OBIT: Harry Edward KELLY, 1919, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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SERGEANT H. E. KELLY SUCCUMBS AT CAMP
Altoona Soldier Dies of Injuries Received in Accident Last October

  Harry Edward Kelly, a sergeant in the aviation corps at Mineola 
Field, Long Island, N.Y., died at the camp base hospital at 6:30 
o'clock Saturday morning as the result of injuries suffered in October, 
when he fell twenty feet off of a scaffolding.  A telegram announcing 
his death was received by his wife at noon Saturday.  
  He enlisted in the service in November, 1917, as a motor mechanic in 
the aviation service, and trained at Rockford, Ill., Florida and later 
at Mineola.  He was formerly employed as a chauffeur for W. W. Blake, 
the tobacconist, being in the employ of the latter for a period of ten 
years.
  He was aged 26, and was married to Miss Frieda Byrne, of this city, 
who survives with one son, Melvin, aged 7, and a brother, Bert, of this 
city, and three sisters, Mrs. Pearl Rice, Mrs. Raymond Gearhart and 
Mrs. Rhoda Lingenfelter, of this city. 
  The remains arrived in this city yesterday morning at 4:30 o'clock, 
and were taken to the home of the wife, 406 Fifth avenue.  Funeral 
services will take place tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock, with a high 
mass of requiem at St. Mark's Catholic church.  Interment will be made 
in Calvary cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Monday, January 27, 1919, page 3