OBIT: Mary L. GIBBONEY, 1916, native of Blair County, PA

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MISS MARY L. GIBBONEY.

  At a private hospital in New York city on Thursday afternoon, Miss 
Mary L. Gibboney passed away after a lingering illness.  Miss Gibboney 
was a daughter of Benjamin F. and Sarah Akers Gibboney, and was born at 
Martinsburg.  Most of her life was spent in Tyrone and Altoona, except 
for a few years at Johnstown.  In early childhood she united with the 
Methodist Episcopal church, of which she was a devoted member until 
called to the church triumphant.  Her death comes as a release from 
great suffering and while friends will greatly miss her they rejoice in 
her assurance of a better world to which she has gone.  She was widely 
known here, having for several years been assistant librarian at the 
Altoona Mechanics' library, and having had a host of friends throughout 
the county.  Surviving are these brothers and sisters: Mrs. M. P. 
Canfield and James, of Mobile, Ala.; Mrs. C. S. Baker, of New York; 
John, of Ohio; Charles, of Tyrone.
  The funeral will take place Saturday morning, the cortege coming from 
New York and going to Martinsburg on the morning train.  Service will 
be held in the Methodist Episcopal church at Martinsburg and the body 
laid to rest in the family plot in the cemetery there.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Friday Morning, December 22, 1916