OBIT: Barbara (LONGENECKER) HARRIS KURTZ, 1918, Roaring Spring, Blair County, PA

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ROARING SPRING ITEMS
AGED RESIDENT PASSES

  Mrs. Barbara Kurts [sic], an aged and well known Roaring Spring 
woman, widow of Samuel Kurtz, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. 
Carrie Kurtz, at 12.40 o'clock Sunday afternoon after an illness 
of six months.  She suffered from a complication of diseases, 
superinduced by old age.  She was born on Nov. 1, 1840, at Woodbury, 
and was daughter of John B. and Barbara Longenecker.  She resided at 
home until her marriage in 1871.  She was twice married and although 77 
years old she lived with each of her husbands but three years, death 
claiming both.  In 1871 she became the wife of Samuel O. Harris of 
Huntingdon county.  They began housekeeping on a farm near Martinsburg 
and lived happily until his death three years later.  Three children 
were born to this union and but one, Mrs. Thad Querry, survives here.  
After the death of her husband with her child she returned to the home 
of her parents and ten years later married Samuel Kurtz, of Roaring 
Spring.  A son, Irvin, of Roaring Spring, was born and three years 
after the marriage Mr. Kurtz died.  Following his death she resided at 
Roaring Spring on the Kurtz property until some years ago when she went 
to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Querry.  Besides the son and daughter 
mentioned she is survived by one sister, Mrs. Carrie Baird, of Portage, 
and the following brothers, John of Gettysburg, Phillip of 
Harrisonville, Mo., and Jacob of New Enterprise.  Also eight 
grandchildren.  She was a great church worker and has been affiliated 
with the Church of God ever since she came to Roaring Spring.  She was 
a member of the Ladies' Aid society and also attended Sunday school 
when able.  The funeral will be held on Wednesday afternoon at 2 
o'clock.  Services in the Bethel church, in charge of the pastor, Rev. 
J. A. Detter.  Interment will following in Greenlawn cemetery.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday Morning, April 30, 1918

ROARING SPRING ITEMS

  The funeral of Mrs. Barbara Kurtz will be held this afternoon at 2 
o'clock in the Bethel church.  Rev. Detter will officiate and interment 
will be made in Greenlawn cemetery.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday Morning, May 1, 1918