OBIT: Robert Gerald BARNES, 1917, of interest in Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ ROBERT GERALD BARNES. Robert Gerald Barnes, son of Ford E. (deceased) and Mary J. Barnes, died at the Providence hospital, Detroit Mich., on February 7. He was operated on at the institution for appendicitis on February 1 and failed to rally from the ordeal. He was born in Detroit, November 21, 1906, and was a grandson of Mrs. J. Laubacher, of this city. The funeral was held in Detroit on Saturday. Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday Morning, February 13, 1917