OBIT: Frank S. BLACK, Sr., 1979, Garrett RD, Somerset County, PA
  
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  FRANK S. BLACK SR.
  
    Frank S. Black Sr., 84, Garrett RD 1, died Feb. 24, 1979 in
  Meyersdale Community Hospital.  He was born Sept. 1, 1894 in
  Meyersdale, a son of the late Frank B. and Flora Snyder Black.
    He is survived by his widow Elizabeth (Matthews) Black and these
  children.  Frank S. Jr., married to the former Barbara Onderchek, of
  Bethesda, Md.; Ann, wife of John R. Place of Poolesville, Md.;
  Elizabeth, wife of R. Coy O'Connor of Era, Texas; Virginia, wife of
  Dale P. O'Connor, of Winchester Va.; and Miss Catherine Saville of
  Dallas, Texas; 10 grandchildren.  He was preceded in death by two
  brothers, William H. and John B. and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Philson.
    He graduated from J. Lawrenceville Prep.  School and Carnegie
  Mellon School of engineering, was a veteran of WWI, serving as a 2nd
  Lt. in France; was a life member and Past Commander of the Charles E.
  Kelly American Legion, a prominent farmer and leading force in
  establishing the Holestein Freeze Club in Somerset Co.  During WWII
  he served in the capacity of engineer at Martin Air Craft Co. at
  Baltimore, Md.
    He was a member of St. Philip and James Catholic Church.
    Friends were received in the Leckemby Funeral Home.  Funeral Mass
  was held Feb. 27, 1979 at St. Philip and James Catholic Church with
  Father Clark George officiating.  Interment, in Union Cemetery. 
  Military grave side rites by the joined Veterans organizations.
    The family requests expressions of sympathy to be in the form of
  donation to the Charles E. Kelly Post Building Fund.
  
  The Republic, March 1, 1979
  
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