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 John T. "Jack" Geary, 89, of Washington, D.C., and formerly of Shepherdstown, W.Va., died Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, in Baltimore. Visitation will be Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at St. Agnes Chapel, Shepherdstown. A rosary will be prayed at 5:45 p.m. The Funeral Mass will be celebrated Thursday at 11 a.m. at the chapel. Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery. Arrangements are by Brown Funeral Home, Martinsburg, W.Va.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Swept up in the tide of mankind's greatest conflict, Dr. Alfred Tonolo lent his hands to the creation of a small monument to peace. A lieutenant in the Bersaglieri, an elite Italian army unit, Tonolo was captured by the Allies on May 11, 1943, in the last days of the North African campaign. He spent the next 2 1/2 years as a prisoner of war at Letterkenny Army Depot. Tonolo was one of 22 Italian officers and 1,200 enlisted men who helped build warehouses and other facilities.

Marc Shipley Price, 51, of Martinsburg, W.Va., died Sunday, April 15, 2012, at the VA Medical Center in Martinsburg. A memorial service will be Saturday, April 28, 2012, at 2 p.m. at Chapel 117 across from the HOPE Center at the VA Medical Center. Arrangements are by Brown Funeral Home, Martinsburg.

A group of local people gathering tonight at the St. Maria Goretti chapel will put out a permanent welcome mat for God. [cont. from front page ] "There will be at least one person praying in this chapel at all times ... 24 hours a day ... every day ... forever," said Michael Winslow, one of the organizers of a form or worship known as Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. Winslow said convents and monasteries have been sites of perpetual prayer for many years. "And since 1981, there has been perpetual prayer at St. Peter's Basilica, established by Pope John Paul II," Winslow said.

Thelma Virginia Dyche Fitz, 95, of Quincy (Pa.) Village, and formerly of Waynesboro, Pa., died Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012, at Waynesboro Hospital. The service will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the chapel at Quincy Home. Chaplain Baer will officiate. Burial will be in Mount Zion Cemetery, Quincy. The family will receive friend two hours prior to the service.

APRIL 19, 1956-MARCH 14, 2011 Robert J. "B.J. " Tippitt, 54, of Hagerstown, Md., died Monday, March 14, 2011, at his residence. He was born April 19, 1956, in Fairbanks, Alaska, a son of the late James E. Tippitt and Neen (Faust) Tippitt, who survives, of Bedford, Pa. He worked as a printer for Arnold Graphics Printing and J.D. Sky Corp. He enjoyed riding his Harley-Davidson. A memorial service will be Friday, March 18, 2011, at 11 a.m., in the chapel at Timothy A. Berkebile Funeral Home in Bedford with the Rev. William Foy officiating.

AUG. 14, 1926-FEB. 25, 2011 JACKSON, Ga. — Betty Jane Leatherman Delauter, 84, of Wesley Drive, Jackson, Ga., died Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. She was born in Frederick County, Md., Aug. 14, 1926, the daughter of the late Edgar and Edna Brandenburg Leatherman. She was wife of the late Kenneth Lee Delauter, who died in February 1984.    Mrs. Jane was a homemaker and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Jackson. She enjoyed sewing, gardening both vegetables and flowers, cooking and working in her yard.

With the number of World War II veterans dying at the rate of more than 600 per day, it was a rare occasion to have two veterans of the conflict together in Chambersburg on Thursday. World War II veteran and best-selling author of “Hell's Guest,” Col. Glenn Frazier, 89, was the guest speaker at the Rotary Club meeting at The Orchards Restaurant. He shared his experiences of fighting a losing effort to save the Philippine Island of Luzon from the Japanese to the infamous six-day Bataan Death March and three years of torture in Japanese prisoner of war camps.

SHARPSBURG ? Antietam Women's Ensemble plans to bring civilian music of the Civil War era and the emancipation movement to life this weekend at Trinity Lutheran Church in Sharpsburg. The group's third concert since its inauguration last year, honors Sharpsburg's Tolson's Chapel, the original Methodist church for black members of the community. "Mainly we wanted to say, 'Hey, look what's here,'" says Georgiann Toole, director of the ensemble. The chapel was constructed in 1866 and, starting in 1868, housed a Freedmen's Bureau school for African-American children.

marlob@herald-mail.com HAGERSTOWN - When Willard and Mary Graves got involved in the Perpetual Adoration Chapel at St. Maria Goretti four years ago, they may not have been expecting miracles, but they think they got one nonetheless. "A lady who was writing poetry to Jesus during her visit to the chapel took a picture of the (vessel) that holds the Eucharist and when her film was developed, there were rays of light emanating from it," Willard Graves said. Countless flash pictures have been taken before and after the "miraculous" 2003 photo and nothing even close ever has shown up, he said.