OBIT: Margaret (SHOENFELT) HARPSTER, 1932, Bellwood, Blair County, PA

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MRS. MARGARET HARPSTER

Of Bellwood, died at the Nason hospital, Roaring Spring, at 1.48 
o'clock yesterday afternoon of a complication of diseases after having 
been a patient at the hospital for the past five weeks. She was born at 
Roaring Spring on Oct. 5, 1860, a daughter of Jacob and Barbara 
Shoenfelt, and was united in marriage on June 15, 1879, at Martinsburg 
with J. Austin Harpster. Her husband died on May 24, 1887. Surviving 
are two daughters and two sons, Mrs. Alice Dick, Mrs. Clyde Houser and 
Homer G. Harpster of the city and Jacob Earl Harpster of Buffalo, N.Y. 
Four sisters, Mrs. Barbara Smith and Mrs. Della Hoover of the city, 
Mrs. Sue Croft of Duncansville and Mrs. Clarinda Hudson of Roaring 
Spring, also survive. Mrs. Harpster was a member of the Evangelical 
Lutheran church of Roaring Spring. Private funeral services will be 
held at the Lafferty funeral home at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. 
Interment will be made in Fairview cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Wednesday, 31 August 1932