OBIT: George H. KISSELL, 1963, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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BELLWOOD SOLDIER AMONG VICTIMS IN ARMY PLANE CRASH

  Among the 129 American soldiers killed in the crash of an Army 
transport plane in Japan Thursday was Staff Sgt. George H. Kissell, 
Jr., Tyrone R.D. 2, whose father, George H. Kissell Sr., and a sister 
live on the back road between Tipton and Bellwood.
  Kissell was among the group of American soldiers returning to Korea  
from a rest period in Japan.  After serving three years in the U. S.  
Navy, Kissell enlisted in the Army, on December, 1950, and had been in 
Korea nearly a year. He graduated from Bellwood-Antis High school in 
1949. 
  Surviving are the father and these sisters and brother:  
  Mrs. D. O. Simmers, Altoona; Mrs. Harry Taylor, Heston, Huntingdon 
county; Mrs. Blair Estep, Bellwood; Miss Pauline Kissell, at home, and 
James C. Kissell, Tyrone R.D. 2. During the past four years the mother, 
a brother and a sister have died.
  Seven other Pennsylvania men were killed in the accident. The Defense 
Department identified them as: 
  Lt. Raymond J. Kirsnis, Pittsburgh; Staff Sgt. Thomas P. Kelley, of 
Stowe Township; Pfc. Thomas W. Brown, Charleroi; Maj. Paul E. Kennedy, 
Beaver; Airman 1-C Donald J. Anderson, Kane; Lt. Vernon W. Miller, 
Johnstown, and Airman 2-C Andrew Hollis, Jr., Brownsville.

Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., June 20, 1953, page 1