OBIT: Susan Fidella (COCHRAN) KURTZ, 1900, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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TYRONE TOPICS.

  Mrs. Susan Fidella Kurtz, wife of John H. Kurtz, after intense 
suffering afflicted with cancer for a period of four years, the past 
five weeks being confined to her bed, died at the family home, 640 Park 
avenue, yesterday morning at 10 o'clock.  The deceased's maiden name 
was Susan Fidella Cochran.  She was born at Honeybrooke, Chester 
county, 64 years ago.  On the 4th day of March, 1866, she was married 
to John H. Kurtz, at McVeytown, Mifflin county, and has resided in 
Tyrone since the fall of 1870.  She is survived by her husband, three 
daughters and one son - Elizabeth, John, Annie and Emma Kurtz, all at 
home.  Two brothers and one sister also survive her - Joseph Cochran, 
of White Water, Kan.; John Cochran, of Eureka Springs, Ark.; and Sarah 
Elizabeth Cochran, of Tyrone.  Funeral services will be held at her 
late home, 640 Park avenue, to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, to be 
conducted by Rev. Frank Howes, interment to follow in Tyrone cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Wednesday, January 31, 1900