OBIT: Edward F. GALLAGHER, 1948, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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EDWARD F. GALLAGHER

Of 501 Seventh avenue, died at 12 o'clock Sunday noon in Mercy
hospital where he and Mrs. Gallagher had been patients for nearly
three months. Mr. Gallagher was the son of Bernard and Catherine
(Early) Gallagher. His parents came from Ireland and settled in Eckley
where Mr. Gallagher was born about 76 years ago. He was twice married.
His first wife, Bridget (O'Donnell) Gallagher, died in 1900, leaving
one son, Bernard, who now lives in Hazelton. He came to Altoona in
1900 and was employed by the PRR front which he retired about 13
years. In 1915 he married Mrs. Margaret Bailey in St. Mark's rectory.
She survives him with a step-son, Robert Bailey, of Chicago, his son
Bernard of Hazelton, and one sister, Mrs. Mary Sweeney of
Philadelphia. He was a member of St. Mark's Catholic church, the
Knights of St. George, United lodge 174, and the B. of R. T. Friends
will be received at the N. A. Stevens mortuary,

Altoona Mirror, Tuesday Evening, July 6, 1948, page 24