Columbia County Pennsylvania Obituaries Extracted From The Columbian, Bloomsburg, Pa., 1910

1910 Obituaries from the Columbian in Bloomsburg, Columbia County Pennsylvania.

RUNYON, Charles W., Obituary

Prominent Merchant and Member of Council Suddenly Expired on Monday Morning at His Home
Buried Today at Allentown
This community was startled on Monday morning by the announcement that Charles W. Runyon was dead. He expired at his home at about 3 o'clock a.m. He was attending to business as usual on Saturday and on Sunday evening he retired at about half past ten after reading to his son Robert who has been ill for some months past. He mentioned the fact that he had pain in the head, but otherwise gave no indication of illness. At about 3 o'clock in the morning he was attacked with intense pain, and started for the bathroom, saying to his wife that there was nothing she need do for him. In a little while Mrs. Runyon became uneasy and started after him, and found him lying on a bed in an adjoining bedroom. She spoke to him and tried to arouse him but he was unable to speak, though he indicated that he understood what she said by nodding his head. In a few moments he lapsed into unconsciousness, and in spite of efforts to revive him soon passes away, though the efforts were continued for some time, and Doctors Bierman and Brown were called in. A stroke of apoplexy is supposed to have been the cause of his death.

Mr. Runyon was born in Starkey, Schuyler county, New York. His parents' name was Abel and they died when he was about three years old, leaving him and two sisters to survive them. Soon after Charles was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Layton Runyon then residing in Troy, Pa., and was always a dutiful son, never realizing any difference between his own parents and those who adopted him. He passed his youth and young manhood in Troy, and was married to Miss Sarah Persons of Allentown back in the sixties. They came to Bloomsburg over thirty years ago, and Mr. Runyon went in partnership with his father in the hardware business, and about 15 years ago purchased the entire business, and conducted it successfully ever since. He was a director of the Farmers National Bank from its foundation, and for the past five years was a member of the Town Council. He was an efficient councilman and a good citizen.

He is survived by his widow, and one son Robert at home, and a daughter, Mrs. Dr. Bitner, of Allentown. Funeral services were held at the house this morning, Rev. E. R. Heckman officiating, and the remains were taken on the 11:28 Reading train to Allentown for interment. [The Columbian, (Bloomsburg, Pa.), March 10, 1910, p.1.]