OBIT: George W. BRANDT, 1931, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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GEORGE W. BRANDT

Well known Hollidaysburg citizen and employe of the Pennsylvania 
railroad in Altoona, died at 7.17 o'clock last night at the 
Punxsutawney hospital, death being attributed to paralysis.  Mr. 
Brandt, accompanied by his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. 
Hartman Brandt, and his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Albert 
Stoner, motored on Sunday to the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Downey at 
Punxsutawney to spend the day.  During the noon meal Sunday, Mr. Brandt 
left the table and started down a flight of stairs but before he 
reached the bottom suffered a stroke and fell.  He was taken at once to 
the hospital where it was revealed he had been stricken with paralysis 
and he remained in an unconscious condition until last night when he 
died.  Mr. Brandt had been in his usual state of good health prior to 
being fatally stricken.  Deceased was a son of George W. and Sarah 
Brandt, both deceased, and was born in Hollidaysburg on Jan. 25, 1865.  
He was married in August, 1897, to Myrtle Green, who preceded him to 
the grave.  To this union the following children survive: Naomi, wife 
of Albert Stoner of Hollidaysburg; Miriam, wife of R. C. Buchanan of 
Altoona; Hartman, Wade and Mildred Brand Lindsey of Hollidaysburg.  He 
also leaves the following sisters: Mrs. H. Reffner. Mrs. John 
Blackstone and Miss Alma Brandt, all of Hollidaysburg, and Mrs. Ada 
Kurtz of Altoona.  He was a member of the Zion Lutheran church, 
Hollidaysburg.  He was employed by the Pennsylvania railroad as a 
machinist for more than thirty years.  The body has been removed to the 
home of the daughter, Mrs. Albert Stoner, 141 Bedford street, 
Hollidaysburg, where funeral services will be conducted at 2.30 o'clock 
Thursday afternoon in charge of Rev. J. S. Seebach of Philadelphia and 
Rev. M. Stanley Kemp of Hollidaysburg.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, November 3, 1931