This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McDowell Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2dB.2ACI/2607 Message Board Post: The Ligonier, PA "Echo" issue of 24 May 1957, p. 1, col. 5 John W. McDowell Local Blacksmith Succumbs At 83 John W. McDowell, 235 W. Church St., Ligonier, died Wednesday at 6:43 p.m. in the Latrobe Hospital. He was a life-long resident of Ligonier and the Valley and for over 50 years was a well-known blacksmith and bee-keeper. Born in Ligonier Township, Dec. 20, 1874, he was the son of Cyrus I. and Isabelle Jane McDowell. He is survived by his wife, Clara Robbins McDowell and the following children: Mrs. Samuel L. (Nelle) Kurtz, Camp Hill, Pa.; Mrs. Donald H. (Frances) Robb, Ligonier; Mrs. A.H. (Isabelle) Kratzke, Mrs. Charles H. (Leone) Small, Chambersburg, Pa., and Emmett E. McDowell, Ligonier. Also surviving is one brother, Walter, and one sister, Mrs. Emma McDowell, both of Ligonier Township. Eleven grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren also survive. Friends will be received at the D. Paul Wilkinson Funeral Home, Ligonier until Saturday when services will be held there at 2:30 p.m. by his pastor, The Rev. John D. Van Horn of the Ligonier Methodist Church. Interment will follow in the Ligonier Valley Cemetery. ____________________________________________