OBIT: Joseph Branson WORRELL, 1944, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja Copyright 2004. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _______________________________________________ PLAN MILITARY FUNERAL FOR CITY VETERAN Pfc. Joseph Branson Worrell, aged 31, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clair T. Worrell of 1015 Seventeenth avenue, will be reinterred in Fairview cemetery on Wednesday afternoon, four years from the day on which he was killed in action in France. Military honors will be accorded the veteran. The body will arrive in Altoona at 6.10 o'clock tomorrow evening and friends will be received at the Hickey funeral home after 7 o'clock tomorrow evening. Funeral services will be held at the Hickey funeral home on Wednesday afternoon. Pvt. Worrell was killed in action in France July 14, 1944, while serving with the cannon company of an infantry unit. He entered the army in October, 1942, training at Camp Atterbury, Ind., where he was graduated from a motor school and then participated in maneuvers in Tennessee. He went overseas to England in March, 1944, and moved into France two weeks after the invasion opened. Prior to entering the army he was employed in the Altoona works blacksmith shop, having been graduated in 1931 from Altoona High school. He was a member of the First Baptist church of the city and an active member of the church Bible school. Pvt. Worrell was born in Hastings July 2, 1913. Surviving are the parents, three sisters, Mrs. Paul Trotter, Mrs. Earl McGarvey and Mrs. Kenneth McManamy, all of the city; two nephews and one niece, Wayne Worrell, Richard McGarvey, and Demaris Trotter. Altoona Mirror, Monday, July 12, 1948, pages 1, 10 FUNERAL NOTICE WORRELL - Funeral services for J. Branson Worrell of 1015 Seventeenth avenue, will be held with military honors at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Hickey funeral home in charge of P.E. Mundy of the Bell Avenue Baptist church. Interment in Fairview cemetery. Friends are being received at the Hickey funeral home after 7 o'clock Tuesday evening. Altoona Mirror, Monday evening, July 12, 1948, page 19