OBIT: Calvin Jacob WEYANT, 1944, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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CALVIN JACOB WEYANT

Well known Pennsylvania railroad retired trainman, died Wednesday 
evening at 6.30 o'clock at his home, 104 Fifth avenue, this city, death 
being attributed to a complication of ailments.  He was a son of Jacob 
and Sophia Weyant, both now deceased, and was born at Claysburg on 
April 2, 1868.  On Aug. 22, 1929, he was united in marriage with Miss 
Carrie Elizabeth Black, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Fred R. 
Greninger at the Temple Lutheran church.  Surviving are two sisters, 
Mrs. H. C. Graybill and Mrs. W. F. Burns, both of Altoona.  He was 
educated in the Claysburg schools and early in life became a trainman 
for the Pennsylvania railroad and served in that capacity for forty-
eight years and four months prior to retiring in 1937.  He was a member 
of the Trinity Evangelical and Reformed church, Logan lodge No. 1059, 
I.O.O.F., the Fraternal Order of Eagles and of the Brotherhood of 
Railway Trainmen.  Friends will be received at the home after 7 o'clock 
this evening.

WEYANT - Funeral services for Calvin Jacob Weyant will be conducted at 
the home, 104 Fifth avenue, Altoona, Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock in 
charge of his pastor, Rev. Howard F. Boyer, assisted by Rev. John F. 
Hardt of the First Pentecostal church.  Interment in the Greenwood 
cemetery.  Friends will be received at the home after 7 o'clock this 
evening.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., April 7?, 1944