OBIT: Winthrop C. FANNING, 1919, of interest in Blair County, PA

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LIEUTENANT FANNING DIES OF PNEUMONIA
Aviation Officer Succumbed in France, March 10 - Has Wife and Son Here

  Mrs. W. C. Fanning, of 1235 Nineteenth avenue, formerly Miss Emily 
Lauver, was yesterday notified by the adjutant general's office that 
her husband, Lieutenant Winthrop Colt Fanning, died in France on March 
10, of bronchial pneumonia following Spanish flu.
  Lieutenant Fanning was a New Yorker and was one of the early 
volunteers in the United States aviation service, after war was 
declared.  Rapidly acquired proficiency as a flyer won for him the rank 
of a second lieutenant and for almost a year he was detailed as an 
airplane instructor on aviation fields in the states, notably at 
Detroit, where his wife was with him for many months in 1918.  
  After a furlough in which Lieutenant and Mrs. Fanning were guests in 
the Juniata home of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bennett, the aviator went to 
France last fall.  The bereaved young wife was a Juniata girl and 
taught for several years in the borough schools.  Later she was 
instructor in High school at Sewickley.
  In civil life the deceased soldier was also engaged in advanced 
educational work.  Since his sailing to France last November, Mrs. 
Fanning and their baby son, Winthrop Colt Fanning, jr., have resided at 
1235 Nineteenth avenue, Altoona.

Altoona Tribune, Friday Morning, March 21, 1919