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Percy Carvel Allison

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Percy Carvel Allison

Birth
Death
29 May 1961 (aged 81)
Burial
Glen Rock, York County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section A lot 72
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Percy C. Allison, 81, New Freedom, retired musician, died Monday at 5 p.m.at York R. D. 7.

He was the husband of Mrs. Belle Herbert Allison and was a former optometrist and jeweler. He was the second oldest member of the Glen Rock Band and a former member of the Spring Garden Band. From 1908 to 1911 he performed with the 13th Coast Artillery Band at Fort DuPone, Del. He was formerly solo cornetist with the Jacksonville (Fla.) Park Band. He was a 50-year member of Jackson Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Delaware City, Del., and a member of Harrisburg Consistory and the Scottish Rite and Zembo Temple, Harrisburg.

Besides his widow he leaves two children, William H.
Allison, Arlington, Va., and Mrs. Ray E. James, Cottage City, Md.; four grandchildren, one great-grandchild, three brothers and two sisters, Earl, Loganville; Roy, Glen Rock; Lloyd Allison, Seitzland; Mrs. Joseph Grafton, Jacobus, and Mrs. J. Warfield Akins, Red Lion. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at the Hartenstein funeral home, New Freedom. Burial will be Glen Rock Lutheran Cemetery.
-The Evening Sun (Hanover, PA), Wed, May 31, 1961
Percy C. Allison, 81, New Freedom, retired musician, died Monday at 5 p.m.at York R. D. 7.

He was the husband of Mrs. Belle Herbert Allison and was a former optometrist and jeweler. He was the second oldest member of the Glen Rock Band and a former member of the Spring Garden Band. From 1908 to 1911 he performed with the 13th Coast Artillery Band at Fort DuPone, Del. He was formerly solo cornetist with the Jacksonville (Fla.) Park Band. He was a 50-year member of Jackson Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Delaware City, Del., and a member of Harrisburg Consistory and the Scottish Rite and Zembo Temple, Harrisburg.

Besides his widow he leaves two children, William H.
Allison, Arlington, Va., and Mrs. Ray E. James, Cottage City, Md.; four grandchildren, one great-grandchild, three brothers and two sisters, Earl, Loganville; Roy, Glen Rock; Lloyd Allison, Seitzland; Mrs. Joseph Grafton, Jacobus, and Mrs. J. Warfield Akins, Red Lion. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at the Hartenstein funeral home, New Freedom. Burial will be Glen Rock Lutheran Cemetery.
-The Evening Sun (Hanover, PA), Wed, May 31, 1961


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