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Laura Wishard
Nov 26, 2020
Laura H. Rowe Wishard, 84, of Fayetteville, PA, passed away Thursday morning, November 26, 2020 at Paramount Senior Living Center. Born September 24, 1936 in Fayetteville, she was a daughter of the late Wayne B. and Gladys P. Swope Rowe. A homemaker most of her life, Laura was a life member of the Fayetteville Volunteer Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary and...
Kathy Horton
Nov 26, 2020
Kathy Marie Horton, 56, of Scotland, PA, passed away peacefully on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2020. Born March 5, 1964 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter to the late Donald R. and Doris J. (Zeger) Horton. She is survived by three brothers; David Rubeck and wife Sydney, Larry Rubeck and wife Carol Sue, and Stephen Horton and wife Lisa; two...
Jeffery Shade
Nov 25, 2020
Mr. Jeffery L. “Jeff” Shade, 66, of Chambersburg, PA passed away Wednesday, November 25, 2020. Born January 15, 1954 in Chambersburg he was the son of the late John Shade and Dorothy “Peg” (Saunders) Appel. He was a graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School with the Class of 1973. Jeff was employed as a mechanic for Flohrs Pools...
Melvin Piper
Nov 25, 2020
Melvin J. Piper, Jr., 93, of Chamberburg, died on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born on March 19, 1927 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Melvin and Elouise Piper. He was the widower of Delores Fritz Piper, who preceded him in death on July 4, 2018. Melvin attended Chambersburg Schools and served with the...
Robert Peterson
Nov 24, 2020
Robert G. “Jerry” Peterson, 79, of Chambersburg, passed away on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at his home. Born March 12, 1941 in Dry Run, PA, he was the son of the late Elmer and Thelma Love Peterson. A US Navy veteran, Jerry served honorably aboard the USS Shangri La during the Vietnam War. He was employed is security, the last...
Samuel Wenger
Nov 23, 2020
Samuel Earl Wenger, III of Frederick, Maryland, was born on November 20, 1957 in Chambersburg, PA, to Samuel E. Wenger, Jr., and Helen (Graham) Wenger, the third of six children and the eldest son. On Monday, November 23, 2020, just three days after his 63rd birthday, he died suddenly while hunting in one of his favorite places on earth, Smokehole,...
Carolyn Shearer
Nov 23, 2020
Carolyn K. Shearer, 78, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Monday afternoon, November 23, 2020 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born December 10, 1941 in Warren, Ohio, she was a daughter of the late Howard Milton and Nellie Springer Kurtzman. A graduate of Champion High School in Warren, OH, she went on to attend the College of Wooster where she met and...
Earnest Sprow
Nov 23, 2020
Mr. Earnest D. “Dan” Sprow, 89, of Fayetteville, PA passed away Monday, November 23, 2020 in The Shook Home, Chambersburg where he had resided for the past two years. Born September 14, 1931 in Chambersburg he was the son of the late John and Ruth (Dull) Sprow. He was a graduate of Chambersburg High School with the Class of 1949....
Mary Rine
Nov 22, 2020
Mary “Gaga” Alice (Amicone) Rine of Chambersburg, PA, passed away with her husband by her side on Sunday, November 22, 2020 in Chambersburg, after a brave battle with cancer. She was born May 10, 1960 to Ray Amicone and Ruth (Reinoehl) Amicone in Chester, PA. She was a 1978 graduate of CASHS. She earned her undergraduate degree at Penn State...
Patricia Bixler
Nov 22, 2020
Patricia S. (Miller) Bixler, 76, of Chambersburg, passed away on Sunday, November 11, 2020 in Menno Haven-Chambers Pointe. Born on August 1, 1944 in Mechanicsburg, PA, she was a daughter of the late Harry Miller and Helen (Small) Miller. She was the widow of Kenneth L. Bixler, whom she married on November 1, 1980. He preceded her in death on...
