OBIT: W. Frank KYLE, 1920, native of Blair County, PA

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PROF. W. FRANK KYLE

  An instructor in the Pennsylvania Industrial reformatory at 
Huntingdon for more than a quarter of a century, died Friday afternoon 
at 1.45 o'clock, at the J. C. Blair Memorial hospital from an attack of 
pneumonia.  Mr. Kyle was born in Williamsburg 71 years ago, the son of 
Joseph and Mary Hoover Kyle, both deceased.  He was educated at the 
Williamsburg academy.  He entered the profession of teaching shortly 
after his graduation and followed this line of work all his life, 
becoming an instructor at the Huntingdon reformatory in 1892, a 
position he held until his death.  He was a veteran of the Civil war, 
having served with the Union armies as a member of Company B, 208th 
Pennsylvania infantry, and took part in many important engagements with 
that organization. He was a lifelong member of the Lutheran church and 
for many years was active in Sunday school work.  He was united in 
marriage on August 21, 1917, with Miss Theodosia Hewitt of 
Williamsburg, the ceremony being performed in Troy, N. Y. Mr. Kyle is 
survived by his wife, one brother, John M. Kyle of Duncansville, and 
two sisters, Mrs. George Wogan of Juniata and Mrs. Henry Detwiler of 
Fredericksburg.  The body was brought to his home in Williamsburg, from 
where the funeral services were conducted.  Interment in Williamsburg.

Martinsburg Herald, Hand-written date of January 23, 1920