Inc. 1967
Eight days after his wife succumbed to tularemia (rabbit fever),Jess B. Sisley,49,of Smithton R.D. No. 1,late Saturday November 29,1941,followed her in death from the same malady. He died in Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh. Mr. and Mrs. Sisley became ill two weeks ago after eating rabbits which had been shot in Greene County. Both were taken to the hospital and Mrs. Sisley died Friday, November 21 from tularemia and complications which developed bronchial pneumonia. Last week Mr. Sisley's condition turned critical and he died in a coma. Doctors said both deaths were caused by tularemia poisoning. Two daughters, Mrs. Edward Warren of Monongahela and Mrs. Charles Lipari of Pittsburgh;two sons, Robert M. of Clarksburg, W.Va.,and William M. of Shreveport, La.;five sisters, Mrs. Allie Phillips of Point Marion,Mrs. Ella Watkins of Aliquippa,Mrs. Ossie Killbach of Jacobs Creek,Mrs. Myrtle Lyons of Newell and Mrs, Mary Hines of Fayette City and two brothers, Joseph of Pitcairn and John Sisley of Uniontown,survive. Full military honors were conducted Tuesday afternoon for the World War veteran at the Toner funeral parlors at Belle Vernon. Rev. James N. Rainey,pastor of the Belle Vernon Christian Church,officiated. Burial was made next to his wife in Belle Vernon Cemetery.
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