OBITUARIES: Newton J. Colbert; 30 Jun & 9 Jul 1943.

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Newton J. COLBERT

Johnstown Tribune 
30 Jun 1943

FORMER LOCAL MAN IS INJURED IN FALL

	Newton J. Colbert, 54, a former resident here and for the 
past 37 years a resident of Lorain, O., is in a critical 
condition in a Lorain hospital. Mr. Colbert fell from a scaffold 
several days ago while making repairs on his home. X-rays have 
shown an injury to the spinal column.

	Mr. Colbert, a son of the late J.W. Colbert and of Mrs. 
Nancy Colbert, who now resides at 514 Vine St., was employed as 
a locomotive engineer here in his youth. He went out to Lorain 
to continue the same work and is now foreman of locomotive 
engineers at the Lorain, O., plant of the Carnegie-Illinois 
Steel Corporation. He has been active in civic affairs in Lorain 
and served several terms as a councilman. A brother George, 
captain of the Johnstown Fire Company, died here about five 
years ago, and another brother, Sylvester, who died a number of 
years ago, had been a foreman in the Franklin Mills. A sister, 
Mrs. Nancy Ling, resides at 514 Vine St., and another sister, 
Lucy, intermarried with Rev. Robert Ling, resides at Beaver. Mr. 
Colbert is married and has a daughter.



Johnstown Tribune
9 Jul 1943

NEWTON J. COLBERT, INJURED IN FALL, DIES IN LORAIN, O.

Former Johnstowner was Son of Mrs. Nancy Colbert of Vine St.

	Newton J. Colbert, 54, former Johnstowner, died at 12:30 
o'clock last night in a Lorain, O., hospital, where he had been 
a patient for nearly two weeks. Mr. Colbert was removed to the 
hospital immediately after a fall from a scaffold while making 
repairs to the upper story of his home. In falling, his back 
struck the roof of a stoop and his face was injured when it 
struck a walk. Death was attributed to injury of a cervical 
vertebra.

	Funeral services will be held in Lorain at 2 p.m. Monday. 
Mr. Colbert is survived by his widow and a son.

	The Lorain resident was a son of the late J. Wesley 
Colbert, former Johnstown Water Company employee, and of Mrs. 
Nancy Colbert, 514 Vine St. William Colbert, better known as 
"Billy the Puddler" and associated with early development of the 
iron and steel industry here, was Newton Colbert's grandfather.

	The deceased is the last of three sons of the family to 
die. A brother, Sylvester, foreman in the Franklin coke plant, 
died in 1924, and another brother, George, a captain of the 
Johnstown Fire Department, died in 1934. A sister, Mrs. Nancy 
Ling, resides at 514 Vine St., and another sister, Lucy, wife 
of Rev. Robert Ling, resides near Beaver. Mrs. Viola (Colbert) 
Williams, a third sister, is deceased.

	Mr. Colbert was a locomotive engineer here. He went to 
Lorain to work in the same capacity for the plant there of the 
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. He held the post of foreman 
of locomotive engineers of the plant at the time of his 
death.

	Taking an active interest in civic affairs in Lorain, Mr. 
Colbert served as city councilman for several terms.

[Editor's note: Please contact contributor Michael S. Caldwell 
for information about the confusion concerning the name of 
Newton J. Colbert's mother, "Mrs. Nancy Colbert."]