OBIT: Charles Milton WESTBROOK, 1931, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Lynn Ayers Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ________________________________________________ C. M. WESTBROOK DIES EARLY TODAY Prominent Shoe Merchant Succumbs to Pneumonia Charles Milton Westbrook, member of one of Huntingdon's oldest families and long identified with its business life died this Saturday morning, August 29, 1931 at 6:20 a.m. from pneumonia. He had been sick only since last Wednesday but chronic heart trouble added to the seriousness of his illness. He was aged 68 years and 16 days. Charles Milton Westbrook was born in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania on August 13, 1863, the son of John H. and Anna Meredith Westbrook, while his mother was enroute from the home in Huntingdon to visit the father, a Civil War soldier, who was imprisoned in Libby Prison. Mr. Westbrook has been a lifelong resident of Huntingdon and actively engaged in many phases of the town's life. He entered the shoe business in 1880, being taken into the store by his father as a partner under the firm name of J.H. Westbrook & Son. This business had been started in 1833 by Charles M. Westbrook's grandfather, Levi Westbrook, in a store on Penn Street but in 1886 it has moved to its present location. This shoe store is the second oldest business in Huntingdon. For the past few years, Mr. Westbrook, because of poor health, had retired from the business, which has been ably carried on by his sons, C. Edgar and Kirk M. Westbrook. Mr. Westbrook was a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Huntingdon and a member of the Royal Arcanum. Mr. Westbrook has been active in the social, business and religious life of Huntingdon for many years and, with his passing, there goes a man who had the confidence and friendship of a community who knew him as an upright character, fair in all his dealings with the large group with who he dealt. He was a man devoted to his family and interested in rearing aright his three sons. On September 13, 1892, he had been united in marriage with Annie M. Edwards of Cooks, Huntingdon County, who survives with the sons, C. Edgar, A. Lawrence and Kirk M., all of Huntingdon. Two sisters also survive: Mrs. Amy M. Coutz and Mrs. Harriet Forbes, both of Huntingdon. The funeral service will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Brown's funeral parlor with Rev. E.B. Davidson officiating. The body may be viewed at Brown's up until the time of the funeral. Burial will be made in Riverview Cemetery. Obit clipping was found in Lucinda Kissinger Martin's green photo album.