OBITUARIES: Harry Colbert, Johnstown Daily Tribune, 5 Dec 1946.

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Johnstown Daily Tribune
5 Dec 1946

Harry Colbert Dies at Age 83

	Harry Colbert, 83, an East Taylor Twp. farmer for 50 years, 
died at 1:15 p.m. yesterday at his home at Wesley Chapel. Mr. 
Colbert had served as road supervisor in East Taylor Twp. for 
three terms and at one time was a foreman for the Johnstown 
Water Company.

	He was born in what is now the Eighth Ward on Apr. 10, 
1863, a son of Robert and Catherine (Pier) Colbert. His wife, 
the former Catherine Cute, died 15 years ago.

	Surviving are nine children - Mrs. Ella Moore, Mrs. Grace 
Varner and Harry and Charles Colbert, all of East Taylor Twp.; 
Robert, Johnstown; Mrs. Catherine Munday, Parkhill; Mrs. Annie 
Varner, South St.; Edgar, Wesley Chapel, and Dewey, Belsano. One 
sister, Mrs. Belle Wonder, 628 Pine St., and 19 grandchildren 
and 36 great-grandchildren also survive.

	Mr. Colbert had eight grandsons in the Army and one 
granddaughter, Miss Helen Munday, in the Army Nurse Corps during 
World War II. One grandson, Lawrence D. Varner, was killed in 
Italy on Jan. 9, 1944.

	Friends are being received at the home of a daughter, Mrs. 
Herman Munday, Parkhill. Services will be held at the Munday 
home at 2 p.m. Saturday by Rev. G.E. Letchworth. Interment will 
be in Wesley Chapel Cemetery under the direction of the Carl E. 
Davis Funeral Home.