OBIT: Frank J. McGOVERN, 1890, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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TYRONE TOPICS.

  Within the past year or more it has been our painful duty as a 
chronicler of passing events to record the departure to the other shore 
of many of our warm and intimate friends, some in advanced age, some in 
middle life and others verging into manhood.  It is with feelings of 
regret that we are compelled to say that our friend, Frank Joseph 
McGovern to this world is no more.  After an illness (grasped by that 
fell destroyer consumption) of some months' duration he died at his 
home on Glen Hope avenue, about 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, 
surrounded by his parents, brothers and sisters, and fully conscious to 
the last.  The subject of this notice was a son of James and Mary 
McGovern, both of whom survive him, and was born in the Baughman 
settlement, Snyder township, north of this borough, October 17, 1861, 
and at death was on the verge of his 29th year.  April 26, 1887, he was 
married to Miss Mary Smith, of Altoona, at the home of his wife, by 
Rev. Father O'Reilly.  To this union three children have been born two 
of whom have preceded the father to the other shore.  The widowed wife 
and a 2-months-old daughter survive.  Beside the aged mother and father 
and wife and child he leaves to mourn their loss, brothers Thomas, 
Patrick, and Peter, of this place, and John, of Carrolltown, Cambria 
county and sister Annie, who makes her home with the parents.  The 
deceased for many years has been engaged in railroad contract work and 
at the time of death had a large force of workmen engaged in grading 
the new addition to the Tyrone yard between Vail Station and East 
Tyrone.  In politics a democrat, in religion a Catholic, he was 
consistent in what he believed to be right.  For two years he served as 
councilman, from the Fourth ward; an evidence of his poularity [sic] is 
the fact that it has been for many years a republican district.  About 
a month or so ago on a very bright Sunday afternoon it was the pleasure 
of the writer to converse with the deceased on the front porch of his 
residence.  He was then buoyant and full of hope, and his appearance 
did not belie his anticipations.  "But the best laid plans of mice and 
men gang aft aglee."  He was born, reared and died in the Catholic 
faith.  The remains will be taken to the Catholic chapel on Cameron 
street Saturday morning at 9 o'clock where requiem mass will be 
conducted by Rev. Father Kittell, after which interment will be made 
beside the two dear little ones who have gone before in the Catholic 
cemetery on Oak avenue.  In conclusion we can only say our town has 
lost one of its most active and progressive citizens, his family a 
vacany in the chair which can never be filled, and his immediate 
friends outside of his family connections one who recognized them in 
all conditions, in prosperity or adversity, and was never too proud to 
weep.

Morning Tribune, Friday, October 17, 1890