OBIT: Louis W. RAISON, 1917, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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DR. L. W. RAISON

  Dr. Louis W. Raison, one of the city's physicians, died at his home, 
612 East Crawford avenue, yesterday morning at 1:50 o'clock from 
croupous pneumonia after an illness of but a few days.  He had not been 
in good health for the past year or more.  Fourteen months ago he was 
stricken with paralysis which affected his speech.  Some time later he 
sustained another stroke and while he was deprived of speech he was 
still able to be about and attended to some of his practice.  Friday 
night he was taken ill and on Monday was forced to take his bed.  
Pneumonia developed a day or two ago and his condition gradually became 
more serious, death ensuing at an early hour above stated.
  Dr. Raison was a native of Kentucky, and was born at Ashland May 9, 
1853.  His parents were a prominent southern family, his father for 
some years being judge of the county courts.  A brother, a prominent 
attorney of Ashland for years, died three years ago.  Dr. Raison was 
schooled in Kentucky and Ohio.  For many years the physician was 
railroad physician for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad company at 
Foxburg.  He has been a resident of Altoona for the past fifteen or 
sixteen years.  The physician was twice married, his first wife being 
Miss Josephine Carr, who died five years ago.  Four sons and a daughter 
born to the union, survive.  They are, Charles, of Denver; Roy, of 
Alma, Mich.; Carr, of Altoona, and Albert, of Pittsburg.  A sister, 
Mrs. Eva Hartzell, lives in Ohio.  The second wife was Miss Clarice H. 
Thompson, of Altoona.  She with two small children, Clarice A. and 
Aeola S., also survive.  Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon 
at 2:20 o'clock in charge of Rev. H. Miller Herr, of the Christian 
Alliance church.  Interment will follow in Rose Hill cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday Morning, January 6, 1917