OBIT: Howard VAN TRIES, 1891, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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Sudden Death of a Child.

  Several weeks ago Mrs. Harry Van Tries, jr., of this city, went to 
Davenport and Bellview, Iowa, to visit relatives, taking with her her 
twin boys.  On Monday Mr. Van Tries received a letter from his wife, 
written on the 2d, stating that she and the boys were well.  Yesterday 
morning he was startled by the receipt of a telegram stating that his 
wife was bout to start home and that Howard, one of the children, was 
dead.  As to the cause of this sudden death nothing is yet known.  The 
dead child was aged 5 years, 5 months and 8 days.  The many friends of 
Mr. and Mrs. Van Tries will deeply sympathize with them in this sudden 
bereavement.  The funeral will take place from the residence of John 
Hall, Tenth street between Chestnut and Lexington avenues, at 10 
o'clock a.m. to-morrow.  Interment at Fairview cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, January 8, 1891