Suffolk City-Nansemond-Gloucester County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Sassman, John C., 1986 

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John Sassman 

  John Canton Sassman, 70, of Route 2, Box 320, Gloucester County, died Friday 
in Riverside Hospital, Newport News.  He was a native of Winona, Minn.  Mr. 
Sassman was a retired engineer from the Yorktown Naval Weapons Depot, and was 
a Roman Catholic.  He was the widower of Pearl Summers Sassman.  Surviving are 
two daughters, Elizabeth Ann Guthrie, of Hampton, and Peggy S. Pierce, of 
Suffolk; and two sisters, Mrs. Marjorie S. Johnson, Duluth, Minn., and Sister 
Michon, of the Order of Benedictine, in Lacy, Wash.  Also surviving are four 
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. 

  A mass of the resurrection will be celebrated Tuesday at 10 a.m. in St. 
Mary's Catholic Church by the Rev. Christian Haydinger.  Burial services will 
be conducted by the Rev. J. Allen Johnson, in Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens. 
The family will be in the Sidney F. Harrell Funeral Home Monday night from 
7:30 to 8:30. 


John Canton SASSMAN, IV, retired Yorktown Naval Weapons Depot engineer, 
b. 17 Jul 1915, Winona, MN*, d. 28 Mar 1986, Newport News, 
interred in Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens*, Driver, 1 Apr 1986, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 64, No. 76, Sun., Mar. 30, 1986, p. 2 

*Additional information: 

An obit also appeared in the "Daily Press," Mar. 30, 1986. 

Photos of his grave marker - added by Joe Colby - are posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #112273064. 

D.Cert. 86-010686 

His WW-II draft card gives b. Duluth, MN. 


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