OBIT: Ada R. (COLBERT) ICKES, 1961, Loop Station, Blair County, PA

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MRS. ADA R. ICKES

Of Loop Station, died at 12.30 p.m. yesterday in Mercy Hospital where 
she was admitted on Monday. She was born at Covedale Feb. 7, 1898, a 
daughter of Hezekiah and Clara (Mench) Colbert, but was reared in the 
home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Keasey, who adopted her in 1906. On June 11, 
1918, at Cumberland, Md., she married Charles W. Ickes. Surviving are 
her husband, four sons, Paul of Brunswick, N.J., William of Phoenix, 
Ariz., Robert of Hollidaysburg RD 1, and Fred and Cleveland, Ohio; 
eight grandchildren, a brother and sister, Mrs. Raymond Decker and 
Melvin K. of the city. She was a member of the Hollidaysburg Church of 
God, Fidelas Bible Class and Hollidaysburg Chapter, O.E.S. Friends will 
be received at the Creamer & Plank Funeral Home after 7 p.m. today.

Altoona Mirror, August 3, 1961