OBIT: Blanche O. (BARTO) STEWART, 1987, formerly of Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Sharon Miller Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ Blanche O. Stewart Mrs. Blanche Olive Stewart, 84, formerly of 1266 Pennsylvania Avenue, Tyrone, who resided with her daughter at Apartment 12, Findley Drive, Pittsburg, the past two-and-one-half years, died Thursday, September 3, 1987 at 3:10 p.m. at Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburg, after a brief illness. She was born October 25, 1902 at Pennsylvania Furnace, the daughter of Lewis and Emma Kustaborder Barto. On January 28, 1921 at Cumberland, Maryland, she was married to James Edgar Stewart. He died December 25, 1984. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. James C. (Betty Mae) Yurko of Pittsburgh, one granddaughter, Bonnie Smith of Pittsburgh, four great grandchildren and three sisters, Ruth Loner and Elizabeth Shooly, both of State College RD, and Almeda Leff, of Elmira, New York. She was preceded in death by one son, one sister and one brother. She was a member of Christ United Methodist Church and the Mae Dubbs Sunday School Class. Funeral service will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Derman Funeral Home, with Reverend Neil R. Albright officiating. Interment will be at East lawn Cemetery, Tyrone. Friends will be received at the funeral home Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. Tyrone Daily Herald, September 1987 clipping