OBIT: Anthony SEIDEL, 1919, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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ANTHONY SEIDEL

  Anthony Seidel, for forty-seven years an employee of the P.R.R. as a machine 
shop hand, died at his home, 502 Second avenue, yesterday morning after a short 
illness, suffering from pneumonia.  He was a native of Austria and was born on 
May 14, 1854.  He came at an early age to this city with his parents.  Two 
sons, George and Raphael, are serving in the American forces in France.  He was 
married on May 23, 1882, to Miss Anna D. Hughes, who survives with the 
following children, besides the two mentioned above: Miss Josephine A., Miss 
Elizabeth I., and Miss Mary C., of home, and a sister Mrs. Anna Resig, and 
three brothers, Joseph, John and Charles, of this city.  He was a member of St. 
Mary's German Catholic church.  A son, Frank, died last Thursday from 
pneumonia.  The funeral will take place Monday morning at 9 o'clock with 
requiem high mass at the church.  Interment will be made in St. Mary's 
cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Saturday, February 8, 1919, page 10