Obituary and Funeral Notice for Otho Henry Alburtis (1929); Allegany Co., MD From the Cumberland Times News File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Lonny J. Watro. Copyright. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ********************************************************* Cumberland Evening Times, Monday, June 10, 1929 Obituary Otho H. Alburtis Otho H. Alburtis, 76, for more than 40 years a printer for the Daily News, died early yesterday morning at his home, 478 Goethe street, folling a brief illness. Besides his widow, Mrs. Emma Alburtis, his is survived byt two sons and three daughters as follows: Otho A. and John S. Alburtis, Mrs. Frank A. Shober, Jr., this city; Mrs. S. H. Lazarus, of Roanoke, Va., and Mrs. Mark Seifert, of Bedford, Pa. He also leaves a sister, Mrs. Virginia Stewart of Martinsburg, W. Va. Mr. Alburtis was a member of the Junior Order, United American Mechanics, and of Cumberland Local No. 244, International Typographical Union. He was the oldest active printer in this section of the country. During his long career he witnessed the introduction of the linotype and other modern machinery now used to produce a newspaper. He would have been 76 years old today. Cumberland Evening Times, Wednesday, June 12, 1929 Funeral of Otho H. Alburtis Funeral services for Otho H. Alburtis, 76, veteran printer of the Daily News, who died Sunday morning at his home, 478 Goethe street, were held at 2:30 this afternoon at the home, with Rev Frank Y. Jaggers, pastor of King- sley Methodist Episcopal Church, officiating. Burial was in Greenmount Ceme- tery. The pallbearers, all members of Cumberland Local No. 244, International Typographical Union, were: Frank Walker, T. R. Peterman, John H. McCullough, William Renner, James Orr and William Frazier.