OBIT: Isaac B. McNEAL, 1933, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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FUNERAL OF ISAAC B. MCNEAL TUESDAY MORNING 
 
  The funeral of the late Isaac B.  McNeal, who died suddenly in the 
East Altoona engine house on Saturday morning at 11:25, and whose death 
announcement was made in Saturday's issue of the Herald, will be held 
on Tuesday morning at 10:30 o'clock.  The services will be conducted at 
the home, 612 West Thirteenth street, by Rev. Dr. Joseph A. Speer, 
pastor of the First Presbyterian church.  Interment will be made in 
Grandview cemetery.  
  Isaac Brintsley McNeal was born in Todd Township, Huntingdon county, 
January 8, 1871, the son of Martin S. and Dianna Baker McNeal.  On 
April 20, 1890, at Cassville, Huntingdon county, he was united in 
marriage with Bertha Jane Griffith, who, with these sons and daughters, 
survive the passing of a loving husband and father:  Martin A. McNeal, 
Myrtle, wife of Lee E. Adams, Tyrone; Dorothy, wife of Jerry 
Kustaborder, Lewistown; Mary, wife of Harvey Walters, Pottstown; Isaac, 
Jr. and Royer C, at home.  He is also survived by six grandchildren, 
his aged father-in-law, D. A. Griffith, and these brothers and sisters: 
W. A. McNeal and Mrs. Wilson McClain, Johnstown; E. W. McNeal, 
Shanksville, Pennsylvania; and Leslie McNeal of Tyrone.  Two sons 
preceded Mr. McNeal in death, Bernard LeRoy and Orris L.  The latter 
was killed in the World War.  
  Mr. McNeal was a member of The Church of God in Trough Creek  Valley.  
He was also a member of Tyrone lodge No. 494, Free and Accepted Masons, 
Good Will Council No. 42, Junior Order United American Mechanics, and 
The Grand Fraternity.  
  Mr. McNeal was a cabinet maker by trade, in fact, he possessed a 
master mind along mechanical lines and for the past forty-three years, 
had been associated with the Pennsylvania Railroad company.  When the 
Tyrone division was in operation, Mr. McNeal was listed here as a 
locomotive carpenter, having in charge all the cabinet work that was 
attached to cabins of locomotives and the finer work in passenger cars.  
Much of the skilled workmanship in the Y.M.C.A.  building was in charge 
of Mr. McNeal.  After the Tyrone division was merged with the Middle 
division, Mr. McNeal was transferred to the Altoona Shops, where again 
he displayed his splendid workmanship.  He was busy as usual Saturday 
morning in the East Altoona engine house and did not complain in the 
least to any of his associates of not feeling well.  He had eaten his 
dinner at eleven o'clock and was in the act of resuming his work when 
he fell to the floor, and before his fellow-workmen could do anything 
for him, his life slipped away. 
  Mr. McNeal was always a busy man.  When not at work in the shops, he 
spent much of his time on his farm on the hills near the German 
settlement, where he raised wonderful cantaloupes, peaches, and an 
abundance of other fruit and vegetables.  His going away will not only 
be keenly felt in the home, but among his many associates in the shop 
and his circle of friends in Tyrone and vicinity.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., January 1, 1934