Joseph Abaray was an 11-year-old boy who tragically lost his life on Labor Day, September 4, 1933 in Braddock, Pennsylvania a little over a year after the death of his mother.
This article appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Tuesday September 5, 1933:
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Boy Drowns in Swimming Against Sister's Pleas
Joseph Abaray, 11, of 1106 Willow Way, Braddock, disregarding his oldest sister's admonishments yesterday afternoon, went swimming with chums in the Monongahelia River at the foot of Eleventh Street and was drowned.
The boy went in the river too far, and the suction from a sewer drew him under.
Charles Weaver, 12, of River Avenue, school chum of Joseph, vainly tried to save him.
Braddock police and officers from the nearby Carnegie steel works recovered the body after a half hour's search. The police worked over the boy an hour with a pulmotor, but when he did not respond he was rushed to Braddock General Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Joseph did not have any father or mother. He lived with his older sister, Mary, 23; two brothers, John, 19, and Michael, 16, and his younger sister, Betty, 8.
He had been a frequent visitor to the river during the summer, and his sister had warned him to stop.
Joseph's oldest sister, Mary, 23, was at St. Michael's school in Braddock registering him and his younger sister, Betty, 8, when the tragedy occurred.
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Joseph was laid to rest in All Saints Braddock Catholic Cemetery on September 7, 1933. He does not have an individual grave marker.
Rest in peace, Joseph. You are not forgotten.
This article appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Tuesday September 5, 1933:
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Boy Drowns in Swimming Against Sister's Pleas
Joseph Abaray, 11, of 1106 Willow Way, Braddock, disregarding his oldest sister's admonishments yesterday afternoon, went swimming with chums in the Monongahelia River at the foot of Eleventh Street and was drowned.
The boy went in the river too far, and the suction from a sewer drew him under.
Charles Weaver, 12, of River Avenue, school chum of Joseph, vainly tried to save him.
Braddock police and officers from the nearby Carnegie steel works recovered the body after a half hour's search. The police worked over the boy an hour with a pulmotor, but when he did not respond he was rushed to Braddock General Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Joseph did not have any father or mother. He lived with his older sister, Mary, 23; two brothers, John, 19, and Michael, 16, and his younger sister, Betty, 8.
He had been a frequent visitor to the river during the summer, and his sister had warned him to stop.
Joseph's oldest sister, Mary, 23, was at St. Michael's school in Braddock registering him and his younger sister, Betty, 8, when the tragedy occurred.
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Joseph was laid to rest in All Saints Braddock Catholic Cemetery on September 7, 1933. He does not have an individual grave marker.
Rest in peace, Joseph. You are not forgotten.
Joseph Abaray was an 11-year-old boy who tragically lost his life on Labor Day, September 4, 1933 in Braddock, Pennsylvania a little over a year after the death of his mother.
This article appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Tuesday September 5, 1933:
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Boy Drowns in Swimming Against Sister's Pleas
Joseph Abaray, 11, of 1106 Willow Way, Braddock, disregarding his oldest sister's admonishments yesterday afternoon, went swimming with chums in the Monongahelia River at the foot of Eleventh Street and was drowned.
The boy went in the river too far, and the suction from a sewer drew him under.
Charles Weaver, 12, of River Avenue, school chum of Joseph, vainly tried to save him.
Braddock police and officers from the nearby Carnegie steel works recovered the body after a half hour's search. The police worked over the boy an hour with a pulmotor, but when he did not respond he was rushed to Braddock General Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Joseph did not have any father or mother. He lived with his older sister, Mary, 23; two brothers, John, 19, and Michael, 16, and his younger sister, Betty, 8.
He had been a frequent visitor to the river during the summer, and his sister had warned him to stop.
Joseph's oldest sister, Mary, 23, was at St. Michael's school in Braddock registering him and his younger sister, Betty, 8, when the tragedy occurred.
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Joseph was laid to rest in All Saints Braddock Catholic Cemetery on September 7, 1933. He does not have an individual grave marker.
Rest in peace, Joseph. You are not forgotten.
This article appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Tuesday September 5, 1933:
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Boy Drowns in Swimming Against Sister's Pleas
Joseph Abaray, 11, of 1106 Willow Way, Braddock, disregarding his oldest sister's admonishments yesterday afternoon, went swimming with chums in the Monongahelia River at the foot of Eleventh Street and was drowned.
The boy went in the river too far, and the suction from a sewer drew him under.
Charles Weaver, 12, of River Avenue, school chum of Joseph, vainly tried to save him.
Braddock police and officers from the nearby Carnegie steel works recovered the body after a half hour's search. The police worked over the boy an hour with a pulmotor, but when he did not respond he was rushed to Braddock General Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Joseph did not have any father or mother. He lived with his older sister, Mary, 23; two brothers, John, 19, and Michael, 16, and his younger sister, Betty, 8.
He had been a frequent visitor to the river during the summer, and his sister had warned him to stop.
Joseph's oldest sister, Mary, 23, was at St. Michael's school in Braddock registering him and his younger sister, Betty, 8, when the tragedy occurred.
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Joseph was laid to rest in All Saints Braddock Catholic Cemetery on September 7, 1933. He does not have an individual grave marker.
Rest in peace, Joseph. You are not forgotten.
