C. Myers Patterson. Dolly worked for a number of years as a teller at the former Valley Bank. She was a member...
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