OBIT: Melvin James "Joe" GRACE, 1989, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Meyersdale Library Transcribed and proofread by Richard Boyer. Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ _______________________________________________ GRACE Melvin James (Joe) Grace, 68, Broadway Street, Meyersdale, died June 4, 1989, in Meyersdale Community Hospital. Born Aug. 8, 1920, in Fayette County, son of the late John R. and Pearl (Shaffer) Grace. Preceded in death by brothers, Emerson, Glenn and Merle, and sister, Helen Nicholson. Survived by three children: Shirley Whipkey, Carol Williamson and Jo Ann Hall, all of Wooster, Ohio, 10 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. Brother of Tilden, Greensburg; Denver, Ligonier; Goldie Beckner, Somerset; John, Irwin; Mabel Keefe, United; Myrtle Wadsworth, Greensburg; Ruby Fritz, Plum Borough; and Gilbert, Beaver Falls. Carpenter by occupation. Friends will be received from 2-9 p.m. Monday at Wilbur D. Miller Funeral Home, where funeral service will be conducted Tuesday at 1 p.m. Rev. Roger Forry officiating. Interment, Mt. Olive Cemetery, Connellsville. Somerset Daily American, June 5, 1989. [G0870]