OBIT: William H. SHUNK, 1954, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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WILLIAM H. SHUNK

Of 1110 Seventeenth street, who retired as an engineer on the Pittsburgh 
division May 1, 1935, died at 8.20 o'clock last night in the Altoona hospital 
where he was admitted last Wednesday. He was born in Jennerstown April 1, 1885, 
a son of Jonathan and Amanda (Shaffer) Shunk, and married Miss Bertha Hays, who 
died Jan. 7, 1947. Mr. Shunk was a member of the First Methodist church, the 
Masonic orders and Jaffa Shrine. He came to Altoona and entered the service of 
the railroad company as a fireman Dec. 18, 1888. Surviving are one brother and 
one sister, George E. of Altoona and Mrs. Charles N. Persing of Bellwood. 
Friends will be received at the Laughlin funeral home after 7 o'clock this 
evening. 

Altoona Mirror, December 28, 1954