Private John V.Carson of Pricedale died in the Valley Forge Hospital;Phoenixville;Pa.;Thursday;July 2;1953. Private Carson was serving with the United State Army in Korea when he became ill. He was flown to Japan;and later brought back to the states and admitted to the Valley Forge Hospital. He is survived by his parents;Mr.and Mrs.Finley Carson;three brothers;Floyd and James of Pricedale and Private Finley Carson Jr.;U.S.A.;stationed at Camp Breckenridge;Kentucky;and one sister;Mrs.Ida Gordon of Pricedale. Friends are being received at the late home. Service will be held at the Antioch Baptist Church;Monday afternoon;July 6;1953;at 2 p.m.;and interment will follow in the Soldiers Plot of the Belle Vernon Cemetery. Military rites are in charge of the Joseph Ford Post of Monessen. Harold R.Toner is the funeral director.

The Monessen Juvenile Officer and a leader in civic and fraternal organizations;Rev.H.A.S.Cooke;pastor of the Union Baptist Church here;died suddenly of a heart attack Tuesday evening;April 21;1953. Rev.Cooke;who came to Monessen nine years ago from McKees Rocks;died at 9:45 p.m.at the office of his physician;Dr.George Crump. He was 54 years of age. He had suffered a number of minor attacks in the past few months. A graduate of Tuskeegee Institute;Ala.;Rev.Cooke had previously taught school in Pensacola;Fla. He was quite active in civic and fraternal circles in the district;having held a number of offices. He was chaplain of the District Council of Westmoreland County;American Legion;commander of the Joseph H.Ford Post 693;American Legion;past president of the Monessen Ministerial Association;corresponding secretary of the Youghiogheny Baptist Association;member of the Masonic Order 79;of Monessen. He was also secretary of the Monessen Midget Athelic League;a member of the Community Chest;director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and institutional head of Boy Scout Troop 1;Monessen. Rev.Cooke had served as City Juvenile officer fo the past six years. He was appointed by Mayor Hugo J.Parente. He is survived by his wife;Mrs.Carra Cooke;one daughter;Mrs.Ula Ford of Pitsburgh and a nephew;Carlton Wilson;also of Pittsburgh. Friends are being received at the Carter Funeral Home 545 McMahon avenue;until Friday;April 24;when the remains will be taken to the Union Baptist Church to lie in state until time for funeral services on Saturday;April 25;at 11 a.m. Rev.W.E.McClellan;of Uniontown will officiate at the funeral services. Interment will be in Belle Vernon Cemetery. DuBoise H.Carter;funeral director.

Lloyd John Curnow;aged 35 years;Belle Vernon;R.D.3;died Monday;April 13;at 8:45 a.m.in Veterans Hospital;Aspinwall. He was a veteran of World War II;having served with the U.S.Navy;and had been employed at the American Steel and Wire Co.plant in Donora. Surviving are his parents;Mr.and Mrs.W.H.Curnow;of Webster;his wife;Mrs.Constance Curnow;three sons;John LLoyd;William Howard;Joseph Allen;two sisters;Mrs.Dorothy Byers;of Belle Vernon;and Mrs.Irene Coven of Kittanning;three brothers;James H.of Belle Vernon;Jesse of West Palm Beach;Fla.;and William B.of Lebanon;Mo.;and his grandmother;Mrs.Francis Nelson of Belle Vernon. Friends will be received at the Toner Funeral Home. Services will be held there Thursday;April 16;1953;at 2 p.m.;in charge of Rev.J.Nelson Jackaway;and interment will follow in Belle Vernon Cemetery. Harold R.Toner is the funeral director.