JANSSENS, LEPREUX, ALLISON, WALKER, GORDON, FEHL, WHITHERSPOON, HELM, STEPONOVICH, MCLAUGHLIN, MCLAUGHLIN, MOORE, MCCURDY, BOTT, FERRIS Louis JANSSENS, aged 49 years and 23 days, died at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, December 28, 1927, in his home, 217 Center avenue, McDonald, of pneumonia, after a five days' illness. Mr. JANSSENS was born December 5, 1878 in Brussels, Belgium, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene JANSSENS. On June 5, 1905, he was united in marriage with Miss Marie BRACONNIER, and two and a half years later--on December 15, 1908--they came to the United States and settled in McDonald. Mr. JANSSENS immediately began work at his trade of painter, and built up a prosperous business. He was polite and industrious, and had many friends who were shocked when they learned of his unexpected death. He is survived by his wife, a daughter Rachel, age 13, and a son, Louis Jr., age 8. Albert JANSSENS of Washington avenue is a brother. His father and one brother, Leon JANSSENS, live in Belgium. Funeral services will be held at nine o'clock Saturday morning in St. Alphonsus' church. Burial will be in St. Patrick's cemetery, Noblestown. Eugene LEPREUX, age 75 years and 10 months, died at eleven o'clock Thursday night, December 22, 1927, at the home of his youngest daughter, Mrs. Zelma ADAM, in Deerfield, Ohio. Mr. LEPREUX came from France to the United States in 1880, and located in McDonald. He followed the occupation of a coal miner until about a quarter of a century ago, when he retired to look after his property in Barr street, McDonald. About four years ago he went to live in Ohio. Mrs. LEPREUX died in McDonald about twenty-five years ago. Mr. LEPREUX is survived by two daughters: Louise, the wife of Alexander GLAUTHIER of Barr street, and Zelma, the wife of Eli ADAM of Deerfield, Ohio. There are ten grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Alexander GLAUGHIER home in Barr street, conducted by the Rev. Auguste DEVOS of the French U. P. church. Interment was in the Robinson's Run cemetery. Walking into his home Monday night, December 26, 1927, about 11:30 o'clock, Donald Duncan ALLISON, passed his wife and said, "It won't be long now." He passed into an adjoining room and a shot rang out and Mrs. ALLISON rushed in and found that he had fired a bullet through his heart, causing instant death. No reason was given for his rash act. He was 32 years of age, an ex-serviceman, and had seen service overseas, being connected with the 28th Division. ALLISON had been a resident of Burgettstown for a number of years, had been employed by the Panhandle Petroleum Co., and had been a steady worker. He was a member of the Burgettstown fire department and more than a year ago, while returning from a fire, suffered an injury which fractured his skull. He never fully recovered from this injury, and it is believed that this had something to do with his act Monday night. He leaves his wife, who was Miss Mary MCCUE, and two small children: William, age five, and Pearl, age six. He is also survived by the following brothers and sisters: Jesse ALLISON of Hickory, Thomas ALLISON of Mt. Pleasant, Everett and William ALLISON of Uniontown, Clyde ALLISON of Washington, Daniel ALLISON of Alliance, Ohio, George ALLISON of Pughtown, Charles ALLISON of McDonald, Ellsworth ALLISON and Clark ALLISON of Burgettstown, Mrs. Blake HAYES and Mrs. Andrew SMITH of Burgettstown. Funeral services are being held this Thursday afternoon in the First Presbyterian church, Burgettstown. Paul F. WALKER, age 31, a fireman on the Pennsylvania railroad, whose home is in Dennison, Ohio, was injured Saturday night, December 24, 1927, while walking from McDonald to the home of his father-in-law, Thomas HOLAREN, a quarter of a mile south of town, on the WADE farm. It is thought that he had been hit by a car while walking. WALKER, who had ended his run for the night, had left a train about nine o'clock and had then gone to McDonald for a while and had started to walk to the home of his father-in-law, where were his wife and three small children. What happened is unknown, but J. R. CROW and S. H. HERRIOTT found him lying in the road and started to stop their care to pick him up, when another car, driven by Quentin MCALLISTER of Canonsburg, and having as a passenger William J. MCCOY, also of Canonsburg, came along and also saw the prostrate man. They tried to stop but the sudden application of their brakes caused the car to turn around. When they