OBIT: James FRENCH, 1941, Lakemont, Blair County, PA

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PENNSY FIREMAN DIES ON ENGINE

  James French of 314 Second avenue, Lakemont, a locomotive fireman in 
the service of the Pennsylvania railroad on the Middle division, died 
of a heart attack on his engine at 12.30 o'clock this morning.
  Fireman French was a member of the crew under Conductor E. P. 
Brumbaugh bringing the Petersburg local, M-31, to Altoona with F. L. 
Kephart as engineer.  When the train reached Eldorado Engineer Kephart 
noticed his fireman had collapsed on the engine seat box.
  The stricken fireman was removed to the passenger station to be taken 
to the hospital and there he was pronounced dead by a member of the 
hospital staff.  Coroner C. C. Rothrock was summoned and after an 
investigation permitted the body to be removed to the Mauk & Yates 
funeral home.
  James French was born at McVeytown on March 18, 1894, a son of George 
W. and Catherine (Spigelmyer) French.  A member of the Brotherhood of 
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, he had twenty-three years of service 
with the Pennsylvania railroad.  He was a United Brethren by faith.
  He is survived by his father, George W. French of Lakemont; his wife, 
Alice (Butterbaugh) French; a step-son, Blair McCann of Boston, two 
sisters, Mrs. Mamie Roberto of Lakemont and Mrs. Josephine Spade of New 
Enterprise; two brothers, Clyde of Williamsburg and Earl of Lakemont, 
and a half-brother, Grant Thompson of Longfellow, Pa.
  Friends will be received at the Mauk & Yates funeral home.

FRENCH - Funeral services for James French of 314 Second avenue, South 
Lakemont, will be held Sunday afternoon, April 27, at 2.30 o'clock from 
the Mauk & Yates funeral home, Juniata, in charge of Rev. Ralph Jones.  
Interment at Vicksburg cemetery, Vicksburg, Pa.  Friends may view the 
body any time at Mauk & Yates funeral home.

Altoona Mirror, April 25, 1941