OBIT: Alexander HELSEL, 1942, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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ALEXANDER HELSEL

Of 802 Jones street, Hollidaysburg, died at the Mercy hospital at 6.30 
o'clock last evening after an extended illness. He was born Feb. 18, 
1855, near Newry. His wife died thirty years ago. He is survived by two 
sons and one daughter, Forest E. Helsel of Pittsburgh, Howard M. Helsel 
of Hollidaysburg and Mrs. Hulda L. LeCrone of Eldorado. Also surviving 
are one brother, Samuel Helsel of Pittsburgh and one sister, Mrs. 
Minnie Beegle of Duncansville, and fourteen grandchildren and nine 
great-grandchildren. Mr. Helsel was a member of the Zion Lutheran 
church of Hollidaysburg. Friends are being received at the home of a 
son, Howard M. Helsel, 802 Jones street, with whom he had resided for 
some time.

HELSEL - The funeral of Alexander Helsel of Hollidaysburg will be held 
from the Zion Lutheran church with services Saturday at 2.30 in charge 
of Rev. M. Stanley Kemp. Interment follows in the Newry Lutheran 
cemetery. Friends are being received at the Howard M. Helsel home at 
802 Jones street, Hollidaysburg at any time.

Altoona Mirror, November 19, 1942