OBIT: Bertha Huntingdon AFRICA, 1955, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, PA

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Prominent Huntingdon Woman Dies 

  Miss Bertha Huntingdon Africa, 86, of 509 Mifflin Street, Huntingdon, 
former school teacher and prominent club woman, passed away this Monday 
morning, April 18, 1955, in the J. C. Blair Memorial Hospital in 
Huntingdon.  
  The deceased was born November 4, 1868, in Huntingdon, the youngest 
of seven children of William and Mary Jane (Dieffenbacher) Africa.  
  She was graduated from the Huntingdon public schools, West Chester 
State Normal School and the Thomas Normal Training School at Detroit, 
Michigan.  She taught school in Tyrone for nineteen years, and later 
served on the faculty of the Thomas Normal Training School.  
  Miss Africa returned to Huntingdon in 1919, and resided with her 
sister, Ella, who preceded her in death in 1933.  
  She was a life-long member of the First Methodist Church in 
Huntingdon and was a member of the Huntingdon chapter of the Daughters 
of the American Revolution, the Huntingdon Civic Club, the J. C. Blair 
Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, the Juniata League and Friends of the 
Library.  
  A number of nieces and nephews, children of the late John, Harry and 
Herman Africa and Julia Africa Taylor, survive.  A brother, Elmer 
McClellan Africa, was a former president of the J. C. Blair Company.  
Miss Africa was the last surviving member of her immediate family.  
  Funeral services will be held this Wednesday, April 20, 1955, at 2 
p.m. at her late home, 509 Mifflin Street.  Her pastor, the Rev. 
Gilbert L. Bennett, and Dr. Calvert N. Ellis, president of Juniata 
College, will officiate and interment will be made in Riverview 
Cemetery, Huntingdon.  Friends may call at the late home after 4 p.m. 
on Tuesday until the hour of services.  Brown funeral service, 
Huntingdon.

Daily News, Huntingdon Pa., April 18, 1955, page 10