OBIT: Adeline (FUNK) KEEFER, 1900, Birmingham, Huntingdon County, PA

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DIED SUNDAY MORNING
Mrs. Francis Keefer Died After an Illness of Eight Months

  Mrs. Adeline Funk Keefer, wife of Francis Keefer, of Eden Valley, 
died at the home of John S. Atlee in Sinking Valley at one o'clock 
Sunday morning, whither she had gone about three weeks ago with the 
hope that she would gain improvement in health.  She was a sufferer 
from heart trouble for about eight months.
  Deceased was the daughter of Samuel Funk, who died at the Templeton 
homestead near Arch Spring in 1893, and Eliza Funk, who survives.  She 
was born at Huntingdon Furnace on the 28th July, 1849, and at death was 
aged 50 years, 9 months and 15 days.  Besides her mother, her husband 
and one son, Clyde, survive, together with one brother and one sister, 
namely:  Blair Funk of Birmingham, and Mrs. John S. Atlee.  She was the 
niece of Mrs. Anna Smith and cousin of Mrs. Ella Black and M. C. 
Cherry, of Tyrone.
  Deceased was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church.  
The funeral was held Tuesday.  Services at the home of John S. Atlee at 
10 o'clock a.m., by Revs. J. R. Shipe and H. H. Henry.  Interment in 
the Presbyterian cemetery, Birmingham.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., May 17, 1900, page 5