OBIT: Matilda Jane (YINGLING) YON, 1917, Duncansville, Blair County, PA

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MRS. HENRY YON.

  At 4:30 Wednesday afternoon Matilda Jane, wife of Henry Yon, died at 
her home west of Duncansville, of a complication of diseases, after an 
illness of three weeks.  Mrs. Yon was a daughter of Frederick Yingling 
and was born in Blair county, August 18, 1846, being aged at death 70 
years, 5 months and 26 days.  On December 12, 1867, she was united in 
marriage to Henry Yon.  After their marriage they moved to 
Duncansville, which had since been their home.  Besides her husband, 
she is survived by one son, Lloyd, of South Altoona; a daughter, Mrs. 
Boyd Piper, of Altoona, a brother, John Yingling, of Duncansville, 
eleven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
  Mrs. Yon was a member of the Duncansville Lutheran church for a long 
time and also belonged to the Ladies' Circle of the G.A.R.  The funeral 
service will be held at the Duncansville Lutheran church Saturday 
morning at 10 o'clock.  Interment in Carson Valley cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday Morning, February 15, 1917