Family: Speranza, Bernard V / Grant, Clara (F47413)

• Male Speranza, Bernard V

  
  

  Birth	15 Feb 1895	Aquila, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy	LDS Ordinances	Date	Place
  Christening			Baptized (LDS)
  Death	22 Apr 1977	Munster, Lake, Indiana, USA	Endowed (LDS)
  Burial			Sealed P (LDS)
  Marriage			Sealed S (LDS)
  Father
  Mother

  
  

  Female Grant, Clara

  
  

  Birth	11 Nov 1905	Saltsburg, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA	LDS Ordinances	Date	Place
  Christening			Baptized (LDS)
  Death	28 May 1940	Wilkinsburg, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA	Endowed (LDS)
  Burial			Sealed P (LDS)
  Father
  Mother

  
  

  Female + Speranza, Norma Jean

  
  

  Birth	30 Sep 1935	Avonmore, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA	LDS Ordinances	Date	Place
  Christening			Baptized (LDS)
  Death	3 Apr 2021	Shadyside, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA	Endowed (LDS)
  Burial	Aft 3 Apr 2021	Avonmore, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA	Sealed P (LDS)
  Spouse	Hoak, Donald Albert | F38808
  Marriage	27 Dec 1961	Marshall Islands, USA	Sealed S (LDS)

  
  

  Male Speranza, Dominick V

  
  

  Birth	28 Feb 1927	Avonmore, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA	LDS Ordinances	Date	Place
  Christening			Baptized (LDS)
  Death	27 Dec 2012	Washington Twp, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, USA	Endowed (LDS)
  Burial	Abt 30 Dec 2012	Avonmore, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA	Sealed P (LDS)

  
  

  Female Speranza, Alice

  
  

  Birth	25 Jun 1925	Avonmore, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA	LDS Ordinances	Date	Place
  Christening			Baptized (LDS)
  Death	5 Mar 1987	Shadyside, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA	Endowed (LDS)
  Burial			Sealed P (LDS)

  
  

  Male Speranza, Earle B

  
  

  Birth	22 Nov 1921	Pennsylvania, USA	LDS Ordinances	Date	Place
  Christening			Baptized (LDS)
  Death	5 Nov 1995	Avonmore, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA	Endowed (LDS)
  Burial			Sealed P (LDS)

  
  

  Male Speranza, Bernard Eugene

  
  

  Birth	26 Nov 1930	Avonmore, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA	LDS Ordinances	Date	Place
  Christening			Baptized (LDS)
  Death	23 Nov 2002		Endowed (LDS)
  Burial			Sealed P (LDS)

  
  

• Notes

  Issue, jt: 20190702HAv- Posted 08 Aug 2014 by If one were to write the true life story of Jill Corey as a movie scenario, it would be too fantastic to be believed. Certainly nothing more dramatic could be dreamed up than the simple truth about this coal miner's daughter who lost her mother at age four. At eighteen, she found herself on the cover of LIFE magazine and destined to be a full-fledged recording star, as well as a radio and television personality, all as the result of one miraculous day in New York City. For Norma Jean Speranza, the youngest of five children, life began routinely enough, in Avonmore, Pennsylvania (population 1300), a coal mining community forty miles east of Pittsburgh. Her first performances were not memorable, consisting of Carmen Miranda imitations rendered with gusto at family gatherings and in grade school amateur hours, where she recalls invariably coming in last place. That may be the only time in her life she would fail to finish near the top of any endeavor she would undertake.