OBIT: Ben BASSETTI, 1972, formerly of Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA
  
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  BEN BASSETTI
  
    Ben Bassetti, 59, of Youngstown, Ohio, formerly of Meyersdale, recently
  died of a heart attack in St. Elizabeth Hospital there.
    Born in Meyersdale, March 25, 1913, he was a son of Frank and Mary
  (Acciroili) Bassetti, moving to Youngstown in 1927.
    Long active in Youngstown sports, Bassetti was manager and sponsor of a
  baseball club there for many years.  He scouted for the Pittsburgh Pirates
  and sponsored many young boxers in Ohio. Operator of the Home Club Caf‚ in
  Youngstown, he was a veteran of World War II, a director of the Ohio
  Baseball Congress, and a member of Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church there.
    Surviving are his wife, the former Ann Petras, whom he married in 1940;
  two sons, John and Frank Bassetti, and a daughter, Dorothy Popio, all of
  Youngstown; two grandchildren; three brothers, Alexander and August
  Bassetti, both of Liberty Township; and Anthony of Hubbard, Ohio; also two
  sisters, Mrs. John Roseman and Mrs. Vincent Tavolario, both of
  Youngstown.  A brother, Fred, died in 1967.
    Funeral service was held in Ohio.
  
  Meyersdale Republican, December 14, 1972
  
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