D. Eugene Gayman
Nov 21, 2020
D. Eugene Gayman, age 89, Chambersburg, son of the late Harry Alvin Gayman and Catharine Elizabeth (Niswander) Gayman, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, November 21, 2020, surrounded by his family at his home. Eugene was a lifelong farmer, owning and operating a 100-acre dairy farm for 50+ years. When they moved off the home farm, he...
Ronald Cornelius
Nov 21, 2020
“Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.” Ronald “Ron” Glenn Cornelius, age 78, passed away peacefully after a courageous battle with cancer in his home in Fayetteville surrounded by loved ones on Saturday morning, November 21st, 2020. He was born on August 12, 1942 in Fannettsburg, PA to the late Howard “Bud” Finley...
Margaret Sleighter
Nov 20, 2020
Mrs. Margaret L. “Peg” (Lehman) Sleighter, 85, entered eternal life on Friday, November 20, 2020 in the Shippensburg Health Care Center where she was a resident since October 2018. She was born the daughter of the late Edgar Francis Sr. and Grace McKenzie Lehman. Born August 13, 1935 in Greene Township, Franklin County, PA she was a life-long resident of...
Delnore Mills
Nov 20, 2020
Delnore Franklin Mills, Sr. “Dilly” age 77, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Friday, November 20, 2020, at Menno Haven Rehab Center. Born February 1, 1943 in Chambersburg, PA, he was the son of the late Arthur Franklin and Esther Walck Mills. A Restauranteur, Del was co-owner and operator of Dilly’s in Chambersburg for over 25 years. He was a...
Melvin Hawbaker
Nov 19, 2020
Melvin D. Hawbaker, 84, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on Thursday evening, November 19, 2020 at the Chambersburg Hospital. Born March 10, 1936 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late David B. and Carrie Mae (Dice) Hawbaker. A 1954 graduate of the former St. Thomas High School, Melvin grew up on his family farm in St. Thomas. He...
Joanne Wagner
Nov 19, 2020
Joanne R. Peterson Wagner, 84, of Chambersburg, passed away on Thursday, November 19, 2020 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born on April 7, 1936 in Nossville, PA, she was the daughter of the late Elmer and Thelma Love Peterson. Joanne worked for the former Chambersburg Telephone Company and then retired from the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue. Some of her hobbies and...
Bernard Washabaugh
Nov 17, 2020
Mr. Bernard L. Washabaugh, 80, of Chambersburg, PA passed away surrounded by family Tuesday, November 17, 2020 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born October 31, 1940 in Chambersburg he was the son of the late Herbert H. and Margaret Irene (Spahr) Washabaugh. He attended Corpus Christi Catholic School and then graduated from the Chambersburg High School in the Class of 1959....
Jacklyn Fortney
Nov 16, 2020
Jacklyn Barton Fortney, 65, of Chambersburg, passed away on Monday, November 16, 2020 at her home. Born October 14, 1955 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of the late Robert R. Barton, Sr. and Miriam L. Hefflefinger Barton. Jacklyn was a graduate of Chambersburg Area Senior High School. She was employed at Ventura Foods, The Moose Lodge 842 and most...
Mary Anne Gladden
Nov 15, 2020
Mrs. Mary Anne (Oyler) Gladden, 77, of Chambersburg, PA passed away Sunday, November 15, 2020 in the Chambersburg Hospital Emergency Room. Born July 11, 1943 in Chamberburg she was the daughter of the late Geyer Reichard and Dorthea (Kimple) Oyler. She was a graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School with the Class of 1960. Mrs. Gladden then went...
Debra Rosenberry
Nov 13, 2020
Debra F. Rosenberry, 62, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Friday morning, November 13, 2020 at her home. Born March 26, 1958 in Chambersburg, she was a daughter of June Tolbert Bowling of Chambersburg and the late Robert L. Bowling. Debra was a 1977 graduate of the Chambersburg Area Senior High School. She was last employed at the Ingram Book Company...
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