OBIT: Jennie (ACKER) STUCKEY, 1917, Llyswen, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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MRS. BRUCE STUCKEY

  At the Nason hospital, Roaring Spring, Jennie Acker, wife of Bruce 
Stuckey, died after a short illness of a complication of diseases.  She 
was a daughter of Paul B. and Sarah A. Acker and was born at McKee's 
Gap July 28, 1882.  After the death of her parents, while she was quite 
a young girl, she came to Roaring Spring and made her home with her 
sister, Mrs. J. F. Himes, until her marriage to Mr. Stuckey, October 
14, 1904.  They established their new home at Llyswen and have since 
lived there.  Mrs. Stuckey was a lifelong member of the Lutheran 
church, always closely connected with its activities and a regular 
attendant at worship.  She was a most devoted wife and mother and 
leaves a host of friends to mourn her death.  She was a member of the 
Ladies' auxiliary, Knights Templar, of Altoona.  Surviving are her 
husband and five children - Martha, Willard, Ethel, Lewis and Robert; 
also two brothers and two sisters, Albert Acker and Mrs. J. F. Himes, 
of Roaring Spring; Mrs. Scott Corl, of Elwood City; Frank of Gilroy, 
Cal.  Funeral arrangements are not complete and will be announced 
later.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday morning, March 7, 1917

Funeral Notices.

  Funeral services over the remains of Mrs. I. Bruce Stuckey, late of 
Llyswen, will be held in the Llyswen Methodist Episcopal church this 
evening at 8 o'clock.  On Friday morning the remains will be taken to 
Roaring Spring where services will also be held in St. Luke's Lutheran 
church at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.  Interment will be made in 
Roselawn cemetery there.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday morning, March 8, 1917