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Rose Gipe
Sep 3, 2020
Rose Z. Gipe, 81, of Chambersburg, passed away on Thursday, September 3, 2020 at her home. Born July 17, 1939 in Smithfield, PA, she was a daughter of the late Walter and Bessie I. Shoaf Miller. Her beloved husband, William G. Gipe, preceded her in death in 2010. Rose was employed at the Stanley Co., JC Penny’s, W.T. Grant, and...
Roxane Hockenberry
Sep 2, 2020
Roxane Tammy Hockenberry, age 62, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away on September 2, 2020 at her home. Born October 16, 1957 in Waynesboro, PA, she was a daughter of the late Clifford Rock and Leona Starliper Gordon, and was raised by her mother and her stepfather, Charles Gordon. A 1975 graduate of Clear Spring High School, she spent most of...
Doris Sollenberger
Sep 2, 2020
Doris G. Sollenberger, 84, of Chambersburg, passed away on Wednesday, September 2, 2020 at her home. Born September 17, 1935 in Roxbury, PA, she was a daughter of the late Samuel and Ada McNair Garnes. Doris was a 1954 graduate of the former Chambersburg High School. Early in her life she was a dedicated homemaker. She was later employed at...
Ruth Sheruda
Aug 31, 2020
Ruth E. Sheruda, 88, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Monday morning, August 31, 2020. Born September 25, 1932 in Peckville, PA, she was a daughter of the late Michael and Julia Perek Soapchalk. Ruth worked as a seamstress in Peckville and had been employed with the Penn Delco School District in Aston as a Special Education Aide, as well as...
Carol Slimmer
Aug 30, 2020
Mrs. Carol (Heckman) Kramer Slimmer, 78, of Chambersburg, PA, died peacefully surrounded by her family in her home on August 30, 2020. Born in Chambersburg on October 30, 1941, she was the daughter of the late Rumler J. and Eleanor S. Heckman of Chambersburg. Carol was married to Richard D. Kramer (deceased March 6, 1986) for 19 years and was...
Susan Faust
Aug 30, 2020
Mrs. Susan A. “Susie” (Seilhamer) Faust, 61, of Chambersburg, PA passed away Sunday, August 30, 2020 in Menno Haven Rehabilitation Center. Born February 14, 1959 in Chambersburg, PA she was the daughter of Lois J. (Diffenderfer) Seilhamer, Chambersburg and the late Roy E. Seilhamer. She was employed for the Stanley Company as a seamstress and then for the Chambersburg Area...
Casey Murray
Aug 29, 2020
Casey Elizabeth Murray, age 28, of Chambersburg, PA passed away unexpectedly at her home on Saturday, August 29, 2020, as a result of a diabetic event. Born January 24, 1992, in Chambersburg, PA, she was the daughter of Denise Murray of Chambersburg, PA and Tim and Danielle Murray of Chambersburg, PA. Casey was a 2010 graduate of CASHS. An animal...
Wayne Walls
Aug 28, 2020
On Friday, August 28, 2020, after a long and courageous battle with cancer, Wayne J. Walls, Jr. crossed his final finish line. Born March 26, 1957 in Chambersburg, PA, he was a son of the late Wayne J. and Jean (Creager) Walls. A 1975 graduate of James Buchanan High School, he has since been a truck driver for 28 years,...
Lois Siemer
Aug 27, 2020
Lois Margaret (Raymond) Siemer, 78, passed away on August 27, 2020 at her home in Chambersburg, PA. Lois was born on September 9, 1941, in Callicoon, NY, to Lewis and Margaret “Peggie” (Bound) Raymond. She married her beloved husband, Chuck, on August 20, 1966. Lois graduated Lakewood High School in 1960 and Tusculum College in Tennessee in 1964 with a...
Robert Effland
Aug 26, 2020
Robert “Bob” Effland, Jr., 77, of Chambersburg, PA, passed away Wednesday morning at his home. Born November 7, 1942 in Chambersburg, he was a son of the late Robert Effland, Sr. and Ruth Perry Effland. Bob served honorably in the US Army. He retired from Chambersburg Hospital where he had been employed in the housekeeping department for 18 years. He...
