OBIT: Catherine (CHARLES) GEESEY, 1915, Blair County, PA

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DEATHS OF A DAY

MRS. CATHERINE GEESEY

Mrs. Catherine Geesey, widow of Levi Geesey, for many years a
prominent foreman in the Altoona car shops, died of pneumonia at 11:35
o'clock yesterday morning in Philadelphia, where she made her home
since the death of her husband on May 7, 1912.  She was taken ill last
Sunday.  Mrs. Geesey was born in Hollidaysburg on November 19, 1840,
her maiden name being Miss Charles; and with her husband she spent the
greater part of her life in Altoona.  She is survived by three
children, E. O. Geesey, of this city, and Mrs. C. G. Cook and H. I.
Geesey, of Philadelphia; also by one brother, T. C. Charles of
Altoona.  She was a member of the First Lutheran church of this city.
The body will be brought to Altoona and taken to the home of her son
at 1300 Seventeenth avenue, where the funeral will take place on
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock.  Private interment will be made in
Fairview cemetery

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, April 10, 1915, page 16