OBIT: Catherine SPARR, 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/ _______________________________________________ Deaths of Children. Catherine Sparr, aged 2 years, whose parents live in Williamsburg, died at the Altoona hospital, yesterday morning at 10:40 o'clock, from a complication of diseases. The child was an adopted one, and is survived by relatives in this city. The body is to be taken to Williamsburg today, where interment will be made. Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Friday Morning, November 24, 1916 Williamsburg The remains of Catharine, the 2-year-old daughter of Lawrence Sparr, who died at the Altoona hospital Thursday at 10.40 of acute appendicitis, after a brief illness, were brought to the home on West Third street Thursday evening in charge of Funeral Director H. O. Snively. The funeral will take place today at 2 o'clock, interment in the Sparr cemetery on Clover Creek. Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday Morning, November 25, 1916