OBIT: Catharine (HOOVER) GALLAGHER, 1899, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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MRS. CATHARINE GALLAGHER.

  Mrs. Catharine Gallagher, of 1329 Seventeenth avenue, pass quietly
away at her home at 5.30 o'clock Sunday morning of paralytic spasms,
from which she had suffered for eight years.  Deceased was born in
Pottsville, September 9, 1812, and was therefore in her 87th year.
She came to this vicinity when an infant with her parents and had
resided in the vicinity of Altoona ever since.  For the past eight
years she made her home with her daughter-in-law, Mrs. John McCune, of
1329 Seventeenth avenue, who has been constant in her care of the
invalid.  Deceased was married to Thomas Gallagher in 1832.  He died
thirty years ago.  She is survived by the following children: Mrs.
Jacob Schandelmeier, of Boone county, Iowa, and Mrs. John McCune, at
whose home she died.  She was a member of St. John's Catholic church.
  Two brothers, Levi Hoover, of Piney Creek, and Joseph Hoover, of 
Lima, Kan., also survive as do fourteen grand children and eighteen
great grand children.

Altoona Tribune, Thursday, February 9, 1899