OBIT: Elmer MILLER, 1917, Juniata, Blair County, PA

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JUNIATA RESIDENT DROPS ON STREET
Elmer Miller, Conversing With a Friend, Falls and Expires

  Elmer Miller, lately an employe in the Juniata water and highways 
departments, fell dead on the street as he was nearing his home in the 
borough at 8.30 o'clock on Saturday evening.  The deceased had been in 
poor health of late and had not been able to work for some weeks.  Mr. 
Miller had been in Altoona to see a dentist on Saturday evening and had 
been overcome with the illness that caused his death on the way home.  
Going down Fourth avenue he was overtaken at Twelfth street by Water 
Superintendent J. C. Turner, also homeward bound, and the two men 
walked together until they neared Mr. Turner's residence at 1213 Fourth 
avenue.  Mr. Miller had been speaking of his poor health and stopped 
talking to lean against a telegraph pole in a paroxysm of coughing.  
When he seemed to be recovering himself Mr. Turner stepped close and 
taking the sick man by the arm, said: "Let me help you home."  Without 
a word Mr. Miller fell to the pavement in a crumpled heap.  Mr. Turner 
called to young men who were coasting from the hilltop on which he 
lives and the inert form of the stricken man was placed on a sled and 
taken to his own home in a little house at the rear of 1312 Fifth 
avenue.  Dr. R. J. Hillis was summoned and the physician stated that 
the man was dead - had been dead probably at the moment of his fall.
  The family have been in destitute circumstances for some time and has 
been receiving some assistance.  Neighbors who came to their relief on 
Saturday night and yesterday found the bereaved home in bad shape and 
the benumbed wife could give no accurate account of the family history 
of her husband.  He was born in April, 1862, and was twice married.  He 
is survived by six children - a son and a daughter located in Akron, 
O.; a son Leslie, aged 16, and three smaller children, at home.  Deputy 
Coroner Rothrock was notified and took a look into the circumstances of 
the death, deciding an inquest unnecessary.
  The remains were given in charge of Undertakers Roher & Mauk and no 
further funeral arrangements will be made until word is received from 
the son and the daughter in Akron.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday Morning, January 22, 1917

Funeral Notices.

  The funeral of Elmer Miller, late of 1312 Fifth avenue, Juniata, will 
take place from the Roher & Mauk funeral parlors this afternoon at 2 
o'clock, services to be conducted by Rev. Charles McCurdy, of Greenwood 
United Brethren church.  Interment in Greenwood cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday Morning, January 23, 1917