OBITS: LUPFER Family, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by June Weston Copyright July 2003. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ LUPFER, Charles Albert, 1973 LUPFER, Harold R., 1978 LUPFER, Joseph Elmer, 1937 _________________________________________ CHARLES ALBERT LUPFER Retired PRR Employe Dies Charles Albert Lupfer, 80, of 3022 Walnut Ave., who retired in February 1957 as a PRR machinist in the South Altoona shops after 47 years of service, died at 3:45 p.m. yesterday, March 26, 1973, in Mercy Hospital, where he was admitted earlier in the day, after an extended illness. He was born Feb. 1, 1893, in Milton, a son of Elmer and Elizabeth (Moll) Lupfer, and was married to Ethel Brubaker Dec. 3, 1913, in St. Paul Lutheran Church by the Rev. George F. Snyder. Surviving are his wife, five children, Mrs. Beatrice Whitsel, Mrs. Jean Hamilton, Mrs. Mary Louise Kinser, and Mrs. Betty Isenberg of Altoona and Charles E. of Canton, Ohio; 13 grandchildren, 13 great- grandchildren and a brother, Harold R. of Altoona. Mr. Lupfer was a member of St. Paul Church and a charter member of the YMCA Model Railroad Club. Friends will be received in the Replogle Funeral Home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow. Altoona Mirror, March 27, 1973 _________________________________________ HAROLD R. LUPFER Of 5306 Montrose Ave., died unexpectedly at 7:15 a.m. Thursday, March 30, 1978, in the Chambersburg Hospital. Mr. Lupfer retired as a machinist from the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1966. He was born May 9, 1904, in Altoona, a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Moll) Lupfer, and on June 19, 1947, in Altoona, married Mary E. Goshorn. Surviving is his wife. Mr. Lupfer was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church. He was also a member of Hiram Lodge, F&AM, and the Harrisburg Scottish Rite bodies. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday in the William G. Bigelow Funeral Home. Altoona Mirror, March 31, 1978 _________________________________________ JOSEPH ELMER LUPFER Of 5306 Montrose avenue, a retired employe of the Altoona works, died at 10.40 o'clock Friday night at his home after an extended illness. He was born in Perry County on July 11, 1868, and was married in 1891 to Miss Elizabeth Moll of Dewart. Mr. Lupfer had resided in Altoona since 1902 and entered the service of the company on Sept. 8, 1902, as a shophand. He retired as a machinist in September, 1934. Mr. Lupfer was a member of the First Lutheran Church, the Henry Baker Bible class of the church school; Mountain Lodge, No. 281, Free and Accepted Masons; Jaffa Shrine and Harrisburg consistory, Logan Lodge, No. 1059, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Miscellaneous Shop Floral association. Surviving are his wife, and two sons, Charles Albert of this city and Harold, and a sister, Miss Anne Lupfer, at the home, and another sister, Mrs. Mina Watts of Washington, D.C. Funeral services were conducted yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Gilden funeral home in charge of his pastor, Rev. Luke H. Rhoads. Interment was made this afternoon at the Watsontown cemetery, Northumberland county. Altoona Mirror, January 30, 1937