OBIT: James W. RICHARDSON, Sr., 2005, native of Blair County, PA

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JAMES W. RICHARDSON SR. 

  James W. "Jim" Richardson Sr., 69, of 3920 Main Street Scotland, PA, 
died on Monday, July 18, 2005 in the Washington County Hospital, 
Hagerstown, MD. Born on January 13, 1936 in Tyrone, PA, he was a son of 
the late Charles and Edith Keleckner Richardson.
  Jim was a graduate of Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology and Penn 
State University. He was a member of Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 
where he served as head usher for the 10:30 a.m. mass since 1968. He 
also served on the Evangelism Committee and participated in the 
Perpetual Adoration Chapel. Retired since 1992, Jim was a carpentry 
teacher at Scotland School for Veteran's Children. He also owned and 
operated Jim Richardson Home and Remodeling. He was a Fourth Degree 
Knight with Knights of Columbus Post 1426 and a member of the Knights' 
Dart League; a member of Charles Nitterhouse Post 1599 VFW, where he 
was a volunteer bingo caller and a member of its bowling league; a 
member of Hume-McNeal-Byers AmVets Post 224; and the Marine Corps 
bowling league. Jim served on the Greene Twp. Water and Sewer Board; 
and he coached baseball for Scotland Little League, as well as the Colt 
and American Legion Leagues. He and his wife Charmagne also raised 
Great Danes.
  He is survived by his wife, Charmagne (Szymborski) Richardson, whom 
he married on September 17, 1999; four children, Mary Patricia (wife of 
Leonard) Kauffman, of Chambersburg, Marjorie Ann (wife of Michael) 
Ostroff of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, James W. Richardson Jr. (and wife 
Deborah) of Mechanicsburg, and Michelle Maureen Dale (and fianc‚ Dave 
Noel) of Shippensburg; two brothers, Charles Richardson of Tyrone, PA, 
and Ernest Richardson of Lancaster, PA; three sisters, Martha 
Stonebraker of Albuquerque, NM, Gertrude Irvin, and Vicki Geissinger, 
both of Tyrone; two stepdaughters, Theresa Renee (wife of Richard) 
Brindle of Scotland, PA, and Jacqueline Nicole (wife of Frederick) 
Buckheit, of Chambersburg; six grandchildren, Aaron and Kathleen 
Kauffman, Jackie Dale, Ryan and Chandler Ostroff, and Nathan Noel; and 
five step-grandchildren, Curtis Becker, Kyle Kennedy, Clayton Brindle, 
Miranda Buckheit, and Jarrett Brindle. He was preceded in death by his 
first wife, Mary Louise O'Toole Richardson on July 5, 1997.
  A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Friday, 
July 22, 2005 in Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 320 Philadelphia 
Avenue, Chambersburg. The Rev. James R. O'Brien will officiate. 
Interment will follow in Corpus Christi Cemetery. The family will 
receive friends from 7-9 p.m. on Thursday in the Thomas L. Geisel 
Funeral Home, 333 Falling Spring Road, Chambersburg, with a Vigil 
Service beginning at 8 p.m.
  The family requests that memorial contributions be made to the 
Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology Alumni Foundation, c/o Alex 
Monro, 750 East King Street, Lancaster, PA 17602-3198.  

Tyrone Daily Herald, July 20, 2005