Allegheny County PA Archives Obituaries.....McCLEARY, George; Jan. 12, 1910

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Obituary for George McCleary
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Jan 12, 1910

The friends of Mr. and Mrs. George McCleary, of Pittsburg and McKeesport, Pa. 
who spent the winter here five years ago will learn with regret of the death 
of Mr. McCleary at his home at McKeesport on New Year's day.  News of his 
death reached here yesterday in a copy of the Daily News of McKeesport of 
January 1 to R.L. Balke.  It said:

"George McCleary, a pioneer real estate man of this city died at 8 o'clock 
this morning at his home, 2304 Versailles Avenue, following a stroke of 
apoplexy which he suffered yesterday. He had been seriously ill for two 
months. Mr. McCleary was a good citizen and had a host of friends.  He was of 
a charitable disposition and was responsible for much happiness among those 
in need, but conducted his acts of charity in a quiet manner.  He handled 
some large real estate deals and had been in that business in this city for 
the past twenty years with the exception of a brief period spent in Arizona.  
For the past two years he was engaged as inspector for the local board of 
fire underwriters.

Mr. McCleary was born at Coulter, Pa. March 29, 1865 and consequently was 
forty four years old. With his family he came to McKeesport in 1880. On March 
29, 1898 he married Miss Dilia M. Lyon. Mr. McCleary is survived by his 
widow, his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth McCleary, a brother, Samuel and the 
following sisters, Tillie, Sarah and Emma McCleary, Mrs. Charles McCoy and 
Mrs. George Best all of this city and Mrs. Richard C.Hughes of Hazelwood.

The body will lay in state at his late home until Tuesday afternoon at 2 
o'clock where it may be viewed by friends until that time.  The funeral will 
be held Tuesday and it will be private."

Mr. and Mrs. McCleary arrived in Phoenix during the series of floods five 
years ago when the Gila River was biting a span or two off the old bridge 
everyday and cutting Phoneix's communications with the south. Mr. McCleary 
wrote his views on the flood situation in the Republican newspaper.  He was 
an active church worker and what he may have been impelled to say on the 
subject of the uncertainty of travel was not understood to smack in any way 
of profanity.  Here is what he wrote:

     "Where are you going, my pretty maid?"
     "I'm going to Phoenix, kind sir, "she said
     "You are, like hell," said a man on the train
     "For the Gila Bridge is out again."