OBIT: Henry BECKMAN, 1918, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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HENRY BECKMAN.

  Henry Beckman, an aged and respected citizen of the First ward and a former 
sanitary officer of the city health bureau, died at his home, 1012 Sixteenth 
avenue, at 12:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon of diseases incident to old age 
after an illness extending over the period of a year.  Deceased was born on 
March 23, 1838, and had resided in the country for some seventy years.  He 
had resided in Altoona forty years and for a number of years he conducted a 
shoemaking shop at Chestnut avenue and Eleventh street on the site of the 
present federal building.  He served for fifteen years as sanitary officer, 
retiring from that position in 1915.  Surviving are his wife nee Sotia Fegler 
and five children, Mrs. T. O'Brien, of this city; Henry G. in the army at 
Sandy Hook Improvement grounds at Aberdeen, Md.; Sister Remiga, located in 
Elk county, and Joseph and Frank, at home.  He was a member of St. Mary's 
Catholic church.  The body will be taken to Latrobe for burial, the funeral 
to be held Thursday morning.

Altoona Tribune, Tuesday morning, August 27, 1918, page 2