OBIT: Ida M. (RITCHEY) RITCHEY, 1924, Newry, Blair County, PA

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MRS. IDA M. RITCHEY,

Wife of George C. Ritchey, died at the home of her father Jacob 
Ritchey, in Newry, Wednesday night at 11.26 o'clock, death being due to 
colitis. She was born in Wayne county, O., Sept. 3, 1867, the daughter 
of Jacob and Mrs. Elizabeth Ritchey, the latter now deceased. She had 
been a resident of Duncansville and Newry for the past twenty-five 
years and resided with her father in Newry for the past six years. She 
is survived by her husband and father and three children, Horace H., 
Altoona, Mrs. Eva Gibbony of Duncansville, and Miss Wyoma, of Newry, 
and one brother, Albert S. Ritchey of Duncansville and three sisters, 
Mrs. G. A. Swineford, Ashland, O., Mrs. F. S. Diehl, Hollidaysburg, and 
Mrs. Frank Stambaugh, Blue Knob, and two grandchildren. She was a 
member of the Hicks Memorial Methodist church in Duncansville and the 
funeral services will be conducted at the Ritchey home in Newry 
Saturday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, in charge of Rev. F. W. Biddle. 
Interment will be made in the Newry Lutheran cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, November 6, 1924