stopped they found the body of WALKER lying under the car. Other drivers also saw the body run over by MCALLISTER, to whom they attached no blame. WALKER was picked up and rushed to the Mercy hospital, Pittsburgh, where he died Sunday morning at ten o'clock. Besides his wife, he leaves three small children: Thomas, Murn, (sic) and Judith Ann. He also leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas WALKER of Laurel hill, and five brothers and sisters, as follows: Alexander of McKees Rocks, Thomas of Cecil, James and William of McDonald, John of McKees Rocks, Mrs. James MCCAFFREY of McDonald and Mrs. Agnes RIDER of McKees Rocks. Funeral services were held Wednesday morning in St. Alphonsus' church. Burial was in St. Patrick's cemetery, Noblestown. He was accorded a military funeral by Ernest Phillips Post of the American Legion of McDonald. Martin GORDON, age about 35, died at five o'clock Friday morning, December 23, 1927, at his home in Sturgeon, following a long illness of kidney trouble. He is survived by his wife. Mr. and Mrs. GORDON formerly lived at Laure hill. Funeral services, conducted by the Rev. W. R. MCMUNN of Oakdale, were held Tuesday afternoon. Burial was in the Robinson's Run cemetery. Francis FEHL, age 16 months, died at seven o'clock Tuesday morning, December 27, 1927, at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward FEHL, Southside, McDonald, of spinal meningitis. Funeral services were held this Thursday afternoon, conducted by the Rev. J. I. KROHN. Burial was in Robinson's Run cemetery. Dr. George M. WITHERSPOON died suddenly at 7 a.m. Tuesday, December 27, 1927, at the home of a sister, Mrs. Lee B. PURDY, in Sewickley. Dr. WITHERSPOON was a guest, with other members of the of the WITHERSPOON family, at a Christmas dinner Monday at the home of another sister, Mrs. E. A. CULLEY, in Pittsburgh. He was there Monday in his usual health and in the evening accompanied his sister, Mrs. PURDY, home, and there his death occurred early Tuesday of angina pectoris. A son of Samuel and Jane ARMOUR WITHERSPOON, Dr. WITHERSPOON was born in Robinson township, where he resided with his parents until going to Fairview, Ohio, to engage in the practice of medicine, soon after graduating from the medical department of Ohio State university in Columbus in 1902. He attended Washington and Jefferson college and was a member of the Masonic order. Soon after war was declared in 1917, he offered his services and was assigned to the surgical department at Muscle Shouls. Practically all his life he was a member of the United Presbyterian church. Surviving Dr. WITHERSPOON are the two sisters, Mrs. PURDY and Mrs. CULLEY, another sister, Miss Clara WITHERSPOON of the music department, Sewickley college, and two brothers, J. A. who resides on the home farm, and Attorney A. R. WITHERSPOON of Washington. The funeral services were held this Thursday afternoon in Sewickley. Burial was in the Robinson U. P. cemetery. ... Armstrong ... West Penn Power Co., was killed Thursday afternoon of last week in a fall from a steel tower near Monongahela. The accident occurred about five o'clock as the young man was quitting work for the day. The unfortunate man had just completed repairs to a telephone line on top of a steel tower near Donora and was preparing to descent when static from a high-tension line above him is believed to have caused him to lose his balance and he fell to the ground a distance of forty feet. He was picked up unconscious and was rushed to Monongahela hospital, where he died an hour later without regaining consciousness. It was found that he had suffered two fractures of the skull and also a fractured leg. He was a member of the order of Patriotic Americans. Gage HELM, a brother of the deceased, was killed in the mines at Dewey fourteen years ago. The deceased was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey HELM of Tidal, and is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Neale HELM of Mahoning, Mrs. Walter KENNEDY and Mrs. M. W. GRAY of Templeton, Mrs. Charles BOWSER and Mrs. Samuel ROOFNER of Kittanning, Mrs. ... remainder missing. Mr. and Mrs. William NOVAS attended the funeral of Mrs. STEPONOVITCH in Mingo Junction, Ohio, Wednesday. *Noblestown column Many people from Oakdale, Sturgeon, and McDonald attended the funeral of Patrick MCLAUGHLIN Tuesday of last week. *Noblestown column James MCLAUGHLIN, a brother of Patrick MCLAUGHLIN, who was buried last week, died recently of heart trouble in East Pittsburgh. *Noblestown