OBIT: William C. MARSHALL, 1918, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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W. C. MARSHALL PASSES AWAY AT PHILADELPHIA
Altoona Druggist, Taking Treatment for Eye Trouble,
Preparatory To Entrance Into Army, Dies of Pneumonia

  William C. Marshall, aged 25, of 719 Eighth avenue, a druggist for A. 
A. Davis, of 1901 Eighth avenue, died in Jefferson hospital, at 
Philadelphia, at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon and because of the 
inability of Quaker City undertakers to take care of the rush business, 
relatives of the deceased wired Lafferty and Tobias, asking them to 
send an embalmer to that place to prepare the body for burial.  If it 
is entirely out of the question to secure an undertaker in 
Philadelphia, a man will be sent there to prepare the body.
  Rejected by the army at least a dozen times because of slight eye 
trouble, the young man who last June was graduated at the Philadelphia 
College of Pharmacy, went to the Jefferson hospital on Sept. 30 and the 
next day underwent an operation on his eyes.  He withstood the 
operation well, but developed pneumonia and the hospital was then 
quarantined because of the influenza epidemic, there being many 
patients in the institution.

ATTEMPTED TO ENLIST

  The young man attempted to enlist ten times before he was caught in 
the draft and then he was turned down twice by the board because of the 
slight eye defect and he decided to go to Philadelphia to have an 
operation performed in order to get into the service.
  For a number of years Marshall worked in the Davis drug store and 
also went to school, being graduated in May.  He then underwent the 
state board examination and successfully passed, his diploma being 
received last week, although it did not reach him and as yet has not 
been removed from the wrapper.  
  Messrs. Lafferty and Tobias last night attempted to arrange with a 
Philadelphia undertaker to take charge of the body, but unless it can 
be done, one of these men will go to Philadelphia to prepare the 
remains and bring them to this city.

HIS BIOGRAPHY

  He was the son of J. W. and Ida Marshal and was born in this city 
April 28, 1893, spending all his life here.  He was a member of the 
Fifth Avenue Methodist church and besides his parents is survived by 
one sister, Mrs. L. E. Dunn and two brothers, R. G. Marshall of this 
city, and John at home.

Altoona Times, Thursday Morning, October 10, 1918

FUNERAL NOTICE.

  The funeral services of the late William C. Marshall will be held 
from his home, 719 Eighth avenue, at 4.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.  
The burial will be made in Rose Hill cemetery.

Altoona Times, Friday Morning, October 11, 1918