OBIT: Mary (McCURDY) PLUMMER, 1925, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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MRS. MARY McCURDY PLUMMER,

Wife of Jacob P. Plummer, one of Tyrone's best known women, died at her 
home at 1500 Columbia avenue, this morning at 3.40 o'clock. Mrs. 
Plummer had been in ill health since last June but on Friday suffered a 
stroke of paralysis which was the cause of death. She was born in 
Lewistown, Nov. 8, 1855, the daughter of Robert J. and Mrs. Sarah 
Spalding McCurdy and was united in marriage with Mr. Plummer, Nov. 17, 
1880, and was a resident of Tyrone for the past forty years. She is 
survived by her husband and one son, Ralph L. Plummer of Tyrone, and 
two daughters, Mrs. James Burrows of Lansing, Mich., and Helen R. 
Plummer, a nurse in New York city. She is also survived by one brother, 
William F. McCurdy of New York city. She was a member of the Columbia 
Avenue Methodist church and of the various societies of the church and 
was a devoted mother and fine Christian woman. Funeral services will be 
conducted at the home Tuesday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock by her pastor, 
Rev. Gordon A. Williams. Interment will be made in Greenlawn cemetery. 

Altoona Mirror, Saturday, 24 January 1925