A Belle Vernon sailor lost his life on the bomb-torn USS Franklin. He was Aviation Ordnanceman Third Class Paul Grata;27;husband of Mrs.Joan Netspoon Grata of Broad Avenue;Belle Vernon. Mrs.Grata received a telegram on April 6;stating her husband had been killed in action and buried at sea with full military honors. A/O Grata had been in service 17 months and overseas for 11 months. Besides hie wife;he is survived by a young son;Paul;Jr.;his parents;Mr.and Mrs.William Grata of Portage;four sisters;Mary;Mildred;Lucy and Helen. Two brothers also survive;Sgt.Stanley in Germany and Pvt.Joseph in Italy. The family formerly resided in Monessen.

Mrs.Jane Edwards Weiberg died at the home of her daughter;Mrs.Robert Price in Allenport;August 27;1945;at 6:35 a.m. She was a member of the Belle Vernon Christian Church. She is survived by one daughter;Mrs.Robert Price;three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Friends will be received at the Melenyzer Funeral Home. Services will be held there Thursday;August 30;1945;at 2 p.m.;in charge of Rev.John Bowers of the Fayette City Christian church. Interment will follow in Belle Vernon Cemetery. Chas.L.and Edwin Melenyzer are funeral directors.

Charles Federer Jr.;74;of Belle Vernon R.D.;died Friday;Sept.21;2001;in Frick Hospital. He was born Dec.22;1926;in Stockdale;son of the late Charles Sr.and Margaret Chucuddy Federer. He was retired from Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp.;Allenport Plant. He was preceded in death by his wife;Grace Kelly Federer;a brother Clarence Federer;and a sister;Rose Aldous. Surviving include his brother;Robert Federer Sr.;of Cadiz;Ohio;and sisters;Laurette Blades of Roscoe;Esther Hallam of Charleroi and Irene Panepinto of Port Charlotte;Fla. Friends will be received in the ELEY McCRORY FUNERAL HOME INC.;334 Main St.;Fayette City;on Monday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. and Tuesday until 11 a.m.;when funeral services will take place with the Rev.George Rath officiating. Interment will follow in Belle Vernon Cemetery. Belle Vernon American Legion will hold services in the funeral home Monday at 7:30 p.m.