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Helen McCardell
Jan 6, 2022
HELEN IRENE (MONG) MCCARDELL, 90, passed away Thursday, January 6, 2022 in The Palace Gardens, Homestead, Florida. Born January 21, 1931 in Ringgold, MD, she was the daughter of the late David E. and Lillian Elmyere (Kendall) Mong. She lived her early life in Ringgold. She married Charles W. McCardell on July 6, 1948, in Maryland. They first lived in...
Dennis Brown
Jan 4, 2022
Dennis Lee Brown, 70, of Chambersburg, passed away on Tuesday, January 4, 2022 at York Hospital. Born March 9, 1951 in Mount Union, PA he was a son of Evelyn Isabel Goshorn Brown and the late William Roy Brown. Dennis was a 1969 graduate of Mount Union Area High School. A US Air Force veteran, He served honorably during the...
Charles Harmon
Jan 2, 2022
Charles E. “Stretch” Harmon, 75, of Marion, PA, passed away Sunday afternoon, January 2, 2022 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born May 16, 1946 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Glenn and Della Spoonhour Harmon. He was employed as a truck driver with Nitterhouse Masonry for more than 40 years, retiring in 2011. Mr. Harmon played for the...
Marion Small
Jan 2, 2022
Marion H. Small, 82, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Sunday afternoon, January 2, 2022 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born August 7, 1939 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Albert Leroy and Clara A. Sandoe Hoffeditz. Mrs. Small was a graduate of the former St. Thomas High School. Early in her life she worked on the family dairy...
Thomas Gordon
Jan 2, 2022
Thomas Hall Gordon, Jr., 60 of Biglerville, PA, passed away Sunday afternoon, January 2, 2022 at his home. Born June 2, 1961 in Elwood City, PA, he was the son of Linda Lee Donley Gordon of Largo, FL and the late Thomas Hall Gordon, Sr. A 1979 graduate of Riverside High School in Elwood City, he served honorably with the...
Kaye Robinson
Jan 2, 2022
Kaye L. Robinson, 70, of Chambersburg, PA passed away Sunday, January 2, 2022 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born February 4, 1951 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Clark A. “Trig” and Dorothy M. (Harmon) Horne. She was employed in the custodial department of Shippensburg University for 13 years retiring in 2012. Prior to that Kaye worked for...
Dorothy Witter
Jan 1, 2022
Dorothy M. (Clark) Witter, 101, of Chambersburg, PA passed away Saturday, January 1, 2022 in the Brookview Health Care Center. Born November 14, 1920 in Harrisburg, PA she was the daughter of the late Harvey W. and Mary R. (Fenstermacher) Clark. She was employed for many years as a receptionist at the Chambersburg Trust Company. Dorothy enjoyed tole painting and...
Blair Clark
Dec 31, 2021
Blair A. Clark, 87, of Chambersburg, passed away on Friday morning, December 31, 2021. Born November 20, 1934 in Menchtown, PA, he was the son of the late Joseph A. and Alice L. Dickens Clark. Blair was a 1954 graduate of Everett High School. A US Air Force veteran, he served honorably during the Korean War. Blair was employed as...
John Gsell
Dec 31, 2021
John W. Gsell, 86, of Chambersburg, passed away on Friday, December 31, 2021 at Menno Haven - Chambers Pointe. Born on September 24, 1935 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late John and Bertha Keefer Gsell. John was a 1953 graduate of Chambersburg Area Senior High School. He then established John W. Gsell Sheet Metal, which he owned...
John Patten
Dec 30, 2021
John S. Patten, Jr., 86, of Fayetteville, PA passed away Thursday, December 30, 2021 in the Chambersburg Hosptial. Born February 4, 1935 in Superior, WI he was the son of the late John S. Patten, Sr. and Germaine (Shears) Patten. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Nancy L. (Jedlika) Patten who he married, April 8, 1961; four...
Verna Rosenberry
Dec 30, 2021
Verna L. Rosenberry, 94 of Chambersburg, passed away on Thursday, December 30, 2021 at ProMedica Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation. Born December 4, 1927 in Three Springs, Pennsylvania, she was a daughter of the late Noah David Runk and Edith Marie (Weight) Runk. Verna was a long time member of the Grand Point Church in Chambersburg where she enjoyed both attending...
Sharyn Baker
Dec 29, 2021
Sharyn Ann Baker, 77, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Wednesday, December 29, 2021 at Promedica in Chambersburg. Born December 20, 1944 in New Haven, CT, she was the daughter of the late William and Eleanor Scarpa Swanson. Sharyn was a graduate of the Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven and then attended South Central Community College in Long Wharf...
Stephen Horton
Dec 29, 2021
Stephen R. Horton, age 65, of Orrstown, PA, passed away on Wednesday, December 29, 2021, at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born December 24, 1956, in Chambersburg, PA, he was the son of the late Donald R. and Doris J. Zeger Horton. A 1975 graduate of CASHS, Stephen went on to serve honorably in the U.S. Air Force for four years until...
Tina Miller
Dec 29, 2021
Tina Marie Miller, 50, of Chambersburg, passed away on Wednesday, December 29, 2021 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born July 13, 1971 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of Jerry Lee Barnhart and the late Janice Ilene Cramer. Tina was a 1989 graduate of James Buchanan High School. She was employed at Letterkenny Army Depot for the past 21 years. Tina...
George Herbert
Dec 28, 2021
George Henry Herbert, age 78, passed away peacefully with his wife by his side on December 28, 2021. It was a long journey of loss due to progressive supranuclear palsy. Born December 23, 1943 in Lewistown, PA, he was one of five children born to Frank E. and Alma Herbert. George was a man dedicated to God, his family, and...
Margaret Racila
Dec 28, 2021
Margaret Ellen “Teddy” Kuhn Racila, age 94, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away on Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born October 3, 1927, in McConnellsburg, PA, she was the daughter of the late William Lee and Ruth Knable Kuhn. Teddy worked as a waitress and homemaker most of her working years. She enjoyed flowers, gardening, going to yard...
Charlotte Fisher
Dec 27, 2021
Charlotte M. (Flory) Fisher, 80, of Chambersburg, PA passed away Monday, December 27, 2021 in the Chambersburg Hospital, surrounded by her daughters. Born September 17, 1941 in Shippensburg, PA she was the daughter of the late Charles and Virgie (Adams) Flory. She was employed at Nibble with Gibble’s, Inc., Chambersburg for over 30 years retiring in 2016. Charlotte loved to...
Eva Jackson
Dec 27, 2021
Eva M. Jackson, 95, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Monday, December 27, 2021 at Paramount Senior Living. Born March 25, 1926 in Luzerne County, PA, she was a daughter of the late William and Isabella Coots Marley. Her beloved husband, Matthew James Jackson, Sr., preceded her in death in August of 1997. Eva was raised in Forty Fort, PA....
Ricky Fox
Dec 25, 2021
Ricky Lynn Fox, 69, of Chambersburg, passed away on Saturday, December 25, 2021 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born July 29, 1952 in Hagerstown, MD, he was a son of the late Charles G. and Mary Butts Fox. Ricky was a 1970 graduate of Greencastle-Antrim High School. A US Marine Corps veteran, he served honorably during the Vietnam War. He was...
Betty Smith
Dec 23, 2021
Betty J. Atwell Smith, 89 of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Thursday morning, December 23, 2021 at Chambers Pointe Healthcare Center. Born September 4, 1932, she was the daughter of the late Dan and Nora Lee Sullivan Atwell. Mrs. Smith was a graduate of Baxter Seminary. She was a homemaker most of her life. In her younger years she enjoyed playing...
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