OBIT: Robert S. McCURDY, 1924, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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ROBERT S. McCURDY,

Of 2425 Fourth avenue, died at 10 o'clock last night at his home of a 
complication of diseases following a lengthy illness. Deceased was a 
son of William and Mary McCurdy and was born in Altoona, Aug. 31, 1875. 
Twenty-nine years ago he was united in marriage to Miss Anna Harker, 
who survives, with two sons and one daughter: W. K., R. L., and Mrs. C. 
D. Brown, all of Altoona; one grandchild is living. Two brothers and 
three sisters also survive: Charles of Altoona, Edward of 
Mechanicsburg, Mrs. C. C. English and Mrs. Edna Hider of Altoona, Mrs. 
Frank Lauder of Tyrone. Mr. McCurdy was a member of the Presbyterian 
church, of camp 54 of the P.O.S. of A., of the Brotherhood of Railroad 
Trainmen, of the P.R.R. Veteran Employes' association and of the Floral 
association. Funeral services will be held at the home Saturday 
afternoon at 2:30.

Altoona Mirror, Wednesday, 5 November 1924

CARDS OF THANKS.

We wish to thank our neighbors, friends and lodges for their kindness 
and sympathy during the illness and death of my husband and our father, 
Robert S. McCurdy, also the P.R.R. station employes for their beautiful 
floral tributes and for those who generously furnished automobiles.

MRS. ANNA C. McCURDY AND FAMILY.

Altoona Mirror, Wednesday, 12 November 1924