OBIT: Matthew R. RENWICK, 1962, Sandy Ridge, Centre County, PA

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Matthew R. Renwick 
 
  Matthew R. Renwick, Sandy Ridge, died Saturday at 6 a.m. in the 
Hollidaysburg State Hospital after a lengthy illness, due to 
complications of age.  
  He was born April 16, 1886, at Falls Creek; Tioga County, the son of 
Lawson and Mary Staly Renwick.  He married Nellie Sara Fullington who 
died in 1933. He had been a resident of Sandy Ridge the past thirty-
five years.  
  Surviving are sons and daughters Lawson, Sandy Ridge; Mrs. Earl 
Vaughn, Williamsburg; Mrs. James Barnett, Jack and Melvin, all of Sandy 
Ridge; 12 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. 
John Henry, Sr., Tyrone Pike.  
  He was a member of the Sandy Ridge Evangelical United Brethren 
Church, of the Elks Lodge at Philipsburg, The Central District 
Fireman's Association, the Mountain Top Fire Co. of Sandy Ridge, and 
the Blazing Arrow Hook and Ladder Fire Co., Tyrone. He had been an 
employee of the Harbinson-Walker Refractories Co. for 55 years prior to 
retirement.  
  Funeral service will be held tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at the Heath 
Funeral Home, Osceola Mills, in charge of the Rev. T. O. Fuoss.  Burial 
will be in Philipsburg Cemetery.  Friends will be received at the 
funeral home this afternoon and evening and on Tuesday until time of 
service.  Elks memorial services will be held at 9 o'clock this evening 
by Philipsburg Lodge No. 1173.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., May 21, 1962, page 3