OBIT: Joseph BEEMILLER, 1919, Bedford, Bedford County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/bedford/ _______________________________________________ JOSEPH BEEMILLER. Special to the Tribune. Bedford, Feb. 14. - Joseph Beemiller, an aged resident of this place, passed away late Wednesday night at his home on East Pitt street, after a lingering illness of paralysis, in his 81st year. Deceased was born in Adams county and when a young man came to this section, for many years residing on a farm in Cumberland valley, not far from Bedford. Within recent years he removed to town. His wife and eight children survive: John of Wichita, Kan.; Gertrude Jordan, Frank and Albert Beemiller, of Akron, O.; Mrs. W. H. Straub and Miss Grace of this place, and Mrs. George Leonard and Mrs. James Heming, of Bedford township. The funeral services will be held tomorrow morning in St. Thomas' Catholic church, of which he was a life-long member. Interment in the cemetery near town. Altoona Tribune, Saturday, February 15, 1919, page 10