OBIT: Fred Bruce BURNS, 1963, Sinking Valley, Blair County, PA

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FRED BRUCE BURNS 

Of Sinking Valley, died at 2 a.m. today in the Tyrone Hospital after an 
extended illness.  He was born in Roaring Spring Feb. 7, 1890, a son of 
Harry and Alice (Boyles) Burns, and on Nov. 11, 1919, in Ebensburg married 
Kathryn Sprankle.  Surviving are his wife, nine children, Nathan of 
Bellwood, Harry and Charles of Akron, O., Mrs. Betty Rafferty and Mrs. Gwen 
Beirley of Niagara Falls, N.Y., Mrs. Gada Fink of Tyrone, Fred, David and 
Orris at home; 27 grandchildren, one great-grandchild, a brother and sister, 
Clarence of Washington, D.C., and Mrs. George Line of Altoona.  He was of 
the Baptist faith and retired in January 1960 from the McLanahan Stone 
Company, Hollidaysburg, after 25 years of service.  Friends will be received 
at the Johnson Mortuary, Bellwood, after (?) p.m. today.

Altoona Mirror, June 26, 1963