OBIT: John Calvin ANKENY, 1978, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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  JOHN CALVIN ANKENY
  
  Lieutenant Colonel John Calvin Ankeny, 80, a resident of Sun City, Arizona
  and a retired officer of the United States Air Force, died from a heart
  aliment at his home on December 29, 1978.
  Lt. Colonel Ankeny was a decendant of the Pioneer Ankeny and Harned
  families of Somerset County.  He was born March 11, 1898 in the Pittsburgh
  area, the son of Harry and Jennie (Sowers) Ankeny.  The parents and a sister
  Gertrude preceded him in death. 
  Colonel Ankeny had attended the University of Pittsburgh and served in the
  Army Air Corps in World War I, following which, he became an employee of
  the Ford Motor Company.  Until the beginning of World War II he was an
  executive of the company in Yokohama, Japan.  During World War II he was on
  active duty as an intelligence officer in the South Pacific.  He was a Mason.
  In addition to his wife, Mary Elizabeth at the home in Sun City, he is
  survived by a niece Mrs. E.F. (Paula) Harvey of Yeardon.
  Close relatives, in the Washington area, include retired Air Force Colonel
  George Francis Brown of Arlington, Va., and Clarence C. Brown of
  Alexandria, Va., first cousin of the deceased.  Final rites with interment
  at Arlington National Cemetery were conducted by Air Force Chaplin Carl E.
  Bilderback, Major USAF.
  
  The Republic Jan. 11, 1979
  
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