OBIT: Emma B. (PORTA) SEIDEL, 1916, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ MRS. EMMA B. SEIDEL Mrs. Emma B. Seidel, wife of Leonard M. Seidel, of this city, died at 3:40 o'clock yesterday morning at the home of her mother, Mrs. Louisa Porta, of 2027 West Chestnut avenue, of a complication of diseases. She was born in this city on January 13, 1882, and is survived by her husband and two children, Louis and Alma; her mother and these brothers and sisters: William Porta and Mrs. Joseph Hess, both of Pittsburg; John and Paul Porta, Mrs. Mary Fockler, Mrs. James Ronan, and Mrs. F. J. Keller, all of this city. Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at St. Mary's German Catholic church, of which she was a member, at 9 o'clock. The cortege will leave the home at 8:30. Burial will be made at St. Mary's cemetery. Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday Morning, December 11, 1916