OBITUARIES: Charles R. Colbert; 19 & 20 Nov 1964

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Charles R. Colbert

Johnstown Tribune-Democrat
19 Nov 1964

Dr. Colbert, Dentist, Dies At Age of 70

Served With City School System for More Than 40 Years

	Dr. Charles R. Colbert, local practitioner and Johnstown 
School System dentist for more than 40 years, died at 6:40 p.m. 
Wednesday at Memorial Hospital. He was 70.

	Dr. Colbert, of 130 Hammer Avenue, was instrumental as a 
member of the former Municipal Music Pavilion Commission in the 
building of the Roxbury Park Bandshell.

Began Practice in 1924

	Upon being graduated from the dental school of the University 
of Pittsburgh in 1924, Dr. Colbert returned to Johnstown--his 
native city--to establish his practice. Three months after 
returning here, he was named dentist for the school system.

	Dr. Colbert, who took his pre-dental studies at Pitt, was a 
drum major for that school's band. He served 2 terms as 
president of the Pitt Band Alumni Club.

	He was a 1917 graduate of Johnstown High School where he 
played football and basketball.

Headed Dental Staff

	Dr. Colbert was elected head of the dental staff of Memorial 
Hospital in 1951. He was active for many years in Cambria County 
Chapter, American Red Cross, serving as local chairman of the 
chapter's speakers' bureau in the 1951 fund drive.

	In 1960, Dr. Colbert was appointed Cambria County chairman 
for the U.S. Olympic Fund Committee.


Johnstown Tribune-Democrat
Friday, 20 Nov 1964
Page 28

	COLBERT -- Dr. Charles R., 70, 130 Hammer Avenue, died at 
6:40 p.m. Nov. 18, 1964, at Memorial Hospital. Born July 21, 1894, 
in Johnstown, son of Jacob M. and Catherine (Esterly) Colbert. 
Preceded in death by parents and sister, Mrs. Elsie Colbert 
Farley. Survived by widow, former Alice Leffler; son, Charles R. 
Jr., 844 Vickroy Avenue, and daughter, Mrs. Alice R. Diehl, 
Millhall, Pa.; also grandson, Charles R. Colbert III. Member of 
Franklin Street Methodist Church; Conemaugh Lodge 278, F. & 
A.M.; Connell 32, Royal Select Masons; Portage Royal Arch 
Chapter 195; Knights Templar 65; Williamsport Consistory; Jaffa 
Shrine; Forest 127, Tall Cedars of Lebanon; American Dental 
Society; Cambria County Dental Society; Johnstown Post 294, 
American Legion; Voiture 23, 40 et 8, and Johnstown Varsity 
Letter Club. World War I veteran. Friends received at John 
Henderson Funeral Home, 215 Central Avenue, where service will 
be held at 2 p.m. Friday, the Rev. Paul J. Meuschke. Interment, 
Grandview Cemetery.