OBIT: Ruth Agnes (COURTER) HOUSTON, 1919, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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MRS. RUTH AGNES HOUSTON.

  Mrs. Ruth Agnes Houston, wife of Earl Houston, of 1519 Sixth avenue, 
died at 1:50 o'clock yesterday morning at the Altoona hospital, of 
embolism, following a brief illness.  She was born in this city on 
August 8, 1893, the daughter of Amos and Anna Courter, deceased, and 
was married on February 15, 1913.  She was a member of the Calvary 
Baptist church.  Surviving are her husband, one daughter, Beatrice E., 
and a step-mother, Mrs. Mary Courter, of this city, and three sisters, 
Mrs. A. E. Bassett, of Binghampton [sic], N.Y.; Miss Rebecca Courter of 
Roaring Spring, and Mrs. Harry Yost, of this city. The funeral will 
take place tomorrow afternoon, leaving the house at 2 o'clock, followed 
by services at the Calvary Baptist church at 2:30. Interment will be 
made in Rose Hill cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Thursday, February 13, 1919