OBIT: Jesse David PARK, 1918, formerly of Blair County, PA

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PARK

  The body of Jesse David Park, son of Mrs. Charles S. Keefer, of 304 
Crawford avenue, a private in the motorcycle division of the army at 
Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, O., died at 4 o'clock Christmas morning at 
the base hospital at camp following injuries sustained when the 
motorcycle he was riding crashed into a rapidly moving trolley car, 
arrived in this city yesterday and were taken in charge by Funeral 
Director N. A. Stevens.  The funeral services will be held at the home 
of the mother this afternoon at 3 o'clock followed by interment in Rose 
Hill cemetery.  Park, in company with a member of his unit in camp, 
secured leave from the superior officers on Christmas eve to visit in 
Chillicothe, the soldiers leaving by motorcycle.  They left the town at 
12 o'clock midnight to return to camp.  In turning a corner the 
motorcycle crashed into a trolley car.  Both riders were thrown from 
the machine, Park striking against the trolley.  He sustained a 
fracture of the skull, crush of the left side of the face and numerous 
body injuries, being rendered unconscious.  He was removed to the camp 
hospital, dying at 4 o'clock without regaining consciousness.  Jess 
David Park was born on Sept. 25, 1893, in Smiths Valley, Huntingdon 
county, the son of Charles Park (deceased) and Mrs. Ida Park (now 
Keefer) of this city and was employed as a restaurant man until three 
years ago when he left for Ohio, where he was employed until a year 
ago, the time he entered the army as a selected man.  He was a mechanic 
in the motorcycle division at the camp.  Surviving are the mother and 
step-father, two step-brothers, Leslie and Clare Keefer, of this city, 
three full brothers, Hobart, Herman and Eby, and two sisters, Mrs. Alda 
Reed and Mrs. Elizabeth Ferry, all of Altoona.  The remains, attired in 
the service uniform and draped in an American flag, were accompanied 
home by a soldier from the camp, the latter acquainting the family with 
the details of the death.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Saturday Morning, December 28, 1918