OBIT: Sherman Guy AMICK, 1957, Lake Altoona, Blair County, PA

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SHERMAN GUY AMICK

An employee of the city water department for 43 years, died at 6.15 
o'clock last evening at his home at Lake Altoona where he was stationed 
as caretaker. He had been in ill health the past year. Mr. Amick was 
born in Bedford county Jan. 17, 1887, a son of Wilson and Mary 
(Shaffer) Amick. He was a member of the Fifty-eighth Street Methodist 
church, of the Men's Bible class and the Kittanning Trail Volunteer 
Fire company. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Stella (Hanks) Amick; six 
children, Mrs. Hazel Hostler and Mrs. Virginia Horner of Altoona, Miss 
Alma and Mrs. Irma Mowry of Huntingdon, W.Va., Mrs. Margie Osborne of 
Mt. Airy, Md., and Mrs. Jean Patterson of Altoona; eight grandchildren, 
three brothers and two sisters, Ira of Orlando, Fla., Marshall of 
Cumberland, Md., Rush and Mrs. Lillian Yon of Altoona and Miss Grace of 
Willow Grove. A daughter, Mrs. Vera Toms, died in July, 1953. Friends 
may call at the Lafferty funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening.

Blair County Genealogical Society, Hoenstine Obituary Collection, vol. 
25, p. 4 (1957)
[pencil date "2-5-57", which was the Altoona Mirror publication date; 
coupled with the phrase "died at 6.15 o'clock last evening" we 
calculated the death date as 4 February 1957 - ed.]