OBIT: Charles Tracy PRESSEL, 1965, Loysburg, Bedford County, PA

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CHARLES TRACY PRESSEL

Of Loysburg, died at 11.35 p.m. Saturday in the Nason Hospital, Roaring 
Spring, after a brief illness. He was born at Waterside on July 3, 
1887, a son of W. K. and Mary Ellen (Miller) Pressel, and on March 9, 
1910, in Bedford married Sarah Reighard. Surviving are his wife, five 
children, William, Mrs. Romaine Markey and Glenn of Loysburg, Ross and 
Mrs. Grace P. Detwiler of Everett; 11 grandchildren, seven great-
grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. Arvilla Rawson of Juniata; a half-
brother, Robert of Hagerstown, and a step-brother, Herbert Johnson of 
Pitcairn. He was a member and elder emeritus of the Loysburg United 
Church of Christ, a charter member of the Cove Lions Club, and retired 
as a gas attendant at the Ashcom plant of the New Enterprise Stone & 
Lime Company. Friends will be received in the Weaver Funeral Home, 
Woodbury, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today and after 10 a.m. tomorrow.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., September 20, 1965
Blair County Genealogical Society, Hoenstine Obituary Collection, vol. 
55, p. 58 (1965)