OBIT: Lucy Amelia (HENCH) BURD, 1917, native of Perry County, PA

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MRS. J. M. BURD

  Mrs. Lucy Amelia Burd, wife of J. M. Burd, lately removed from 
Pittsburg, died at the home of a sister, Mrs. C. C. Cooper, of 710 
Third avenue, Juniata, after an illness of several weeks.  The deceased 
lady was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Hench (both deceased) and was 
born in Perry county on October 27, 1877.  She is survived by her 
husband and one daughter, Vivian, and also by the following brothers 
and sisters: W. R. Hench, of Perry county; Rev. E. E. Hench, of 
Brighton, Mich.; Rev. Charles R. Hench, of Camden, N.J.; Mrs. Alida 
Morsolias, of Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. Frank H. Wilson, of Kingston, Ill.; 
Mrs. Lulu Treverton, also of Seattle; Mrs. E. Katherine Hench, of 
Pittsburg, and Mrs. C. C. Cooper, of Juniata.
  Mrs. Burd was a consistent Christian woman and an active member of 
the Knoxville Christian church, of Pittsburg.  Short funeral service 
will be held in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cooper tomorrow evening and 
will be conducted by the Rev. Alexander Lamberson, pastor of the First 
Methodist Episcopal church of Juniata.  On Thursday morning the remains 
will be taken to Newport for interment.
  (Pittsburg and Perry county papers please copy.)

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday Morning, January 9, 1917