OBIT: Charles R. MASON, 1918, of interest in Blair County, PA

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MASON.

  Mrs. Jacob Lusch, wife of the proprietor of the Crystal hotel on 
Green avenue, has returned from Brooklyn, where she attended the 
funeral of her nephew, Charles R. Mason, aged 23, of that place, who 
was killed on board ship, when the ship on which he was journeying to 
France was struck by a torpedo on Oct. 3.  Mason enlisted in June, 
immediately following the death of his mother and was on his way to 
France as a dispatch rider.  He sailed from an Atlantic port on Sept. 
22.  He is survived by one brother, Coburn Mason, in the service of the 
United States army.  The following relatives also survive and they were 
at the funeral: his grandfather, C. L. Arnold, of Brooklyn and the 
following aunts and uncles: Mrs. Jacob Lusch of this city, Mrs. Jennie 
Lauterborn of New York city, John Arnold and C. L. Arnold of Harnell, 
N.Y., Mrs. W. C. Webster and Louis Arnold of Youngstown, O.  The young 
man was given a full military funeral.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Saturday Morning, November 16, 1918