OBIT: Gertrude (HUNTER) SHOPE, 1948, Bellwood, Blair County, PA

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MRS. GERTRUDE SHOPE

Of 1220 North Cambria street, Bellwood, died at 1.20 o'clock this 
morning at the Altoona hospital after a brief illness.  She was born 
Nov. 2, 1871, at Cedar Crest, Mifflin county, a daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. George Hunter.  Her husband, Albert Shope, died in 1937.  
Surviving are two sons and one daughter, C. M. and Norman L. Shope of 
Bellwood and Mrs. Ada Cook of Birdsboro, Pa.; 11 grandchildren and one 
sister, Mrs. Ida Harmon of Altoona.  Mrs. Shope was a member of the 
Methodist church.  Friends will be received at the Fuoss mortuary after 
2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.

SHOPE - Funeral services for Mrs. Gertrude Hunter Shope of 1220 North 
Cambria street, Bellwood, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock 
in charge of Rev. H. S. Hoenstine at the Fuoss mortuary chapel.  
Interment in the Odd Fellows cemetery at Mount Union.  Friends will be 
received at the Fuoss mortuary chapel after 2 o'clock Tuesday 
afternoon.

Altoona Mirror, Monday Evening, August 23, 1948