OBIT: Lucy J. (DELLINGER) KNIPPLE, 1915, Blair County, PA

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Lucy J. Knipple Dies Suddenly

Mrs. Lucy J. Knipple, the well known and highly esteemed mother of the
Knipple brothers, Frederick and Leslie, of this place, became suddenly
ill on Wednesday at 2 p.m. while sitting on her front porch waiting on
a neighbor to go with her to a cottage prayer meeting.  A physician
was called and the trouble was found to be neuralgia of the heart.
After giving her treatment he ordered her to be put to bed.  She
seemed to regain strength and told her granddaughters, the Misses
Heuston, who made their home with her and her sons, that she would be
better by morning.  She was waited upon during the night by Mrs.
Lawrence Kauffman and seemed to be resting well at 4 o'clock yesterday
morning when last seen alive, but was found dead at 5:30 when Mrs.
Kauffman again called at her bedside.  The reposeful position in which
she lay, showed that she had passed peacefully into the spirit world.

Her sons, Abram, of Akron, O., and Edward, of Altoona, were to see her
just recently, and, notwithstanding that she seemed in usual health
and was regularly attending the revival meetings then in progress, she
told them that she would not long be with them, and that she would
never again see Abram.

She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dellinger and was born at
Wilmore, February 17, 1848, where she grew to womanhood and on August
31, 1865, was married to George W. Knipple, of that place, and four
years later they moved to Queen, Bedford county, where Mr. Knipple
died September 10, 1890.  To them were born five daughters and seven
sons.  The five daughters and one son are dead, as are all of her
parents, brothers and sisters.  The six surviving sons are:  Jacob E.,
of Queen; D. Charles, of Sharon; Abram H., of Akron; Edward, of
Altoona, and Frederick and Leslie O., of Roaring Spring.

In 1891, she and her surviving children, except Jacob, moved to this
place, where she has since resided.  She was an honest hard-working
woman, and spared no effort to give her children a good home and an
education.  She was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal
church since her girlhood and was esteemed by all who knew her for her
noble Christian character, her devotion as a mother and generosity as
a friend and neighbor.  Her funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon,
leaving her late home at 1.30 o'clock for the Methodist Episcopal
church where services will be conducted by her pastor, Rev. E. L.
Eslinger, assisted by her former pastor, Rev. W. Fletcher Biddle, now
of Altoona, and Rev. J. A. Detter, pastor of the Church of God.
Interment will be made in Greenlawn cemetery.  She will be greatly
missed by her many friends and relatives, to all of whom we extend our
sincere sympathy in their sad bereavement.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Friday, May 28, 1915, page 4

ROARING SPRING.

Funeral of Mrs. Knipple.

The funeral of Mrs. Lucy Jane Knipple was largely attended here, on
Saturday afternoon last.  The large audience room of the Methodist
Episcopal church was crowded with relatives and friends who thus paid
a last tribute of respect to her memory, their esteem was also evident
in the numerous bouquets of choice flowers they presented; those of
her sons and her Sunday school class being especially beautiful.

The services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. E. L. Eslinger, who
preached an able sermon.  Rev. J. A. Detter assisted in the services,
and read the Scripture.  Her former pastor, Rev. W. Fletcher Biddle,
now of Fifth Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Altoona, also assisted
and paid a high tribute of respect to her as a noble, kind and devoted
mother, and a consecrated Christian, who always was found faithful to
every religious duty and never ashamed to own her Savior.  She was
always deeply interested in the church and Sunday school at Queen, her
former home, and very frequently gathered Sunday school papers and
song books from her own Sunday school here for that one.  The esteem
in which she was there held was evident from the number of her Queen
friends who attended her funeral.  Her life was a daily example of
true religion, and a common expression on our streets, when her death
was announced, was, "Well, she was a good woman.  If ever any one was
ready to die she was."  Her life was a blessing; her death a triumph.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday, June 1, 1915, page 4