OBIT: Herbert Elton ROBERTS, 1999, native of Acosta, Somerset County, PA
  
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  ROBERTS
  
  Herbert Elton Roberts, 74, of Chattanooga, Tenn., passed away on
  Monday, Dec. 29, 1997, at his residence.  He was born in Acosta, Pa.,
  on Sept. 30, 1923, and was the son of the late Horace and Bertha
  Roberts.  Surviving are his wife, Kathleen (Parsons) Roberts; two
  stepdaughters, Margaret Flowers of Corbin, Ky., and Patricia Sisseck
  of Tulsa, Okla.; one stepson, Chauncey Bailey III of Greenville,
  Miss.; 11 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren; and two
  sisters, Eleanor Ash of Somerset and Eyleen Beistel of Tampa, Fla.
  Mr. Roberts had lived in Chattanooga for the last 19 years.  He was a
  private first class with the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II
  and a member of the American Legion and was Presbyterian by faith.
  The family received friends at the Donald G. Ford Funeral Home,
  Grafton, W. Va., on Thursday.  Graveside military rites will be
  conducted at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 2, at the West Virginia National
  Cemetery, Pruntytown, W Va.  Interment, West Virginia National
  Cemetery.  The military rites will be conducted at by the VFW Memorial
  City Post 3081, American Legion Taylor County Post 12 and the DAV
  Chapter 24 of Grafton.
  
  Daily American, January 2, 1999
  
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