OBIT: Paul E. HOOK, 1981, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  PAUL E. HOOK
  
    Paul E. Hook Sr., 63, of 119 Walnut Lane, West Newton, died Aug. 27,
  1981, in Westmoreland Hospital, Greensburg.
    He was born March 3, 1918, in Meyersdale, a son of the late Charles and
  Amanda Swearman Hook.
    He was preceded in death by a brother, Harry Hook.
    Surviving are his wife, Emma Krizner Hook; two daughters, Karen Peto of
  West Newton and Sheryl Gadani of Canonsburg; two sons, Paul Hook Jr. and
  Charles Hook, both of West Newton; two sisters, Clara Knieriem of Johnstown
  and Mary Houston of Meyersdale; two brothers, Fred Hook of Belle Vernon and
  Woodrow Hook of Hanford, Calif.; and five grandchildren.
    He was a retired employee of Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel, Monessen, and was
  a U.S. Army Air Force veteran of World War II.  He was a member of the Blyth
  Masonic Lodge No. 593, West Newton; the Consistory, Pittsburgh; the
  Ukrainian Club, Monessen; the Slovenic Singing Society, Collinsburg; and
  the United Steel Workers of America.
    Funeral services were held in the William McCauley Funeral Home with the
  Rev. Arthur R. Day Jr. officiating.  Interment West Newton Cemetery.
  
  The Republic, September 3, 1981
  
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