OBIT: Bessie (HARRIS) KAUFFMAN, 1915, Blair County, PA

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DEATHS OF A DAY

MRS. BESSIE KAUFFMAN.

The sad intelligence reached this city by telegraph late yesterday
afternoon that Mrs. Bessie Kauffman, wife of Rev. D. D. Kauffman,
pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal church, had died at the Methodist
hospital at is 4:15 o'clock.  She had been in poor health for some
months and on Sunday night, June 6, she was taken to the institution
where she was operated on last Friday.  She failed to rally from the
shock and slowly sank until she passed away.

Mrs. Kauffman was the daughter of William (deceased) and Ella Harris,
of Shirleysburg, and was aged about 45 years.  She was reared in her
native town and some nineteen years ago was married to Rev. Kauffman.
She came to this city in the spring from Patton when her husband was
assigned to the pastorate of Grace church.  During her brief residence
in Altoona she became endeared to the members of the congregation by
her lovable disposition and her activity in church work.  She was the
ideal pastor's wife and entered into her share of her husband's labors
with that spirit of devotion that won esteem and respect of the
congregations he had served as pastor.  She is survived by her husband
and also by her mother, Mrs. Ella Harris, and one brother, William
Harris, both of Shirleysburg.  The remains will be brought to the city
on train No. 15 which arrives at 2:56 o'clock this afternoon and taken
to the parsonage on Fourth street.  The funeral arrangements will be
announced later.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday, June 16, 1915, page 12

PATTON PEOPLE HERE
Friends of Late Mrs. Bessie Kauffman Motor to City Yesterday
Afternoon.

Three motor cars carrying member of the Patton Methodist Episcopal
church and friends of the late Mrs. Bessie Kauffman, wife of Rev. D.
D. Kauffman, pastor of the Grace Methodist Episcopal church here, and
formerly pastor of the Patton church, arrived in the city yesterday
afternoon.

More than a score of the deceased woman's friends composed the party
and they came here believing the remains would be brought to this
city.  People throughout the city who had learned to know Mrs.
Kauffman during her brief residence here, sent huge floral tributes
and bouquets to the parsonage yesterday.  An entire room was required
to receive the flowers.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, June 17, 1915, page 10

FUNERAL NOTICES.

At 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon the funeral of the late Mrs. Bessie
Kauffman, wife of the Rev. David D. Kauffman, pastor of the Grace
Methodist Episcopal church, this city, will occur at Mt. Union, where
interment will be made.  All members and friends of the congregation
desiring to attend the funeral are requested to meet at the local
Pennsy station and take the 11:35 train tomorrow morning, returning
home on fast line tomorrow afternoon.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, June 17, 1915, page 12