OBIT: Emma (KERNS) HELSEL, 1916, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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Mrs. David Helsel

  Mrs. David Helsel, of 118 Garber street, died at her home at 12:20 
o'clock Wednesday morning of pleuro-pneumonia after an illness of four 
days.  She was a daughter of Michael and Sarah Kerns, both deceased, 
and was born October 15, 1842.  She is survived by her aged husband and 
five children: Mrs. Edward Houck, Jesse and Howard, all of 
Hollidaysburg; B. G. and Miss Hettie, at home; also by eleven 
grandchildren, one brother, Henry Kerns, of New Florence, and one 
sister, Mrs. Rachael Treese, of Altoona.  She was a devoted member of 
the First Methodist Episcopal church of Hollidaysburg.  Funeral 
services will be conducted at her home by Rev. Charles T. Dunning on 
Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.  Public services and private 
interment in the Presbyterian cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday Morning, November 30, 1916

Blair County Genealogical Society, Hollidaysburg Presbyterian Cemetery 
Helsel, David, 1850-2/24/1931, Section C, Lot 486
Helsel, Emma W., 1842-12/1/1916, Section C, Lot 486

Blair County Genealogical Society, McFarland Funeral Home, 
Hollidaysburg, 1837-1932
Helsel, Mrs. Emma, bur. Presby. Cem., Dec. 1, 1916