OBIT: Charlotte (PORTER) HILTNER, 1955, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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Mrs. Charlotte (Porter) Hiltner

  Mrs. Charlotte (Porter) Hiltner, of the Harpster apartments, Tyrone, 
died at the Tyrone Hospital at 4 p.m. Friday, April 15, 1955, following 
an extended Illness.  She was born at Spruce Creek, a daughter of Major 
and Mrs. John Porter, and spent most of her life in Tyrone.  She 
married Clement S. Hiltner at her home 1201 Washington Avenue, Tyrone.  
Surviving are the husband and two sons: The Reverend Clement Seward 
Hiltner, D.D., member of the faculty of the University of Chicago; 
Robert Porter Hiltner, Silver Spring, Maryland; five grandchildren and 
a sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles Clark, Pittsburgh, who has been in Tyrone 
for some time.  Mrs. Hiltner was a graduate of Tyrone High School, 
class of 1896; a lifelong member of the First Presbyterian Church of 
Tyrone; for over 40 years teacher of a Sunday School class of young 
women, the Mrs. C. S. Hiltner Bible Class; a member of the former 
Ladies Aid of the church; of the Moore Mission Circle, and of the Round 
Table Club.  She wrote a complete history of the Tyrone First 
Presbyterian Church several years ago, and recently the history of the 
Huntingdon Presbytery.  She also collaborated with the history for the 
one hundredth anniversary of the First Evangelical United Brethren 
Church, and wrote plays and sketches for church Sunday School and 
Missionary organizations.  Mrs. Hiltner was a member of the Tyrone 
Hospital Auxiliary, wrote all the names of the donors in the Memory 
Book which is in the lobby of the institution, and also wrote the 
dedicatory history for Tyrone hospital.  Funeral services were held 
this Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Graham and Getz Funeral home, 
Tyrone in charge of the Reverend Robert L. Hutchinson, pastor of the 
First Presbyterian Church, Tyrone.  Interment in Grandview Cemetery, 
Snyder Township, Blair County, Tyrone.

Daily News, Huntingdon, Pa., April 18, 1955, page 10