OBIT: Robert H. KRAFT, 1918, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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KRAFT

  Robert H. Kroft, a well known employe of Tyrone division P.R.R. died 
at the home of his sister, Mrs. Arthur S. Hull of Fourteenth street 
yesterday morning at 7:30 o'clock from Spanish influenza.  He was a son 
of William Kroft, a former Tyrone Division engineer.  Young Kroft had 
been in the telephone and telegraph department and had been working on 
the Osceola branch where he contracted a heavy cold.  He was a member 
of the Osceola Mills lodge Junior Order United American Mechanics and 
the Brotherhood of Electrical workers.  He is survived by his father 
and one sister, Mrs. Hull, at whose home he passed away.  Private 
funeral services will be held from the Hull home on Fourteenth street 
by Rev. A. S. Fasick.  Interment will be made in Grand View cemetery.

Altoona Times, Wednesday Morning, October 9, 1918

Blair County Genealogical Society, Grandview Cemetery of Tyrone -
Kraft, Robert H., i. 9/15/1918 [sic]

1910 Tyrone Ward 5, Blair County census -
William Kraft, 50  
Beatrice Kraft, 49  
John Kraft, 17  
Robert Kraft, 12