George Leftridge

Clarksburg (W. Va.) Telegram., January 15, 1932

George Leftridge, 24, colored, formerly a bell boy in a Fairmont hotel, died at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Leftridge, 101 ½ Grant street, at 10:10 o’clock this morning, following a long illness of tuberculosis.

Surviving relatives include the parents; one sister, Pauline, at home, and three brothers, William and James, at home, and Charles, of Buckhannon avenue.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete.

Clarksburg (W. Va.) Exponent., Saturday Jan. 16, 1932

Funeral plans are still incomplete for George Leftridge, 28, colored, former bell boy of Fairmont, who died at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Leftridge, 101 ½ Grant street, at 10:10 o’clock yesterday morning of tuberculosis.

Surviving relatives include the parents, one sister, Pauline, at home, and three brothers, William and James, at home, and Charles of Buckhannon avenue.

Post card image of Clarksburg where George Leftridge once lived
Clarksburg (W. Va.) Telegram., January 16, 1932

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o’clock tomorrow afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Leftridge, 101 ½ Grant street, for their son, George, 28, a former colored bell boy at a Fairmont hotel, who died yesterday at home of tuberculosis. The Rev. C. H. Woody, a Baptist minister, will officiate. Interment will be made in the Memorial Park cemetery at Grasselli.

Sunday Exponent-Telegram., January 17, 1932

Funerl services will be held at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon from the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Leftridge, 101 ½ Grant street, for their son, George, 28, colored, who died Friday of tuberculosis. The Rev. C. H. Woody, Baptist minister, will officiate, and interment will be made in the Memorial Park cemetery at Grassellli.

Transcribed from “OBITUARIES from NEWSPAPERS of Northern West Virginia ”SECOND SERIES Vol 1. Compiled by W. GUY TETRICK, Clarksburg, W. Va.

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