OBIT: George RUSSELL, 1918, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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RUSSELL.

  George Russell, a well known lodge-man and a prominent baseball 
player and manager, died at his home, 2015 Second avenue, at 10.15 
o'clock yesterday morning, following an illness of several weeks from 
typhoid pneumonia.  He was born in Altoona on March 15, 1878, and was 
the son of William and Ann Jane Russell (both deceased) of this city.  
He was manager of the Machine Shop baseball team in 1915 and 1916 and 
during the first year succeeded in bringing to that organization its 
first pennant.  While he was manager of the team they also won the 
Eastern Pennsylvania P.R.R. title of champion.  He was also manager of 
the old Monarch baseball team about twenty years ago.  He was an 
employe of the frame shop and took a prominent part in recent Liberty 
loan campaigns, being chairman of the shop loan committee on recent 
loans.  He was junior warden at St. Luke's church and a member of Hiram 
lodge, F.N.A.M., Jaffa temple, Scottish Rite Masons, Knights of Pythias 
and the Eagles.  He had been a life-long resident of this city and has 
always taken an interest in public matters.  Surviving are his wife, 
Mary Fitzpatrick Russell, two sons, George F. and Henry H., both at 
home, and the following brothers and sisters, Henry, Margaret, 
Catherine and Elizabeth, all of this city.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday Morning, October 15, 1918

FUNERAL NOTICE.

  Funeral services of George Russell will be held from his late home at 
2015 Second avenue, at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon, with burial in Oak 
Ridge cemetery.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday Morning, October 16, 1918