OBIT: Elsie C. (BRANTNER) AFRICA, 1918, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ AFRICA. Mrs. Elsie C. Africa, wife of Lawrence Africa, died at the family home, 230 Seventh avenue, yesterday afternoon, at 2.30 o'clock, of pneumonia. She was born Dec. 12, 1884, and is survived by her husband and the following six children: Marguerite, Elizabeth, Helen, William, Leroy and Lawrence. She is also survived by the following brothers and sisters: John, William, Charles and Porter Brantner, all of Williamsburg; Mrs. Emma Edwards of Blair Four and Mrs. Effie Baughman of this city. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and the funeral will be held on Tuesday forenoon at 10 o'clock. Interment in Rose Hill cemetery. Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Monday Morning, October 28, 1918