OBIT: Thornton GROVE, 1918, of interest in Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ________________________________________________ GROVE Thornton Grove died on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at Kistler, from the effects of Spanish influenza and pneumonia. Deceased was the son of Harry and Margaret Grove (the former deceased), and was aged about 32 years. He had been employed for some time at the Mount Union Refractories company. He was united in marriage to Miss Bessie Chilcote, who survives him with two children, a boy and a girl. He is also survived by his mother, two half sisters, the Misses Blanche and Martha Sechrist, of Altoona, and one half brother, Robert. The funeral service was conducted on Friday following at 2 p.m. in Orbisonia, with interment in the Orbisonia cemetery. Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday Morning, October 29, 1918