OBIT: Frank Albert FORD, 1917, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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DR. FRANK A. FORD DIES EARLY TODAY
Well Known Eye Specialist Succumbs to Complication of Diseases

  Dr. Frank Albert Ford, the well-known eye specialist, died at 1:45 
o'clock this morning at the home of his mother, Mrs. Albert Ford, of 
the Blumenthal apartments, Fourteenth avenue and Twelfth street.
  Dr. Ford was well known in Altoona, being a native of Cresson and a 
resident of Altoona for the past seventeen years.  He was born May 25, 
1875at Cresson.  He was graduated from the medical school of the 
University of Pennsylvania in 1879 [sic],, after which he spent a year 
as a resident physician in the Christopher hospital, Philadelphia, and 
a year in the Wills' Eye hospital, also located at that place.  He was 
also a resident physician at the Altoona hospital.
  After leaving the Wills' hospital he came to Altoona and began 
practicing, becoming in time one of the leading eye specialists of the 
county.  For the past year he had offices at Thirteenth avenue and 
Twelfth street.  He had been ill intermittently for the past several 
years, and had been confined to bed at his mother's home for the last 
four months.  Death was due to a complication of diseases.  He is 
survived by his wife and one child, Boyd Albert.  His mother and one 
sister, Mrs. Myers, of Wilkinsburg, also survive.  Dr. Ford was a 
nephew of S. A. Ford, of Bellwood, superintendent of the Bellwood 
division of the Pennsylvania railroad.
  Dr. Ford was a member of the Second Presbyterian church, the Masons 
and the Altoona Lodge of the Elks.  He was also a member of the Blair 
County Medical society, the American Medical association and the 
Pennsylvania State Medical society.  The funeral arrangements will be 
announced later.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday Morning, February 10, 1917

Funeral Notice.

  Funeral services of the late Dr. Frank A. Ford will be held at 2 
o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the residence, 1130 Thirteenth avenue.  
At 3:20 the body will be taken to Tyrone, where burial will be made at 
Grandview cemetery.  Logan lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, this city, 
will have charge of the services at the cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday Morning, February 12, 1917

Funeral Notice.

  Funeral services of the late Dr. F. A. Ford will be held at 2 o'clock 
this afternoon at the residence, 1130 Thirteenth avenue.  At 3:30 
o'clock p.m. the body will be taken to Tyrone for interment in 
Grandview cemetery.  Friends are invited to the services.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday Morning, February 13, 1917