column Robert MCLAUGHLIN received word of the death on Monday of his brother, James MCCLAUGHLIN of Homewood, who died suddenly of heart trouble. He was the second brother to die of heart trouble within ten days. *Oakdale column Robert Anderson MOORE died at three o'clock Wednesday afternoon, December 21, 1927, at his home, 3036 Merwyn avenue, Corliss, in his 69th year. Mr. MOORE had been ill for several days suffering from a heavy cold, which developed into pneumonia, resulting in his death. Mr. MOORE had resided in the Oakdale locality for a number of years, having lived on the MOORE farm on the North branch road. Upon his retirement the family moved into the house the purchased from the estate of the late Rev. MCFARLAND, in Hastings avenue, Oakdale. Here the family lived until about three years ago when they moved to Corliss. Mr. MOORE was a member of the Oakdale United Presbyterian church before his removal. Besides his wife he leaves a son, Scoot (sic) MOORE, and one grandson of Pittsburgh. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon in the Oakdale United Presbyterian church, conducted by the Rev. H. C. KISTLER of Corliss, who was assisted by the Rev. W. R. MCMUNN. Burial was in the Oakdale cemetery. "Appleblossem" MCCURDY has gone to the Happy Hunting Ground. Old Tom MCCURDY, "aged 'bout 70," Indian fighter and soldier of fortune generally, died Monday of last week (December 19, 1927), after a life-time of venturing, and was buried last Saturday like the he-man he was in the soldiers' cemetery at Washington, Pa. Old Tom led a full life while he lived. None of your shut-in cities for him. Old Tom ranged the wide open spaces of the West in the days when every hillock, every gully, might bring its horde of savage Indians or still more savage grizzlies. For Thomas MCCURDY started out life in the open, on a farm at Indiana, Pa., and he never did hanker for the big towns. MCCURDY started roaming early, and he roamed on to the very end. MCCURDY hit out for the West just about the time CUSTER and his men were striking out on that fatal Sioux trail He joined up with the "Reg'lars," and under the far-famed Buffalo Bill set out to avenge CUSTER's massacre. MCCURDY and his outfit came up with the exultant Sioux in the Black Hills, where CUSTER had gone down, and early one day Redskin and Paleface were drawn up at death grips, and MCCURDY was in the front rank. MCCURDY was in the front rank when Buffalo Bill took up the challenge of Yellowhand and cut him down knife to knife. And MCCURDY was in the front rank when the Sioux broke ground and fled for the waste lands. Eight years straight MCCURDY served with the regulars, and then he started roaming on his own again. No one knows just where he went, but now and then in his latter days, he would drop a word or two about strange places at the world's ends. MCCURDY came back to the Western Pennsylvania he owned as his native soil some 20 years ago, and he never left it again, so far as any one can tell. He odd-jobbed here and there and farmed some, before he finally settled down on his last earthly abode, save one, on a People's Natural Gas Co. holding at Imperial. MCCURDY was a handy sort at a multitude of little tasks. He could prune a tree, trim a hedge, and above all, could prophesy the weather by a mere glance at the sky. He had an especial love for apple trees, folks say, and for that the children he drew to him termed him "Appleblossom." Folks thought MCCURDY was settled down to pass his remaining days in restful peace, but the old wanderlust popped up again Sunday before last and MCCURDY set out from Beallsville to Washington, over the National pike. MCCURDY got there, after 15 toiling, ever-wearying miles in which his still strong spirit refused to yield to his faltering limbs. But when the proprietor of a room he had rented in South Main street went to his door Monday nigh, he found that MCCURDY had "gone on," to join Buffalo Bill and CUSTER, and BOWIE and TRAVIS, and all the other pioneers who helped to make the Golden West of today. Supt. James HNEDERSON of the People's Gas Co. of Imperial, for whom Mr. MCCURDY worked at various times, learned of his death and went to Washington and made arrangements for his funeral. Mrs. George W. WACKER and daughter Virginia attended the funeral of George E. BOTT in the Northside, Pittsburgh, Saturday. *Oakdale column David, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. David FERRIS, died Wednesday evening, December 17, 1927. *Midway column