OBIT: R. Ella (EICHOLTZ) HARPSTER, 1917, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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MRS. ELLA HARPSTER.

  Mrs. R. Ella Eicholtz Harpster, wife of Isaac Harpster, of 406 First 
avenue, died yesterday morning at 8:10 o'clock, of a complication of 
diseases, after a several weeks' illness.  She was born near 
Frankstown, April 23, 1853, and was a daughter of George and Eva 
Eicholtz, both deceased.  A devout charter member of the Bethany 
Lutheran church, she was a woman of Christian ideas and will be missed 
in her sphere of life.  Surviving are her husband, four sisters, 
Catherine, Margaret, Charlotte and Elizabeth, all of Frankstown, and 
two brothers, George and Charles Eicholtz.  Funeral services will be 
conducted from the home, on Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, the Rev. 
R. H. Berkstresser officiating.  Interment will follow in the 
Geeseytown cemetery.  Friends will omit flowers.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday Morning, January 27, 1917