Mrs.Martha M.Conrad;aged 89 years;died Wednesday;January 7;1942;at the home of her daughter;Mrs.Robert Sphar;1512 Marion avenue;following a lingering illness. Surviving are three daughters;Mrs.Robert (Nellie) Sphar;Mrs.Theresa Wilson;both of Monessen;and Mrs.Lottie Lakel of Fayette City;two sons;William Edward Conrad;of Columbus;Ohio and Charles R.Conrad;of Belle Vernon. A brother;Frank Partridge;of Dallas;Texas;and five grandchildren also survives. Friends are being received at the home on Marion avenue until Friday when the remains will be taken to the Toner Funeral Home;626 Broad avenue;Belle Vernon;where funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon;January 10;at 2:30 o’clock. Rev.R.F.Steininger;pastor of St.Paul’s Lutheran Church;Monessen;will officiate. Interment will follow in the Belle Vernon Cemetery.

Petro Calvelli;aged 81 years;of 1117 McKean Avenue;died at his late home at 5:30 a.m. on Friday;November 28;1941 after an illness of four months. Friends are being received at the late home until time for funeral services at 9 o’clock Monday morning from the home and additional rites later at the Mother of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church. Rev.Gregory Paonessa will officiate. Interment in Belle Vernon Cemetery. Michael A.Melinchak is funeral director.

Allegedly because he had been given a constable’s notice that he would lose his home if he did not pay his back rent;which amounted to $32;Paul Colecchi;57;committed suicide today;Tuesday;June 24;1941;by hanging himself by the neck in the bedroom of his three-room apartment at 525 Forest street. The man’s body was found at one o’clock this afternoon by neighbors who told patrolmen Antnony Santora and Alex Snyder they hadn’t seen him since they heard a loud noise in his apartment this morning;between 7:30 and 8 o’clock. Mr.Colecchi;who had been employed in the cleaning house in the Pittsburgh Steel Company plant here until four months ago;committed suicide by tieing a thin rope aroung his neck;then placing the other part of the rope through a hole over a door;standing on a chair and then kicking the chair away. Neighbors told police that Colecchi must have contemplated the act Saturday when they heard him drilling a hole in the wall of his bedroom. The man came to this country from Italy in 1898 and had lived in Monessen most of the time since. His wife died three years ago. He is survived by his mother in Europe;and two brothers;Nunzio Colecchi;of 312 Third street and another brother in McKeesport. Funeral services will be held June 26;1941;at 2 o’clock from Check’s Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Belle Vernon Cemetery.

BURIED IN NORTHEAST CORNER GRAVE BORN IN 1868 HIS NAME IS ON THE SAME MARKER AS MARTHA J.CAMPBELL.