OBIT: Handford POWELL, 1899, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _______________________________________________ HANDFORD POWELL. Handford Powell, an aged resident of the Third ward, died at the residence of his son-in-law, P. W. Becker, 1206 Eighteenth avenue, Monday of a congestive chill. The deceased was born in Perry county, 69 years ago. He had been employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad company as a painter. Altoona Tribune, Thursday, February 9, 1899