OBIT: Laura G. (NYCUM) STIFFLER, 1933, Juniata, Blair County, PA

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MRS. LAURA G. STIFFLER
 
Of 117 East Bell avenue, widow of Joseph C. Stiffler, died at the home 
of a brother, Jesse T. Nycum of Eighth avenue and Hill street, Juniata, 
at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon of pernicious anemia after several 
months' illness. She was born at Clearidge, Bedford county, on Feb. 8, 
1874, a daughter of William H. and Elizabeth Nycum, but had resided in 
Altoona for the past forty years. On Dec. 23, 1897, she was united in 
marriage with Mr. Stiffler, who died in August, 1926. Surviving are two 
sons, Ralph L. and Clarence E. Stiffler, her father, three brothers and 
six sisters, Jesse T. and Edward B. Nycum, both of the city, Everett A. 
Nycum of Saltillo, Misses Edith and Lena Nycum, Mrs. Mildred Phillips, 
Mrs. Fred Shields and Mrs. Edna Thiese, all of the city, and Mrs. 
Bessie Smouse of Saltillo. Mrs. Stiffler was a member of the Second 
Avenue United Brethren church for the past thirty-eight years. Funeral 
services will be held at the Gilden funeral home at 2 o'clock Friday 
afternoon with Miss Gertrude Mitchell, assistant pastor of the Second 
Avenue United Brethren church, officiating in the absence of the 
pastor, Rev. R. E. Penick. Interment will be made in Greenwood 
cemetery. The body may be viewed at the funeral home. Friends are 
requested to omit flowers.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday, January 25, 1933, p. 16, col. 
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