OBIT: Lucy (HELSEL) BRAWLEY, 1935, Duncansville, Blair County, PA

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MRS. LUCY (HELSEL) BRAWLEY

Wife of Dewey Brawley of McKillip's extension, near New Portage 
Junction, died yesterday morning at 10.35 o'clock at the home of her 
brother, Marshall Helsel, 403 Sixteenth street, Duncansville, of 
pneumonia after a brief illness. Hers was the second death within a 
week in the Brawley family. A 4-month-old son, Ray Ronald Brawley, 
succumbed to pneumonia last Sunday night at the Helsel home, where they 
had been taken after being stricken because of alterations at their own 
home. The deceased was born on Sept. 15, 1904, at East Freedom, and was 
a daughter of Henry and Lucy (Hess) Helsel. On Oct. 13, 1924, at 
Cumberland, Md., she was united in marriage with Dewey Brawley, who 
survives, together with three of the four children born to the union, 
Dewey Ellwood, Howard Cleveland and Lucy Joan. She is also survived by 
her mother and two sisters and four brothers, Mrs. Mary Ridenour of 
Dayton, O., Mrs. Suzanna Wineland of near Duncansville, Howard Helsel 
of Pontiac, Mich., and Marshall, Elwood and James Helsel, all of 
Duncansville. She was a lifelong resident of Blair county and had 
resided near New Portage Junction for the past several years. She 
attended the Hicks Memorial Methodist church and Sunday school of 
Duncansville. Interment will be made in Carson Valley cemetery.

Blair County Genealogical Society, Archie Claar Obituary Collection, 
vol. 2, p. 166 (1935)
[pencil date "2/8/35"; publication date in Altoona Mirror was 9 Feb 
1935; combined with the phrase "died yesterday morning" we calculate 
the death date to be the same as the pencil date, 8 February 1935 - 
ed.]