OBIT: KINKEAD, Martha Lewis; 1912; Johnstown, Cambria Cnty., PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, 13 Dec 1912 Volume 45, Number 49 Death of Miss Martha Kinkead Miss Martha Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Kinkead, of Johnstown, who was operated on at the German Hospital, Philadelphia, on Thursday, died at that institution shortly after noon Sunday. Miss Kinkead, who was one of Johnstown's best known and most skilled nurses, had been ill for many months and was accompanied to Philadelphia recently by her sister, Miss Edith Kinkead and Miss Fannie Kerr, the latter of the Conemaugh Valley Memorial hospital nursing staff. Her case was taken in hand by Dr. J. H. Deaver, the eminent operating surgeon, who advised her that her malady was fatal and that her only hope lay in an operation that likewise might prove fatal. Miss Kinkead courageously decided to undergo the ordeal. She rested comfortably on Friday but on Saturday her condition suddenly weakened and she rapidly declined until the hour of her death. Ernest N. Kinkead, a brother, was summoned to Philadelphia on Saturday and was at his sister's bedside at the hour of her death. Miss Edith Lewis Kinkead was born at Ebensburg. She was graduated from the Memorial Hospital Training School for Nurses in the Spring of 1904. Besides her parents, Miss Kinkead is survived by a brother and two sisters – Mary, wife of James Underwood of Renova; Miss Edith Kinkead at home and Ernest N. Kinkead. Miss Kinkead was identified with the Presbyterian Church and the Conemaugh Valley Nurses Association. The body was taken to the Kinkead home in Johnstown where her funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and burial was in Grandview Cemetery.