James Logan
Aug 26, 2020
James Daniel “JD” Logan died peacefully from natural causes on August 26th, 2020 at the age of 68 years old. JD was born to James and Barbara (West) in East St. Louis, IL and raised in Belleville, IL by James and his wife Judy. He graduated from Belleville West High School in 1970 and attended college at Ivy Tech in...
Jean Klein
Aug 24, 2020
Jean A. Klein, 87, of Chambersburg, passed away on Monday, August 24, 2020 at Luther Ridge Retirement Community. Born September 1, 1932 in Pittsburgh, PA, she was the daughter of the late Norman F. and Mary M. Mizer Agnew. Her beloved husband, Robert E. Klein, preceded her in death on February 16, 2009. Jean earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Westminster...
June Mowen
Aug 23, 2020
June Mowen, 84, of Chambersburg, died Sunday, August 23, 2020 at The Shook Home from complications of a recent stroke. June was born May 24, 1936 in Fayetteville to the late Kenneth and Estella Newell Farner. She attended the former Chambersburg High School and at age eighteen married the love of her life (Bobby) in 1954. She was employed at...
Viola Johnson
Aug 20, 2020
Mrs. Viola B. (Bryan) Johnson, 82, of Chambersburg, PA entered into the arms of Jesus Thursday, August 20, 2020 in her home. Born September 27, 1937 in Camden, NJ she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Mildred Bryan. She and her late husband, Mr. Walter Johnson were married June 15, 1957. He passed away June 2001. Mrs. Johnson...
Warren Hoffeditz
Aug 19, 2020
Warren Eugene Hoffeditz, 85, of Chambersburg, passed away on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at his home. Born May 10, 1935 in Dry Run, PA, he was a son of the late Harry Eugene and Emma Louella Dietrich Hoffeditz. Warren was a 1953 graduate of CASHS. He was employed as a carpenter for Garman’s Home Center and later was self-employed as...
Nathan Hawbaker
Aug 17, 2020
Mr. Nathan H.C. Hawbaker, 70, of Chambersburg, PA passed away Monday, August 17, 2020 in the Chambersburg Hospital. Born June 16, 1950 in Chambersburg, he was the son of the late Harry S.G. and M. Elizabeth (Sollenberger) Hawbaker. He graduated from the Chambersburg Area Senior High School. He and his wife of nearly 48 years, Mrs. Laura A. (DeVos) Hawbaker,...
Anthony Vydra
Aug 17, 2020
Colonel Anthony Ladislav Vydra (USA Retired), age 86, a resident of Fayetteville, PA and Marlinton, WV, died on August 17, 2020 at his home. A native of Flushing, New York, he was the son of the late Ladislav Huge Vydra and Julie Dvorsky Vydra. Colonel Vydra was a graduate of Flushing High School, the University of Vermont with a degree...
Michel Sollenberger
Aug 16, 2020
Michel Bennett Sollenberger, 55, died athis residence on Sheffield Drive, Chambersburg, PA, at 5:35am, August 16, 2020. Michel was born on April 30, 1965 in Philadephia, PA. He is survived by his parents Harold and Lois (Delp) Sollenberger of Bushnell, FL; four brothers: Braxton Sollenberger of Elisabethtown, PA, Conrad Sollenberger of Shippensburg, PA, Philip Sollenberger of Chambersburg, PA, and Stephen...
Martha Gomer
Aug 16, 2020
Mrs. Martha Sue (Drawbaugh) Gomer, 83, of Chambersburg, PA passed away Sunday, August 16, 2020 at the York Hospital. Born September 21, 1936 in Chambersburg, she was the daughter of the late Richard Wayne and Mabel Louise (McKenzie) Drawbaugh. Mrs. Gomer was a graduate of CASHS with the Class of 1954 and she later went on to obtain a bachelor’s...
Rosemarie Thompson
Aug 15, 2020
Mrs. Rosemarie (Giorgini) Thompson, 58, passed away Saturday, August 15, 2020. Born March 31, 1962 in Chester, PA she was the daughter of the late John and Gertrude (Platt) Giorgini. After graduating from Chambersburg Area Senior High School, Rose earned her LPN degree from Chambersburg Vo-Tech. She worked for over 20 years at the Chambersburg Hospital. Rose spent her career...
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