OBIT: Matthew L. SIMPSON, 1950, Warriors Mark, Huntingdon County, PA

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MATTHEW  L. SIMPSON DIES WHILE AT WORK

  Matthew Lewis Simpson, of Warriors Mark R. D., and veteran of World 
War I, died unexpectedly Monday morning at 10 o'clock of a heart attack 
while working on a lumbering job near Dungarvin.
  He was born September 9, 1893, in Warriors Mark R.D., the son of 
Isaac and Susan Myrtle Keefer Simpson.  He had been a lifelong resident 
of Warriors Mark Valley.
  He is survived by a brother, Ralph Simpson, Altoona, and a sister 
Mrs. Alverta Hanna, Bellefonte.
  He was of the Methodist faith, a member of the Anderson-Denny Post 
No. 4559, Veterans of Foreign Wars of Tyrone, and the Blazing Arrow 
Hook and Ladder Company of Tyrone. He was employed as a woodsman.
  During World War I, he served in the Medical Corps in France having 
enlisted July 28, 1917, going overseas June 4, 1918, and returning to 
the United States for honorable discharge July 26, 1919.
  Friends will be received at his home after 7 o'clock this evening, 
until the time of the funeral services Thursday at 2:30 o'clock in the 
Methodist church at Dungarvin, in charge of the Rev. Paul E. Myers.  
Burial will be in Burket cemetery, Warriors Mark.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., January 17, 1950