OBIT: Wilma (MEYERS) BLACK, 1918, Klahr, Blair County, PA

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BLACK

  Mrs. Wilma Black, wife of Howard Black, died at 10.30 o'clock 
Thursday night at the family home at Klahr, 3 miles west of Claysburg, 
of pneumonia, following influenza.  She was ill but a short time.  Mrs. 
Black was the daughter of William, deceased, and Sarah Meyers and was 
born near Claysburg, Jan. 23, 1889.  She was united in marriage with 
Howard Black, Feb. 1, 1906, at Cumberland, Md.  Surviving are the 
husband and three sons, Ralph, aged 10 years; Leon, aged 8 years, and 
Guy, aged 2 years; an infant son, William, preceded her to the grave 
Wednesday.  Her mother, Mrs. Sarah Meyers, of Claysburg, and these 
brothers and sisters, survive: Calvin Meyers and Mrs. Josiah Burket, of 
Altoona; George Meyers and Mrs. Jessie Berkheimer, of Roaring Spring, 
Mrs. Heusten Croyle, Mrs. Gilmore Feathers and Mrs. Harry Dively, of 
Claysburg, and Mrs. Ross Fickes, of King, Bedford county.  She was a 
member of the Greenfield Reformed church.  The funeral will be held at 
the home Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, by her pastor, Rev. Calvin 
Skyles, assisted by Rev. F. C. Schrader.  Interment will be made in the 
Lutheran cemetery at Claysburg.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Saturday Morning, December 14, 1918