Firman Ray;aged 73 years;died Thursday evening;August 20;1936;at 8:45 o’clock at his home in Highland avenue and Fourth street;North Charleroi. Surviving are his wife;Augustine and the following daughters and sons;Mrs.Charles Teulle;Mrs.Adrian Ray and Mrs.James Bayens;of Lock Four;Mrs.Joseph Pensis of Holidays Cove;W.Va.;Mrs.Jean Sepesky;of Belle Vernon;Mrs.Margaret Angioletti;of Monongahela;Augustine and Samuel Ray at home and Marion and Joseph Ray;of Lock Four. Funeral services will be held in St.Jerome’s Roman Catholic Church Sunday afternoon;August 23;at 2 o’clock. Interment will be in Belle Vernon Cemetery.

Samuel Rhodes;Jr.;37;of Vestaburg;was instantly killed at 2:15;Thursday afternoon;;December 6;1935;while at work in the Vestaburg mine of the Vesta Coal Company. He was a machine man in the mine and was struck by a car in the mine. Surviving are his wife;Mrs.Linnie Gauden Rhodes;formerly of this city;and three small children. Mine officials were unable to state full details of the accident but it was learned a mine car had passed over him. He formerly lived in Belle Vernon. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at two o’clock from the late home with interment following in the Belle Vernon Cemetery.

The death Monday morning;July 15;1935;at 1:30 o’clock in the Charleroi-Monessen hospital of Mrs.Valeria Balmer Rossi;aged 31 years;was the first in the family of twelve children of William and Lydia M.Balmer;of Allenport.  Mrs.Rossi;wife of George Rossi;also a resident of Allenport;died from complications which followed childbirth.  The infant girl;died shortly after birth.  Mrs.Rossi was born September 15;1904 in Allenport;Pa.  She was a member of  the Allenport Methodist Episcopal Church and was well known to a host of friends in the district. Surviving are her husband;one son George Jr.her parents and the following sisters and brothers;Mrs.Anderson;Mrs.Henry Flint and Mrs.Benjamin Southwell;of Los Angeles;California;Mrs.George Shout;of Evans City;Mrs.Pat McManus;of California;Mrs.Philip Meh;of Charleroi;Mrs.John Riley;of Allenport;Vernon Balmer; of Charleroi;Charles;Earl and Milton Balmer;of Allenport.  Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the home of the deceased’s parents.  Interment will be in Belle Vernon Cemetery.  

Mrs.Emma Innocenti Rossi;of Allenport;aged 63 years;died in the Charleroi-Monessen hospital;Wednesday;May 22;1935;at 11:55 a.m.;of complications;following a lengthy illness. She was born in Italy;on April 15;1872. She is survived by her husband;Italo Rossi;two sons;Albert C.;of Maple View;and George L.;of Allenport;one daughter;Mrs.Mary Guerra;of Monessen;her father;Oresta Innocenti;in Italy;one brother;Anselmo Innocenti;of Pittsburgh;and several brothers and sisters in Italy. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the late home in Allenport;in charge of Rev.G.Meade Dougherty;pastor of the M.E.Church;of Charleroi. Interment will be in the Belle Vernon Cemetery.