OBIT: William GAILEY, 1950, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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WILLIAM GAILEY

Of 1418 Eighteenth avenue, died at 12.30 o'clock this morning in Mercy 
hospital where he had been a patient since Wednesday after a long 
illness.  He was born on his father's farm in Antis township April 20, 
1876, a son of James and Lydia (Jackson) Gailey, and retired in 1946 as 
a gang foreman at the westbound repair tracks after having served the 
Pennsylvania railroad for 50 years, receiving the honor emblem of the 
company.  Mr. Gailey was a member of the First Presbyterian church.  
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Georgianna (Ramsey) Gailey; two sons, 
Donald R. of Pittsburgh and William L. of Wilkinsburg; six 
grandchildren, two brothers and two sisters, Andrew of Worthington, 
Samuel A. and Mrs. George Rhodes of Williamsburg and Mrs. Linnie Diehl 
of Altoona.  A daughter, Mrs. Sylvia Harkness, preceded him in death.  
Friends will be received at the Laughlin funeral home after noon 
tomorrow.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Friday, May 12, 1950