OBIT: John W. RUSSELL, 1948, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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YARD ENGINEER IS VICTIM OF HEART ATTACK

  John W. Russell, aged 52, of 2207 Fourth street, an engineer in the Altoona 
yard, Pennsylvania railroad, died unexpectedly of a heart attack at his home 
at 11.30 o'clock last night.  He had been in apparent good health, working 
Sunday and returning to his home at 7 o'clock yesterday morning.
  He was born Nov. 1, 1895, in Shirleysburg, a son of William J. and Katie 
(Dodson) Russell, and married Miss Anna Faughnan.
  Surviving are his wife, two sons and one daughter, Eugene C., a student at 
the Philadelphia Museum of Art, John F., of Burlington, N.C., and Virginia, 
at the home; his mother, in Shirleysburg, and one sister, Mrs. C. J. Hickey 
of Burlington, N.C.
  Mr. Russell was a member of the Fairview Methodist church the Eagles, the 
Disabled Veterans, having been a veteran of World war I, and of the 
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fireman and Engineers.
  Friends will be received at the Hickey funeral home after 7 o'clock this 
evening.

Altoona Mirror, Tuesday evening, July 20, 1948, page 22

RUSSELL - Military funeral services for John W. Russell of 2207 Fourth 
street, will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock in charge of Rev. Roy O. 
Bodtorf, pastor of the Fairview Methodist church.  Interment in Grandview 
cemetery.  Friends are being received at the Hickey funeral home.

Altoona Mirror, Wednesday evening, July 21, 1948, page 15