OBIT: Wallace STRUNK, 1919, Huntingdon County, PA

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HUNTINGDON
A FATAL ACCIDENT

  Wallace Strunk met accidental death of Wednesday morning while at 
work in the woods on a saw mill near Steffys.  He was driving his team 
to the spot where a tree being cut fell in an unexpected direction, a 
branch striking him upon the head and crushing the skull.  He lingered 
three quarters of an hour but was unconscious.  Wallace Strunk was a 
son of Mrs. Mary Strunk.  He was single and 30 years old.  Surviving 
besides the mother are three brothers: Thomas in U. S. Service in 
France; Charles, of Altoona; Findlay, of near Williamsburg; and the 
following sisters: Mrs. T. M. Wilson, of near McAlevy's Fort; Mrs. 
Minnie McGirk, of Wilkinsburg, and Annie Strunk, of Altoona.  Justice 
of the Peace J. Edgar Irvin, of McAlevy's Fort, held an inquest under 
direction of Coroner Schum, at the scene on Thursday at 9 o'clock.

Altoona Tribune, Friday Morning, March 21, 1919