OBIT: Mary Melinda (LEECH) CREE, 1917, Shawtown, Blair County, PA

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Hollidaysburg

Mrs. Mary Melinda Cree.

  Mrs. Mary Melinda Cree, a resident of Shawtown, near Loop Station, 
died on Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, at the Nason sanitarium at 
Roaring Spring, of strangulation of the bowels, following an operation.  
She was taken suddenly ill on Wednesday and on Saturday it was learned 
that an operation was necessary and she was removed to the sanitarium 
for that purpose.  Deceased was born at Mifflin, Juniata county, and 
was a daughter of Orin and Catherine Leech.  She was aged about 60 
years at the time of death.  Her husband, John Cree, preceded her to 
the grave some years ago.  Mrs. Cree was a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal church and was a good wife and mother and held in the highest 
esteem by all who knew her.  For the past several years she had resided 
at Shawtown with some of her children.  She is survived by eight 
children, as follows: Jesse H., Cloyd, John E., Daniel R., at home; 
Harry and Samuel, of Huntingdon; Charles and Mrs. Rhoda Van Derweeler, 
of Kalamazoo, Mich.; also by three brothers - Elmer E., John G. and 
Irwin Leech, of Mifflin.  The funeral services have not been arranged 
and will be announced later.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday Morning, February 5, 1917

Hollidaysburg.

  The remains for Mrs. Mary M. Cree, who died at the Nason hospital at 
Roaring Spring on Sunday morning, will be shipped from her home near 
Loop Station, after short funeral services by Funeral Director Thomas 
B. McFarland on the 6:52 train this evening to the home of her son at 
Huntingdon.  Interment will be made at that place.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday Morning, February 6, 1917