Thomas J.Sims;aged 56 years;died Tuesday night;June 27;1939;at 11:30 o’clock at the home of his daughter;Mrs.Margaret Hewitt;402 Grant street;Belle Vernon;following an illness of five months. He had been employed by the Belle Vernon;Monessen and Fayette City street railway company since 1905 until the time the company discontinued operations several years ago. Mr.Sims is survived by two daughters;Mrs.Margaret Hewitt and Miss Jean Sims;of Belle Vernon;and a son;Edward Sims;of Charleroi. Five grandchildren also survive. Mrs.Sims preceded her husband in death a number of years ago. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon;June 30;at 2:30 o’clock from the Hewitt home;in charge of Rev.Edwin G.Sloan;pastor of the Presbyterian church of Belle Vernon. Interment will follow in the Belle Vernon Cemetery.

Lulu M.Sheets;wife of George Sheets;died at her home;Lakewood;Ohio;Tuesday;June 6;1939;at 7:30 a.m.;after a lingering illness. She was born and reared in Belle Vernon. Surviving are her mother;Mrs.Maude Toohey;of Chicago;her husband and two sons;Clayton and George of Lakewood;a daughter;Mrs.Elizabeth Eismer;also of Lakewood;and two grandchildren. Three sisters;Mrs.Margaret Callahan;of Belle Vernon;Mrs.Harriet White;of Pittsburgh;and Mrs.Eva Yaple;of Chicago;also survive. Funeral services will be held at the Branch and Kauffman mortuary home in Lakewood tonight Wednesday;June 7;1939 at 7 o’clock. The remains will then be brought to the home of Mr.Alice Lowman;226 Main street;Belle Vernon;where friends will be received. Funeral services will be conducted on Friday;June 9;at 2 p.m.in charge of Rev.J.Meade Daugherty of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Belle Vernon;with interment in the Belle Vernon Cemetery.

Mrs.Anna Solak;aged 85 years;died Saturday afternoon;February 25;1939;at her home in Belle Vernon;following an illness of two weeks with pneuonia. She was born in Czceho-Slovakia and was a member of the St.Cyril and Methodious Church in Charleroi. Surviving is one daughter;Mrs.Ann Kovack;of Belle Vernon. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock from the Catholic Church with Father Sedlak officiating. Interment will follow in the Belle Vernon cemetery. Friends will be received prior to the funeral at the home of the daughter;902 Graham street;Belle Vernon.

John J.Stevenson;aged 57 years;died at 7 o’clock Friday morning;Feb.10;1939;at his home;324 Oneida street;after an illness of six months. For the past ten days his condition had been critical. Mr.Stevenson was born in Elizabeth;Pa.;and was educated in the parochial schools of McKeesport. He came to Monessen in 1902;and for a period of over 20 years was employed as bricklayer foreman at the Page Steel & Wire company. He also served a term as street commissioner;and at the time he was taken ill;in August of last year;was in the employ of the Pittsburgh Steel company as senior mason foreman. He was a member of St.Leonard’s Church and a fourth degree member of the Knights of Columbus. Surviving are his wife;Elizabeth Currie Stevenson;and three children;Mrs.Miriam Edwards;John F.Stevenson and Robert Stevenson. One grandchild;Gloria Jean Edwards;also survives;along with his mother;Mrs.Catherine Stevenson;of Elizabeth;one brother;Ambrose Stevenson of Canton;Ohio;and the following sisters;Mrs.Rose Weiley of Rockwood;Mrs.Jean Leffler of Scottdale;Mrs.Mary Haben of Pittsburgh;Mrs.Agnes Bennett of Elizabeth;Mrs.Margaret Tatach;Monessen and Mrs.Katherine Keefer of Monessen. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 8 o’clock from St.Leonard’s Church;with interment following in the Belle Vernon Cemetery.