OBIT: John Edgar CAMPBELL, 1941, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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JOHN EDGAR CAMPBELL

Of 1402 Eighteenth avenue, a retired Pennsylvania Edison company engineer, 
died at his home at 8.10 o'clock last evening.  He was born at Upper Lisle, 
N.Y., on Sept. 16, 1852, a son of John and Mariah (Lawton) Campbell, and 
married Miss Emma Coble, who died on April 13, 1928.  Mr. Campbell retired 
from the Pennsylvania Edison company in 1929 after forty years' service, 
having entered the company employ when it was known as the Edison 
Illuminating company.  Surviving are four sons and four daughters, Mrs. Mary 
Maud Collinson at home, Mrs. M. F. Plummer of Hollidaysburg, Mrs. R. G. 
Prosser of Altoona, E. T. Campbell, at home, Maurice J. and Z. S. Campbell 
of the city, Frank B. of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Ruth Pennsyl, at 
home; nineteen grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.  Mr. Campbell was 
a member of the First Methodist church and of Archie Maxwell lodge, No. 145, 
of Odd Fellows.  Friends are being received at the Laughlin funeral home.

CAMPBELL - Funeral services for John Edgar Campbell, of 1402 Eighteenth 
avenue will be held at the Laughlin funeral home Saturday afternoon at 2.30 
o'clock in charge of Rev. William Taylor.  Interment in Fairview cemetery.  
Friends are being received at the Laughlin funeral home after 6 o'clock this 
evening.

Altoona Mirror, Thursday, February 13, 1941