Cresson TB Sanatorium Remembered

PAGE 5: Union Cemetery Service

These photos were taken on the way to and at Union Cemetery for the Memorial Service.


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1.  Here and in Photo 10 Etta Albright is our tour guide on the bus ride to Union Cemetery.

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2.  It was overcast, but the rain held off for the Union Cemetery visit.

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3.  ?????, Dave Huber and ?????.

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4.  David Solomon of WQED, bagpiper Jim McFadden and Dave Huber.

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5.  Jim McFadden plays the bagpipes while Chuck Felton places a wreath in memory of the TB patients buried in Union Cemetery.

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6.  Jim McFadden getting ready to play the bagpipes.

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7.  Chuck Felton.




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8.  Flat grave markers of the san patients.


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9.  Chuck Felton looking at the grave marker of his friend Herbert Eby, who died at the san in 1958.

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10.  Patty Satalia of PBS Radio Station WPSU in State College is recording Etta's narrative.

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11.  Chuck Felton and Patty Satalia interviewing ??????.

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12.  Peggy and Chuck Felton.



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13.  Jim McFadden.


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14.  Chuck Felton stands with members of Boy Scout Troop 59 of Gallitzin, who attended the memorial service to help the elderly visitors.

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15.  The memorial wreath and monument.


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16.  Patty Satalia, Paul Ruggeri, Skip Shrauder and Chuck Felton.

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17.  Grave marker for Herbert Eby.  Only their date of death was recorded for san patients.

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18.  Some gravesites of san TB patients are marked by a small stone with no name, but only a number such as this one.