OBIT: Emma (WEYANDT) BURNS, 1944, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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MRS. EMMA BURNS

Of 516 First avenue, died at her home at 5.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon 
after a long illness. She was born April 6, 1860, a daughter of Jacob and 
Sophia (Weyandt) Weyandt. She was married to William T. Burns, who died 
twenty-nine years ago. Mrs. Burns was the mother of eleven children, eight 
surviving: Mrs. Laura Burket, Claysburg; Mrs. Mary Grau, at home; Mrs. 
Katherine Ostrander, Altoona; Charles, Samuel, Merle, Francis, and Clyde, 
Altoona; one sister, Mrs. Sophia Graybill, twenty-three grandchildren, 
twenty-five great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. Mrs. 
Burns was a member of the Trinity Reformed church. Friends will be received 
at the home after 7 o'clock this evening.

BURNS - Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Burns of 516 First avenue, will be 
conducted Friday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, in charge of Rev. Howard Boyer, 
Trinity Reformed Church. Interment, in Greenwood cemetery. Friends are being 
received at the home.

Blair County Genealogical Society, Obituary Collection clipping is marked 
"10/3" but no year is stated 
[Altoona Mirror, October 4, 1944]