OBIT: Cecelia A. (KUHN) CONFER, 1915, Blair County, PA

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DEATHS OF A DAY

MRS. CECELIA A. CONFER.

Mrs. Cecelia A. Confer, wife of Captain F. P. Confer, of 1600
Sixteenth street, died at the Mercy hospital at 3.15 o'clock yesterday
afternoon of apoplexy.  She suffered a stroke of paralysis on Thursday
afternoon at 3.30 o'clock at her home and was removed to the Mercy a
short time afterward.  Her condition was serious and a second stroke
yesterday afternoon resulted in death.

Mrs. Confer was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Kuhn, and was born
near Ebensburg, in Jackson township, Cambria county, on March 17,
1843.  She was married to Captain F. P. Confer, of Johnstown, July 17,
1866, and the couple spent the first three years of their married life
in the oil country in the vicinity of Titusville, where Mr. Confer was
engaged in the oil industry.  They then came to this city, where they
have lived for the last forty-three years.  She is survived by her
husband and one sister, Mrs. Joseph Krouse, of Johnstown, and one son,
Frank, of this city.  The deceased woman was a member of St. John's
Catholic church.  Funeral announcements will be made later.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, January 30, 1915, page 16