OBIT: Hettie J. (WILSON) BEASTON, 1937, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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MRS. HETTIE J. BEASTON

  Mrs. Hettie Jane Beaston, widow of John A. Beaston, died at the home 
of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest B. Dawson, 524 West 
Twenty-First street, this morning at 2:40 o'clock, following a six 
week's illness with a heart condition.  
  Mrs. Beaston was a daughter of McNair and Mary Elizabeth (Rupert) 
Wilson and was born at Academia, Juniata County, on April 27, 1859.  On 
January 1, 1885, at Mifflintown, Pa., she was united in marriage with 
John A. Beaston who died in 1923.  Mrs. Beaston had been a resident of 
the Seventh Ward Tyrone since 1891.  
  She is survived by three children: Harry F. Beaston, Mrs. Ernest B. 
Dawson, Tyrone; and Mrs. Howard M. Foster, Norwood, Pa.  She is also 
survived by eight grandchildren and one great grandchild. She was the 
last of her immediate family.  
  She was a member of the Columbia Avenue Methodist Episcopal church.  
  Funeral services will be held at the Dawson home on Twenty-First 
street on Monday afternoon at two o'clock, conducted by Rev. Dr. Bert 
A. Salter, pastor of the Columbia Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, 
followed by burial in Grandview Cemetery.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., January 1, 1937