OBIT: Irene DICK, 1918, Ore Hill, Blair County, PA

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Roaring Spring Items

"FLU" FATAL TO THREE.

  The Spanish influenza, followed by attacks of pneumonia, has resulted 
in the deaths of three well known Ore Hill young people since Tuesday.  
The little hamlet, where possibly 200 people reside and the male 
population is employed in the mines, is in the grip of the worst 
epidemic that has struck the village in many years.  Families of eight 
persons have been confined to their beds at the same time and more than 
forty cases are reported from that vicinity.  Several new cases 
demanded the attention of physicians yesterday.
  The disease resulted fatal for Arthur C. McGee, Emory Shade and Irene 
Dick.  Mrs. Ezra Dick, mother of the dead girl, has also developed 
pneumonia and her condition is serious.
  Irene Dick, daughter of Ezra and Margaret Dick, died at the home of 
her parents on Tuesday evening about 6 o'clock.  She was aged 12 years 
and was born at Ore Hill.  The child was survived by her parents, two 
brothers, Ellis and Daniel, and three sisters, Estella, Hattie and 
Katherine.  The funeral was held Thursday and interment made in the 
township Brethren cemetery.

Altoona Times, Saturday Morning, October 12, 1918