OBIT: Amos NEWCOMER, 1919, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _______________________________________________ AMOS NEWCOMER. Amos Newcomer died at 4.30 o'clock yesterday morning at the Altoona hospital of pneumonia. He was born in Lloy[d]sville, Pa., 67 years ago, and was employed as telegraph operator for the P.R.R. for over forty years. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Margaret Wyerman, of this city, with whom he made his home. Mrs. Wyerman and her husband are both at present confined to their homes with the pneumonia. One brother, W. Scott Newcomer, a prominent funeral director of Pittsburg, and also secretary of the Pennsylvania Association of Funeral Directors, and one sister, Miss Clara Newcomer, of Pittsburg, also survive. He was a member of the First M. E. church and the Telegraphers Union. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock with services in the Stevens chapel, followed by private interment in Rose Hill cemetery. The remains may be viewed at any time at the Stevens mortuary, room 5. Altoona Tribune, Monday, January 6, 1919, page 5