OBIT: Chalmer C. SELL, 1972, Roaring Spring, Blair County, PA

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CHALMER C. SELL, 

Of 714 Rockingham Ave., Roaring Spring, died in his home at 12:15 p.m. 
Friday, July 28, 1972, after an extended illness. He was born Feb. 14, 
1900, in Roaring Spring, son of Stephen and Ella (Metzker) Sell, and 
married Mary Etta Houck on June 15, 1928. Surviving are his wife, two 
children, Thomas C. of Las Vegas, Nev., and Mrs. Donna Whitman of 
Philipsburg; six grandchildren, three sisters and two brothers, Mrs. 
Elsie Replogle and Emory of Roaring Spring, Mrs. Ella Purcell of 
Altoona, Mrs. Genevieve Herbert of Norfolk, Va., and Irvin of 
Leamersville. Mr. Sell was graduated from Roaring Spring High School 
and Shippensburg State Teachers College (1923). For 34 years he was a 
traveling representative for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, retiring in 
1960. He was a member of the First Church of the Brethren and Woodbury 
Lodge 539, F&AM, Roaring Spring, Altoona Consistory and Jaffa Shrine, 
and a charter member and past president of the Chimney Rocks Beagle 
Club. Friends will be received in the Thompson Funeral Home, Roaring 
Spring, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow.

Altoona Mirror, July 29, 1972