Cumberland Evening Times, Monday, June 10, 1929
Obituary
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Otho H. Alburtis
Otho H. Alburtis, 76, for more than 40 years a printer for the Daily News, died early yesterday morning at his home, 478 Goethe Street, following a brief illness.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Emma Alburtis, his is survived byt two sons and three daughters as follows: Otho A. and John S. Alburtis, Mrs. Frank A. Shober, Jr., this city; Mrs. S. H. Lazarus, of Roanoke, Va., and Mrs. Mark Seifert, of Bedford, Pa. He also leaves a sister, Mrs. Virginia Stewart of
Martinsburg, W. Va.
Mr. Alburtis was a member of the Junior Order, United American Mechanics, and of Cumberland Local No. 244, International Typographical Union. He was the oldest active printer in this section of the country. During his long career he witnessed the introduction of the linotype and other modern machinery now used to produce a newspaper.
He would have been 76 years old today.
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Cumberland Evening Times, Wednesday, June 12, 1929
Funeral of Otho H. Alburtis
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Funeral services for Otho H. Alburtis, 76, veteran printer of the Daily News, who died Sunday morning at his home, 478 Goethe Street, were held at 2:30 this afternoon at the home, with Rev Frank Y. Jaggers, pastor of Kingsley Methodist Episcopal Church, officiating. Burial was in Greenmount Cemetery.
The pallbearers, all members of Cumberland Local No. 244, International
Typographical Union, were: Frank Walker, T. R. Peterman, John H. McCullough, William Renner, James Orr and William Frazier.
Cumberland Evening Times, Monday, June 10, 1929
Obituary
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Otho H. Alburtis
Otho H. Alburtis, 76, for more than 40 years a printer for the Daily News, died early yesterday morning at his home, 478 Goethe Street, following a brief illness.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Emma Alburtis, his is survived byt two sons and three daughters as follows: Otho A. and John S. Alburtis, Mrs. Frank A. Shober, Jr., this city; Mrs. S. H. Lazarus, of Roanoke, Va., and Mrs. Mark Seifert, of Bedford, Pa. He also leaves a sister, Mrs. Virginia Stewart of
Martinsburg, W. Va.
Mr. Alburtis was a member of the Junior Order, United American Mechanics, and of Cumberland Local No. 244, International Typographical Union. He was the oldest active printer in this section of the country. During his long career he witnessed the introduction of the linotype and other modern machinery now used to produce a newspaper.
He would have been 76 years old today.
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Cumberland Evening Times, Wednesday, June 12, 1929
Funeral of Otho H. Alburtis
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Funeral services for Otho H. Alburtis, 76, veteran printer of the Daily News, who died Sunday morning at his home, 478 Goethe Street, were held at 2:30 this afternoon at the home, with Rev Frank Y. Jaggers, pastor of Kingsley Methodist Episcopal Church, officiating. Burial was in Greenmount Cemetery.
The pallbearers, all members of Cumberland Local No. 244, International
Typographical Union, were: Frank Walker, T. R. Peterman, John H. McCullough, William Renner, James Orr and William Frazier.
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