OBIT:  RISBAN, Pearl (Crawford); 1943; Ashville, PA

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THE JOHNSTOWN TRIBUNE
Monday Evening, 7 Jun 1943
page 15, column 2

Mrs. Joseph Risban

ASHVILLE – Mrs. Pearl (Crawford) Risban, 52, wife of Joseph Risban of Ashville, 
died yesterday morning in Altoona Hospital. A daughter of Robert and Alice 
(DeHaven) Crawford, she was born in Du Bois on Feb. 19, 1891. Surviving are 
her mother, who resides in Gallitzin; her husband, and seven children – Pvt. 
Alfred Domzella, stationed in California; Cpl. William Risban, stationed in 
Mississippi; Merle, Johnstown; Mary, Pittsburgh, and Margie, Gerald and Ruth, all 
at home. She also leaves six stepchildren – Gilbert, Colorado; Bernard, at home; 
Clete, California; Clem, Homewood; Mrs. Walter Pringle, Delaware, and Pvt. 
Wilmer Risban, stationed in Mississippi. Mrs. Risban was a sister of John 
Crawford, Cleveland, O.; Mrs. E. H. Shultz, Altoona; Mrs. Harry Olnhausen, 
Pittsburgh; Mrs. R. E. Howell, Gallitzin, and Mrs. John Begandy, Rochester, N.Y.

Funeral arrangements, under the direction of Walter A. Gibbons, Ashville 
mortician, are incomplete.