OBIT: Jesse U. HELSEL, 1961, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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DIES IN HOSPITAL
JESSE U. HELSEL [photograph of deceased]
Hollidaysburg Aged Resident Called by Death

  Jesse U. Helsel, 88, of 505 Pine St., Hollidaysburg, died at 4.50 
p.m. yesterday in the Altoona Hospital, where he was admitted July 18, 
after a brief illness. He and Mrs. Helsel would have celebrated their 
65th wedding anniversary in November.
  He was born April 7, 1873, in Hollidaysburg, a son of David and Emma 
(Kearns) Helsel, and married Maria Dora Carothers of Hollidaysburg Nov. 
26, 1896, in the bride's home.
  Surviving are his wife, three children, Jesse of Hyattsville, Md., 
Cecil of Philipsburg and Mrs. Helen Louise Wertz of Duncansville; seven 
grandchildren and a sister, Miss Hettie of Hollidaysburg.
  Mr. Helsel was a member of the Hollidaysburg Church of God, the 
oldest member of the Judson Bible Class, and a member of the Macabees. 
He retired in 1944 as a molder for the McLanahan-Stone Company and 
served from 1948 to 1956 as sexton at the Hollidaysburg Presbyterian 
Church.
  Friends will be received at the Liebegott Funeral Home, Duncansville, 
after 7 p.m. today.

Blair County Genealogical Society, Hoenstine Obituary Collection, vol. 
38, p. 25 (1961)
[pencil date "8-1-61", which was the publication date in the Altoona 
Mirror; this coupled with the phrase "died at 4.50 p.m. yesterday" 
gives us the death date 31 July 1961 - ed.]