OBIT: Charles Z. POTE, 1940, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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CHARLES Z. POTE

Of 852 Twenty-fifth street, manager of the Keystone Coal & Coke company and 
an active member of the Ward Avenue Presbyterian church, died at his home at 
4.45 o'clock yesterday morning after several weeks' illness. He was born at 
Baker Summit on Feb. 2, 1864, a son of Adam and Nancy (Zook) Pote. Mr. Pote 
was twice married, his first wife, Miss Etta Wertz of Bedford, dying in 1900. 
On May 14, 1924, he married Mrs. Clara Gabriel Swartz, who survives, along 
with one brother and one sister, Adam of Baker Summit and Mrs. Catherine 
Cowen of Roaring Spring, and a number of nieces and nephews in Baker Summit 
and Roaring Spring. Mr. Pote had been a member of the Ward Avenue 
Presbyterian church for the past twenty-seven years and at the time of his 
death was an elder, also having served as a deacon, treasurer, a teacher in 
the Sunday school and a member of the choir. In his early life he was engaged 
in the mercantile business in Baker Summit, later going to Washington where 
he was employed in the bureau of engraving. For the past twenty-eight years 
he had been manager of the Keystone company. Friends are being received at 
the Laughlin funeral home.

POTE - The Funeral cortege of Charles Z. Pote of 852 Twenty-fifth street will 
leave the Laughlin funeral home at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon for the 
Holsinger Brethren church at Baker Summit where funeral services will be 
conducted by Rev. A.W. Wright, of the Ward Avenue Presbyterian church. 
Interment in the Holsinger cemetery. Friends are being received at the 
Laughlin funeral home.

Blair County Genealogical Society, Archie Claar Collection of Obituaries, 
1940 volume, hand-dated 7/4
[Altoona Mirror, July 5, 1940]