(OSV News) -- By any measure, Louis Anthony "Lou" Conter, a Catholic hero of World War II who died April 1 at his home in Grass Valley, California, at age 102, led a celebrated life. Conter's funeral Mass will be celebrated April 23 at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Grass Valley, followed by burial with full military honors. Born in Ojibwa, Wisconsin, on Sept. 13, 1921, Conter graduated from high school in Colorado. He escaped a hardscrabble life -- at age 7, he hunted rabbits in Kansas, where his family was living, in order to provide dinner -- and a job in a Hormel meatpacking plant by enlisting in the Navy in 1939. He served for 28 years, retiring at…