OBIT: Harrison Munroe BURNS, 1937, Brook's Mills, Blair County, PA

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HARRISON MUNROE BURNS 

Of Brookes Mills, a retired car inspector and for many years a resident of 
Bellwood, died at his home at 6:20 o'clock yesterday morning [28 Nov 1937, 
per his death certificate - ed.] of a heart attack. He was born in Rodman on 
Feb. 20, 1866, a son of Samuel and Catherine Burns. Before employing the 
service of the railroad company he was employed in the Tyrone plant of the 
West Virginia Pulp & Paper company. His first wife, Mrs. Alice (Boyles) 
Burns, died on March 27, 1925. Surviving are his second wife, three sons and 
three daughters, Fred B. of Sinking Valley, Clarence S. of Jersey City, 
N.J., Mrs. Marie Line of Altoona, Mrs. Lena Goss, J. Harold and Miss Nina 
Burns, all of Bellwood; three sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Nancy Helsel, 
Mrs. Rheuanna Albright and Grant Burns of Roaring Spring, Mrs. Melcene Lynn 
of Johnstown and Scott Burns of Windber. Mr. Burns was a member of the 
Bellwood Methodist church and a charter member of the Jr. O.U.A.M. of 
Tyrone.

Altoona Mirror, November 29, 1937