OBIT: Thomas WAITE, 1926, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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THOMAS WAITE DIED SUDDENLY TODAY
Death Almost Instant on His Sixty-fourth Birthday

  This morning at 5.30 o'clock, without a moment's warning, Thomas 
Waite, of 16 West Eleventh street, passed into the eternal life. For 
nineteen years Mr. Waite had been employed by the Gardner Coal company, 
later the Tyrone Fuel and Supply company. Yesterday he had a day off 
and had reported for duty early this morning, his birthday, and had 
only worked a few minutes when he fell to the floor of the barn and 
passed peacefully away. His physician stated that apoplexy caused his 
death.
  Thomas Waite was a son of George and Mary Woomer Waite. He was born 
at Ironsville, November 4, 1862, and had resided in this community all 
his life. On May 29, 1883, he was united in marriage at Birmingham with 
Miss Ida Miller, who with these sons and daughters survive to mourn the 
death of a devoted husband and father: George of Akron, Ohio; Elmer and 
Sylvester, Mrs. Guy Merriman and Mrs. Harry Thompson, of Tyrone; Mrs. 
Daniel Elvey, of Altoona. He is also survived by these brothers and 
sisters: Harry and Calvin, of Ironsville; Mrs. Viola Gillman of Tyrone; 
Mrs. Harry Mingle of Nealmont. The death this morning is the fourth to 
have occurred in the family in ten months.
  Thomas Waite was a respected citizen of Tyrone. He was a kind, loving 
husband and splendid neighbor. He was honest and honorable and gave his 
employers a faithful service, always on duty and never flinching a 
duty.
  The funeral services will be announced in Friday's Herald.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., Thursday, November 4, 1926, p. 1, 
col. 3