OBIT: Forrest J. PRATT, 1980, Meyersdale RD, Somerset County, PA
  
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  FORREST J. PRATT
  
    Forrest J. Pratt, 58, of Meyersdale RD 4, was dead on arrival June
  23, 1980 at Memorial Hospital.
    He was born at Jamestown, Pa., and was a son of the late Joseph
  Michael Pratt and Lucinda Mae (Weyant) Pratt Trimble.
    He was a member of the Mason-Dixon Saddle Club, Mason-Dixon
  Four-Wheelers, an Air Force veteran of World War II, where he
  attained the rank of first lieutenant, and a self-employed farmer and
  painter.
    He is survived by two sons, Wayne Pratt, Elizabeth, N.J.; Brain
  Pratt, Johnstown; two daughters, Miss Cheryl Pratt, Cresson; Mrs.
  Deborah Shandor, Galveston, Tex.; two halfbrothers, Francis Trimble,
  Danville, Calif.; James Trimble, Mt. Savage; two sisters, Mrs.
  Margaret Yingling, Jeanette; Mrs. Ida Jane Boor, Meyersdale RD 4,
  with whom he resided, and one halfsister, Mrs. Patricia Witt,
  Wellersburg.
    Friends were received at the Silcox-Merritt Funeral Residence.
    Services were conducted in the funeral home by the Rev. Richard E.
  Manning.  Interment will be in Rest Lawn Memorial Gardens, LaVale.
  
  The Republic, June 26, 1980
  
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