OBIT: Howard B. WAITE, 1933, native of Blair County, PA

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HOWARD B. WAITE

Well known train director at Harrisburg for the Pennsylvania railroad 
and a resident of Mechanicsburg, died suddenly last Friday at the 
Polyclinic hospital in Harrisburg, death being attributed to influenza. 
He was the son of the late Thomas and Louise McQuillan Waite and was 
born in Ironsville on Feb. 20, 1874. He was associated with the 
railroad company for the past forty years and was a resident of 
Harrisburg and Mechanicsburg the past thirty-two years. He is survived 
by his wife, and one daughter, Mrs. Treva Mowry, widow of Frederick 
Mowry of Tyrone, and one son, Horace L. Waite. He is also survived by 
one brother, R. Clarence Waite of Shippen street, Tyrone. Mr. Waite was 
a member of the Presbyterian church at Mechanicsburg, the Benevolent 
and Protective Order of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the 
P.R.R. Relief association. Funeral services were conducted at the 
Mechanicsburg home Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock by the pastor, Rev. 
Fulton. Interment was made at Mechanicsburg.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Monday, February 6, 1933, p. 16, col. 1