OBIT: Gladys (Speck) HARRISON, 1940, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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GLADYS SPECK HARRISON

  Gladys Speck Harrison, aged 50, wife of C. J. Harrison, Jr., prominent 
Somerset insurance man, justice of the peace and real estate dealer, died in the 
Memorial Hospital in Johnstown, Tuesday morning at 3:15.  Death was attributed 
to a cerebral vascular stroke. Mrs. Harrison's health had been impaired about a 
year ago, when she suffered a slight stroke attributed to hypertension.
  Mrs. Harrison became suddenly ill after having attended an entertainment in 
the Cochran Junior High School in Johnstown.  She was accompanied to Johnstown 
by her daughter, Gladys, Miss Catherine Snyder and Mrs. Wadsworth Wagner. 
  Mr. Harrison and his two sons were notified by telephone as Mrs. Harrison was 
rushed to the Memorial Hospital.  She had lapsed into a coma from which she 
never rallied.
  Surviving are her husband, Charles J. Harrison, Jr., two sons, Charles J. 
Harrison, III, Frank Harrison, two daughters, Gladys and Virginia, two brothers, 
Dr. Frank Speck, teacher in Swarthmore College near Philadelphia, Reinhard Speck 
of Rockford, Mass., and one grandson, Frank Harrison, Jr.
  Funeral services were conducted this Thursday afternoon from the family home 
in Somerset by Rev. J. F. Messenger.  Interment was made in the Husband Cemetery 
under the direction of Charles R. Hauger, mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, October 31, 1940