OBITUARIES: Matilda Allison Colbert; 28 Sep 1921.

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Johnstown Tribune 
28 Sep 1921

Matilda Allison Colbert

MISS COLBERT, 86, HAS PASSED AWAY

Deceased Born in Virginia, Had Lived in This Vicinity for Over 
70 Years

	Miss Matilda Allison Colbert, aged 86 years, is dead, 
having expired this morning at her home, 523 Bedford street, 
Fourth Ward, following a long illness of complication of 
diseases. The body was this afternoon removed by the John 
Henderson Company in the G.A. Gonder home, 587 Bedford street, 
where funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday 
afternoon by the Rev. Leroy M. Humes, pastor of the Cooper-
avenue M.E. Church, with burial in Benshoff's Cemetery.  The 
deceased was a daughter of Robert and Rebecca (Witherow) Colbert 
and was born in the State of Virginia in 1835. Her parents came 
north over 70 years ago and located at Cambria Furnace below 
Coopersdale. Miss Colbert was a sister of Mrs. Ellen Vann, of 
Haynes street, and Mrs. Helen Wonderly and Otha Colbert, of 523 
Bedford street. She was one of the oldest members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church of Coopersdale.