Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Fosbrink, John Irvin August 15, 1879 - April 13, 1956
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     John Irvin Fosbrink was born August 15, 1879 in Virginia.  He is the son 
of Herman Fosbrink Sr and Susanah Johnston.  John has six brothers and sisters 
Frank, Samuel, Emma, Robert, Herman Jr., and Sophia.  His family moved to 
Pennsyvania where he met and married Mary Magdalena Grimm in Normalville, 
Pennsyvania.  As a young child he completed his schooling up to the 5th grade.
     When he met Mary she already had one child Cora A. Lindeman.  John and 
Mary had twelve more children.  Susannah, Rosalie, Charles, Harry, Daniel, 
Gertrude, Samuel, Martha, Mabel, John Irvin, Beatrice, and Donald Sr..  John 
always had hid children come to dinner each sunday as they started to move 
away from home.  He and his family lived in the Breckneck community where they 
attended the Breckneck Church of God.
     John was a hard worker and worked as a saw mill worker and towards the 
end of his life he worked at a glass factory.  He always liked to buy new 
cars, he bought his last new car in 1928, it was a Chevy.  He was very helpful 
in the community around him ant taught his family to work hard.  He bought and 
owned his own house in the Coonelsville area.
     His son Charles was a truck driver in the Connelsville area and also his 
son Daniel worked in the same area as a machine operator.  His son Donald 
worked as a chef in the New York area and his son Harry was killed in action 
while serving in the military during World War 2.
     Later in John's life he developed asthma which eventually led to his 
death.  He died in the Connelsville State Hospital on April 13 1956 at 5:55am 
in the morning after a very exteded illness.  At the time of his death he was 
survived by six children, Daniel, Charles, Donald, Cora, Rose and Beatrice a 
brother samuel and a sister Emma Frantz and 30 grandchildren and also 32 great 
grandchildren.  A rrangements for his funeral were taken care of by Brooks 
Funeral Home and the Reverend G. Marion Smith conducted the funeral after 
which he was buried in the Percy Cemetery on April 16, 1956.

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