OBIT: Samuel ARNONE, 1947, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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SAMUEL ARNONE

  Samuel Arnone, 59, retired shoe repair shop operator, died Thursday night, 
March 6, at 11 o'clock in the Hazel McGilvery Hospital as the result of a 
gunshot wound in the head, authorities said was self-inflicted.
  Dr. A. M. Uphouse, Stoystown, Somerset County coroner said that Mr. Arnone 
shot himself with a .32 caliber revolver about 7 o'clock, Thursday evening, in 
the upstairs hallway of his home.  Melancholy due to ill health caused him to 
take his life.
  His wife was down stairs when she heard the shot.  Upon rushing up and seeing 
what had happened she called for help and sent for a doctor.  The wounded man 
was rushed to the hospital where he died a few hours later.
  Mr. Arnone had been in ill health since last September when he suffered two 
slight strokes, which left him slightly paralyzed.  He was forced to give up his 
business, and although recently he was able to be up and around the house, he 
continued to suffer from high blood pressure and was at times despondent.  His 
family, however, never had any cause to think that he was contemplating suicide.
  Mr. Arnone, a native of Italy, came to America in his youth and for a number 
of years worked at coal digging in the old Shaw Mines of the Consolidated Coal 
Company.  Later he learned the shoe repairing trade and set up a shoe repair 
shop in Meyersdale in 1917.  His first shop was on Main Street below the Second 
National Bank Building.  For the past 23 years his shop has been located at 116 
Center Street.  He had an up-to-date line of machinery and conducted a very 
successful business.  After his break in health in September, he sold the 
business to Carlo Nunnarri of Jennerstown.
  Besides his wife, Carmela (Russo) Arnone, he is survived by a fine family of 
children, three sons and two daughters.  Phillip, a talented musician, served 18 
months overseas, in the E. T. O., with an Army Regiment band.  At present he is 
employed at the George Washington Hotel, Washington, Pa.  The second son, Joseph 
spent 12 months overseas with the U.S. Army in China and was stationed in 
Shanghai.  At present he is at home.  The third son Anthony is a school boy.  
Daughter Catherine is a first year student at Indiana State Teachers College, 
and Beatrice is a junior in Meyersdale High School.
  Funeral services for Mr. Arnone were held at 9 a.m., Monday morning in SS. 
Philip and James Church, Rev. Father Houghton officiating.  Attending the 
funeral obsequies were the deceased's two sisters, Concetta and Ageline, both 
married, of Akron, O., and his brother Anthony of New York.  He has five sisters 
living in Italy.
  Pall bearers were Joseph Spataro, James Toscanno, Nat LaCavera, Sam Angelo, 
Tom Bruno and Dominic DeFibo.

Meyersdale Republican, March 13, 1947