OBIT: Alphonse Pedro CURERE, 1918, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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HOLLIDAYSBURG
A. P. Curere Dead.

  Alphonse Pedro Curere, one of the leading merchants and best known 
Italian residents of the town, died last evening at 7 o'clock of 
pneumonia, with which he had been ill for the past two weeks, at his 
home corner of Mulberry and Clark streets.  Deceased was a son of John 
and Mary Curere and was born at St. Pedro, Italy, forty years ago, his 
father being the owner of a large fruit farm.  The son came to America 
in 1901, first residing in Philadelphia for six months, when he came to 
Hollidaysburg and was in charge of a workmen's commissary for Riley and 
Webber, when that firm built the East Hollidaysburg freight 
classification yards.  Eleven years later he entered the grocery 
business in the building at the corner of Walnut and Bella streets now 
occupied by Groceryman T. I. Smith, and five years ago removed his 
store to Allegheny street near Penn, where he had been ever since.  Mr. 
Curere was a very intelligent man and possessed of a genial 
disposition, and his untimely demise will be deeply regretted by all 
who bore his acquaintance.  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rose Drass 
Curere, two children having been born to this union, both of whom are 
dead.  His father and mother, one brother, Santo, in the Italian army, 
and two sisters, Josephine and Catherine, also survive and reside in 
Italy.  Deceased was a member of the St. Michael's Catholic church.  
The funeral arrangements will be announced later.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Thursday Morning, November 14, 1918