Laura K Christian

HOME SADLY STRICKEN. Mrs. Elmer G. Christian Dies After Brief Illness on Wedding Anniversary.

The home of Elmer G. Christian of 2919 Oak Avenue, whose poems are well known to readers of The Mirror, is doubly saddened today when, not only on the day before christmas, but also on her tenth wedding anniversary, the wife and mother, Mrs. Laura K. Christian, was called by death.

Mrs. Christian died at 5.45 this morning of bronchial pneumonia, after an illness of less than a week. She was born in Salemville, Bedford county, March 25, 1876.

She is survived by her husband and parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Stiffler of New Enterprise, and by two children, Fern and Mary, both at home. Also by these, brothers and sisters: Mrs. D.S. Brumbaugh of Altoona, Mrs. G. S. Pote of Baker's Summit and Mrs. F. S. Brumbaugh, Mrs D. W. Snyder, Mrs. A. R. Pressel. and N. R. and H. A. Stiffler, all of New Enterprise,

She was a consistent member of St. Paul's Lutheran church. Private funeral services at the home on Saturday afternoon. Interment in Carson Valley cemetery.

Altoona Mirror: Wednesday, December 24, 1913, page 14.

Married December 1903.

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Private services at the home Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. Interment in Carson Valley Cemetery.

Altoona Mirror: 12/26/1913 Friday

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County Deaths 1913 - Mrs. Elmer G. Christian, age 37, died Dec. 24, of bronchial pneumonia. Of 2919 Oak Ave., Altoona, PA

Her daughter Nancy Fern Christian died at age 15

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