OBIT: Blaine E. MILLS, 1954, Northwood, Blair County, PA

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POLICE PROBE DROWNING OF NORTHWOOD MAN

  State Police at Rockview barracks are continuing an investigation of 
the drowning of a Northwood man at Upper Bald Eagle while Centre county 
Coroner John H. Weber, Milesburg, placed the cause of death officially 
as asphyxia, the result of fluids and mucus causing stoppage of air in 
the bronchial tubes.
  Police identified the body found in Big Fill run at 8 a.m. Saturday 
as that of Blaine E. Mills, 48.
  The body was found in the stream 12 feet from the nearest bank, face 
upward, and about 75 feet to the rear of Mountain View Inn, located 
along Route 350 between Bald Eagle and Philipsburg.
  The body was discovered by Richard N. Hunter, a resident of the area, 
who was placing fence posts near the stream when, he spotted it.  He 
notified State police.  The body was located about 20 feet upstream 
from a footbridge crossing the stream.
  J. L. Heath, owner of the Inn, said that Mills had left the Inn at 
about 9:30 p.m. Friday after Heath, who was tending bar, refused to 
serve the victim. 
  Blaine Edward Mills was born at Northwood, Feb. 5, 1907, the son of 
Harry E. and Daisy M. Reed Mills.
  Surviving are the parents and two daughters, Mrs. Carl Giglia and 
Mrs. Daniel Gainey, Buffalo N.Y.; these brothers and sisters: Mrs. Carl 
Bulick, Mrs. Mildred Kooken, Mrs. William Caber and Ralph Mills, 
Buffalo, N.Y.; Mrs William Cowher, Mrs. Paul Shellenberger, Tyrone, and 
Mrs. Melvin McMonagal, Port Matilda. 
  He was of the Brethren faith, and had been employed by Gamble and 
Gamble, Bolivar, general contractor for the Logan elementary school 
building. 
  Funeral service will be held at the home at Northwood tomorrow 
afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock, in charge of the Rev. Budd R. Smith.  
Burial will be in Grandview cemetery.  Friends are being received at 
the home.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., Monday, March 29, 1954