This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Howden Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BUB.2ACI/5899 Message Board Post: SHIRLEY HOWDEN Sept. 12, 1934 Word was received last Friday afternoon by Mr. and Mrs. A.S. HOWDEN of this place, that their youngest son Shirley, aged 39, had passed away at the Veteran's Hospital at Bath, where he had been taking treatments for the past few weeks. Great hopes were held by his family and friends for his recovery, but it seemed to no avail. Hence his untimely ending. Shirley was a graduate of the Bryant & Stratton Business College of Buffalo, although the past 14 years he had lived on his father's farm on Snyder Hill. During the World War, he was with the navy department, spending some of his term of 26 months on the battleships Illinois, S. Carolina and Connecticut. It is believed that his illness dated back to the war time period. He suffered from an attack of influenza at a Philadelphia Naval Hospital, also underwent an operation for appendicitis at Portsmouth, Va., remaining in the hospital ten months. To mourn this extreme loss are his widow, Margaret, and three young children, his father and mother, three brothers, and two sisters and many friends. The funeral was held at the family home in Perry Sunday at 2:30 o'clock with burial in Pine Grove Cemetery, Fillmore. [Northern Allegany Observer obituary, transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from Cora Lahr's scrapbooks, Fillmore, NY]