OBIT: Elizabeth (WESTNITZER) YOUNG, 1917, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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MRS. PETER YOUNG.

  Mrs. Elizabeth Young, wife of Peter Young, a highly esteemed and 
respected resident of the Eighth ward, died at her home, 506 Fourth 
avenue, at 10 o'clock last night, of a complication of diseases after 
an illness of several weeks.  Deceased's maiden name was Elizabeth 
Westnitzer and she was born in Bavaria, Germany, December 6, 1840.  She 
came to America with her parents, Lorenz and Elizabeth Westnitzer, who 
settled at St. Mary's, Elk county.  Later they removed to Carrolltown, 
Cambria county, and in 1864 from there to Hollidaysburg.  She wedded 
Mr. Young fifty-three years ago and to this union were born two sons - 
Edward W., of 304 Third avenue, and Francis S. Young, of 320 Third 
avenue, and three daughters, Mrs. Leonard Miller, of 1009 Lexington 
avenue; Mrs. P. F. Dalton, of 506 Fourth avenue; and Mrs. O. D. 
Plummer, of Llyswen.  She was a most devoted wife and mother.  She was 
also a devout member of St. Mark's Roman Catholic church and an upright 
and earnest Christian woman, always striving to bring sunshine to the 
lives of others.  She enjoyed the esteem of a wide circle of friends in 
the community in which she lived and throughout the city.
  Funeral services will be held in St. Mark's church at 8:30 Monday 
morning, high requiem mass to be celebrated by Rev. James B. Egan, 
rector.  Interment will follow in St. Mary's cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Friday Morning, January 5, 1917