OBIT:  PRUNER, Loretto; 1908; Loretto, Cambria Cnty., PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 24 Jul 1908
Volume 42, Number 29


Death of Miss Loretto Pruner 
East Ward Young Lady Succumbs to Pulmonary Trouble after a Year's Illness

Miss Loretto Pruner, the seventeen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Pruner of 
High Street, East Ward, expired at the home of her parents on Sunday morning last 
after a year's illness of a pulmonary affection.

Miss Pruner was born in Allegheny Township, her mother being a daughter of Squire W. 
A. B. Little of Loretto, but her parents having removed to Ebensburg several years ago, 
she has since lived here a general favorite in the community.  Her last illness was borne 
with a Christian fortitude and resignation remarkable in one so young in years with a 
bright prospect in life before her.  Besides her parents, the following brothers and sisters 
survive her:  May, Hattie, Emma, William, Camille, Edward, John, Donald, Florence and 
Robert.  

The funeral on Tuesday of the deceased was one of the largest that has taken place in 
Ebensburg for years, and the expressions of respect and sympathy of the multitudes 
showed the esteem in which she was held in the community. The remains in a beautiful 
casket were conveyed to the hearse by the pall bearers: William Owens, Connie Lieb, 
Maurice Luther, Leo Kimball, Reamer Apel and Robert Davis, followed by a long line of 
carriages containing the mourners; and many friends from Loretto and Ebensburg were 
conveyed to the church of the Holy Name of which the deceased had been in life a 
faithful and devoted member, where after a Solemn High Mass of Requiem, by the 
rector, Rev. Father H. M. O'Neill with Father Vogel of Cresson as deacon and Rev. Father 
Weisenberger of St. Francis College as sub-deacon, and an affecting and impressive 
sermon by Rev. Father O'Neill, interment was made in the new cemetery of the church 
in the West Ward, where loving hands will deck her grave while the remembrance of her 
pure life will long endure in the communities in which she was known and loved.