OBIT: Mary Catherine FUNK, 1927, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by DBA Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ MARY CATHERINE FUNK Services for Mary Catherine Funk who died yesterday at 1:55 a.m. at the home of her step-father, Homer W. Washbarger, Columbia apartments, Eighth avenue and Seventh street will be held at the First Methodist church of Juniata Saturday at 10 a.m. The body will be taken, following the services, to Ryde where interment will be made. She was 17 and was a daughter of John and Nellie Funk, both deceased and was born in Juniata where she resided for the greater part of her life, for many years with Mrs. Hugh Riley of Fifth avenue. She had been ill for years, suffering with diabetes. Surviving are Earl Funk of Philadelphia, a brother, Jesse, a half-brother, Helen and Dorothy Harshbarger of Ryde, half sisters and her step-father with whom she lived. Altoona Tribune, March 24, 1927