OBIT: Robert Bruce HONSTINE, 1918, native of Huntingdon County, PA

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ROBERT BRUCE HONSTINE

  Robert Bruce Honstine died in the University Hospital in Philadelphia 
on Friday night Oct. 4th.  He was the son of Henry (deceased) and Mrs. 
Amy B. Honstine, and was born in Huntingdon on July 30, 1892.  He left 
Huntingdon with Company F, 8th Regiment in Sept. 1917, and was 
discharged from the company on July 24, 1918.  Previous to leaving with 
Company F, he had been afflicted with typhoid fever, and at the time of 
the Company leaving here, he had just been removed from the Blair 
Memorial Hospital where he spent seven weeks.  He was sick during his 
entire time at camp, and later sustained a slight stroke of paralysis 
which affected his one side and also his speech.  About three weeks ago 
he was removed to the University Hospital in Philadelphia, where the 
physicians and friends had planned to operate on him for a tumor of the 
brain, but the tumor was so located that the operation could not be 
performed.  Previous to enlisting, he had been employed in the P.R.R. 
freight transfer in this place.  Robert Bruce Honstine was the youngest 
of the family, and is survived by his mother and the following brothers 
and sisters: Joseph A., James, David, Mrs. Clara Feltenberger, and Mrs. 
Lilly Spangler, all of Huntingdon.  Following his death, the body was 
brought to Huntingdon, where funeral services were held with interment 
in Riverview cemetery.

Altoona Times, Tuesday Morning, October 8, 1918