OBIT: Orlando G. FLECK, 1915, Sinking Valley, Blair County, PA

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ORLANDO G. FLECK.
Sinking Valley Citizen Died on Sunday Morning.

  At five minutes after 9 o'clock on Sunday morning, the death angel 
entered the home of Orlando G. Fleck, on the Templeton farm in Sinking 
Valley, and took therefrom the husband and father.  Two weeks ago Mr. 
Fleck worked for the greater part of a day in the rain, and this 
exposure brought on a chill which later developed into pneumonia.  The 
disease attacked both lungs and caused his death at the hour mentioned.
  Orlando Gibson Fleck was a son of George and Sarah Ann (Tussey) 
Fleck, both deceased, and was born in Canoe valley, Huntingdon county, 
May 13, 1855.  He belonged to the fifth generation of the Fleck name in 
this section, his great-great-grandfather having been one of the 
pioneer settlers of Sinking Valley.
  Mr. Fleck's entire life was spent on the farm, most of it being in 
Sinking Valley, where for many years he was an industrious and 
successful farmer.  He was of genial disposition and kind spirit, 
always willing to render assistance to others in time of need.  On 
February 20, 1877, at the Presbyterian parsonage near Arch Spring, he 
was united in marriage to Miss Charlotte Ramey, daughter of Frank and 
Sarah Ann Ramey, of Indiana county.  To this union were born ten 
children, seven of whom with the wife and mother survive, as follows: 
Herbert F., Lee Earnest, and Mrs. Benjamin Lewis, of Altoona; Mrs. 
George Fleck of South Altoona; and Anna L., A. Roller, and Clara B., at 
home.  Three brothers and one sister also survive, H. Alton, Mrs. W. G. 
McCormick, D. Tussey, and George, all of Sinking Valley.
  Mr. Fleck was a member of the Presbyterian church at Arch Spring.  He 
was also connected with the Sinking Valley grange No. 484, Patrons of 
Husbandry, and with the Loyal Order of Moose.  He was a Republican in 
politics, always taking an active interest in the party with which he 
was identified.
  Funeral services were held on Tuesday.  The cortege left the late 
home at one o'clock, and the services were conducted in the 
Presbyterian church at Arch Spring, by the pastor, Rev. Walter Harnish.  
Interment in Arch Spring cemetery.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., Thursday, January 28, 1915