OBIT: Valentine LARESA, 1902, Claridge, Westmoreland County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/westmoreland/ ____________________________________________ During a drunken fight Christmas evening at Claridge, a mining village on the Manor Valley railroad in Westmoreland county, Valentine Laresa was struck on the head with a beer glass thrown by a fellow countryman named Tony Barto and so badly inured that he died Friday morning. He was aged thirty-five and married. Barto had fled the county. Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa., Friday, January 2, 1903