OBIT: Samuel Ellsworth OTTO, 1940, Tipton, Blair County, PA

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SAMUEL ELLSWORTH OTTO

A well known resident of near Tipton and a retired Pennsylvania Railroad 
company employe, died at 9.20 o'clock this morning of a heart attack. He had 
been in his usual health during the winter and expired a few minutes after 
being stricken. Mr. Otto was a son of Samuel and Frances Anna (Kuhn) Otto 
and was born at Duncansville on Feb. 7, 1870. He retired from the 
Pennsylvania railroad service in the spring of 1937 after following the job 
of trackman for a period of forty years. He is survived by one brother, 
David Otto of Tyrone, and three sisters, Mrs. Lilly Reigh of Ganister, Mrs. 
J.W. Fogle of Altoona and Miss Dora Otto, at home. He was of the Methodist 
faith. Friends will be received at the home after 9 o'clock tomorrow 
morning.

hand-dated 2/26

OTTO - Funeral services for Samuel Ellsworth Otto of Tipton will be 
conducted on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home. Interment will 
follow in Carson Valley cemetery. Friends are being received at the home.

hand-dated 2/29

Blair County Genealogical Society, Archie Claar Obituary Collection, vol. 
18, p. 133, 1940 volume

[Altoona Mirror, February 26, 1940]