OBIT: John D. CRAWFORD, 1958, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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JOHN D. CRAWFORD 
 
  John D. Crawford, 703 West 15th st., died at the Tyrone Hospital last 
night at ll:55 o'clock after a brief Illness.
  Crawford was born in Sinking Valley March 14, 1870, a son of Foster 
and Louisa Tussey Crawford.  On March 14, 1907, he married Helen Moore 
of Canoe Valley, who survives, with two daughters, Eleanor, wife of 
George D. Weiss of Kutztown, and Dorothy Dean Crawford at home; one 
sister, Mrs. Hays W. Culp of Altoona; and two grandsons, John Crawford 
Weiss and Robert S. Weiss of Kutztown; one nephew at home, William P. 
Moore, and a number of nieces and nephews.  
  He farmed on the old Crawford Homestead in Sinking Valley until he 
retired  to Tyrone in 1946.
  In early life, he united with the Sinking Valley Presbyterian Church 
where he served as an elder for many years before moving to Tyrone 
where he united with the First Presbyterian church and served as an 
elder there.
  Friends will be received at the home on Saturday between the hours of 
2 to 5, and 7 to 9 p.m.  Services will be held at the home on Sunday at 
2:30 p.m. conducted by Dr. R. L. Hutchinson.  Interment will be in the 
Arch Spring Presbyterian cemetery.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., January 17, 1958, page 2