OBIT: Mary (SHAW) RITCHEY, 1965, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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ILLNESS FATAL

MRS. MARY (SHAW) RITCHEY [photo]
Aged Resident, Retired Teacher Called by Death

Mrs. Mary (Shaw) Ritchey, 84, wife of William B. Ritchey of 105 E. 26th 
Ave., died at her home at 9.30 p.m. yesterday after an extended 
illness. She retired as a school teacher in 1951 after 52 years of 
service and as Newry correspondent of the Altoona Mirror in 1953 after 
36 years.
  She was born at Puzzletown on Dec. 28, 1881, a daughter of Amos and 
Alice (Baker) Shaw, and on June 24, 1954, married Mr. Ritchey in the 
Newry Lutheran Church.
  Surviving are her husband, eight step-children, Elwood, Raymond and 
Clyde of Altoona, Mrs. Catherine Shew of Buffalo, N.Y., Dean of 
Milwaukee, Wis., Mrs. Dorothy Askey of Poland, Ohio, Donald of Maywood, 
N.J., and Mrs. Betty Austin of Phoenix, Ariz.
  Also surviving are 11 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, a 
sister and three brothers, Mrs. Sara Long of Baltimore, Richard J. of 
Pittsburgh, Fred of Leamersville and Charles of Newry.
  She was a member of the Newry Lutheran Church and had taught in the 
Newry, Puzzletown and Northfield, Hollidaysburg, schools.
  Friends will be received in the Liebegott Funeral Home, Duncansville, 
from 3 to 10 p.m. tomorrow.

Altoona Mirror, Tuesday, 3 August 1965, p. 13, col. 6