OBIT: Margaret Gertrude BONSELL, 1916, native of Blair County, PA

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Miss Margaret Gertrude Bonsell
 
  One of the saddest deaths that has occurred in Spruce Creek Valley in 
many years was the passing away of Miss Margaret Gertrude Bonsell at 
her home in Spruce Creek, Huntingdon County, Pa., on Sunday morning, 
January 25, 1916, at 4:40 o'clock of peritonitis.  Miss Bonsell became 
ill last Monday morning and her condition immediately grew quite 
serious.  She was a young lady of splendid attainments and was held in 
high esteem by a large circle of friends.  She was a devoted member of 
the Presbyterian church of Spruce Creek, and was quite active in the 
Master's Work.  She was one of the efficient teachers in the Sunday 
School and a member of the Young People's Christian Endeavor society.  
Her passing away will be keenly felt not only in the home, but the 
entire community.  Margaret Gertrude Bonsell was a daughter of John 
Phillip and Effie May (Chilcote) Bonsell.  She was born in Altoona on 
January 25, 1897, and resided there for over eleven years.  The balance 
of her young life was spent in Spruce Creek.  Surviving to mourn her 
death are her parents and the following brothers and sisters: Carl, 
May, Alma, John, Raymond, Merrill, Dorothy, Norman, Ernest, Joseph and 
Gerald. Funeral services were conducted at the home on Tuesday morning 
at 10:30 o'clock by Reverend Walter K. Harnish.  Interment was made in 
Eastlawn Cemetery Blair County, Tyrone, Pa.

The Tyrone Herald, June 29, 1916, page 2