OBIT: Charles John ORBERG, 1948, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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CHARLES JOHN ORBERG

Of 1230 Eighteenth avenue, died at 4.30 o'clock this morning at Mercy hospital 
after two weeks' illness. He was born at Peale, Clearfield county, May 10, 1884, 
a son of Lars and Anna Orberg, and married Miss Esther M. Larson at 
Hollidaysburg Aug. 22, 1908. Mr. Orberg had been employed as a carman by the 
Pennsylvania railroad for more than 40 years, for a number of years as a gang 
foreman until his health interfered. He was a member of the First Lutheran 
church, Altoona lodge 147, Knights of Pythias, and Monitor lodge 231, S. F. and 
A. Surviving are his wife, two sons and one daughter. Robert E., and Henry E., 
and Mrs. Edith M. Kerns, all of the city; eight grandchildren and one sister, 
Mrs. Augusta Anderson of Jamestown, N. Y. Friends will be received at the Hickey 
funeral home after 7 o'clock Thursday evening.

Altoona Mirror, Wednesday, July 21, 1948, page 18

ORBERG - Funeral services for Charles John Orberg of 1230 Eighteenth avenue, 
will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Hickey funeral home in 
charge of Rev. Luke H. Rhoads. Interment in Rose Hill cemetery. Friends are 
being received at the Hickey funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening.

Altoona Mirror, Thursday, July 22, 1948, page 33