OBIT: John "Mynie" HELSEL, 1971, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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JOHN "MYNIE" HELSEL 

Of 511 Coleridge Ave., formerly of 1511 Allegheny St., Hollidaysburg, 
where he served as a barber for some 50 years, retiring three years 
ago, died at 11:50 p.m. yesterday, March 30, 1971, in Mercy Hospital, 
where he was admitted early Monday morning. He was born in 
Hollidaysburg May 1, 1900, a son of Samuel B. and Anna Mae (Eicholtz) 
Helsel. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Leona McDermitt, with whom he 
resided; one grandson and two brothers and a sister, R. Edgar, Blair M. 
and Mrs. Marguerite Kimberling of Hollidaysburg. Mr. Helsel was a 
veteran of World War I. He was a member of the Foot of Ten Bible Church 
and a life member of the Phoenix Fire Company, Hollidaysburg. Friends 
will be received in the Plank Funeral Home, Hollidaysburg, from 2 to 4 
and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow.

Altoona Mirror, March 31, 1971