{"id":309,"date":"2019-01-05T19:07:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T19:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/?p=309"},"modified":"2019-01-05T19:07:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T19:07:12","slug":"maurice-alphonse-dessert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Alphonse Dessert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from the November 8, 1995 issue of The Country Chronicle<\/p>\n<p>Enfield, NH&#8211;Maurice A.\u00a0 Dessert, 77, died Saturday, October 28, 1995 at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH following a long illness.\u00a0 He was born Lebanon, NH\u00a0 April 24, 1918, the son of the late Henry &amp; Marie (Lambert) Dessert.\u00a0 He was married to Barbara Sherwood (Follansbee) April 29, 1946.\u00a0 He was an Army Veteran of WWII serving in the European Theatre and was a former member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.\u00a0 He was a member of St.\u00a0 Helena&#8217;s Parish of Enfield; the Montcalm Grange; The Enfield Historical Society; and a former member of the Piermont Fire Department.\u00a0 He had been employed as a woodman; a former; and retired as a custodian for Dartmouth National Bank in 1983.\u00a0 Mr.\u00a0 Dessert always enjoyed entertaining family and friends at his camp in Newbury, VT.<\/p>\n<p>Friends called at the Ricker Funeral Home in Lebanon on Thursday evening from 7-9 p.m.\u00a0 A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Friday morning at St.\u00a0 Helena&#8217;s Church in Enfield with a burial following in the Lakeview Cemetery in Enfield.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial contributions in memory of Mr.\u00a0 Dessert were made to the Enfield F.A.S.T. Squad.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include:\u00a0 his wife, Barbara S. Dessert of Enfield, NH; a son, Gui Dessert of White, GA; Everett Dessert of Woodstock, GA; a daughter, April Massarene of San Diego, CA; a daughter, Aleta Sinclair of Broken Arrow, OK; a daughter Cecilia Dessert of Brattleboro, VT; a daughter, Elise Hartman of Milford, PA; a brother, George Dessert of New Haven, CT; a brother, Rene Dessert of Meriden, NH; a brother, Francis Dessert of Lebanon, NH; a sister, Agnes Colburn of Orange City, FL; a sister, Evelyn Drake of Zephyrhillis FL; a sister, Edwidge Potter of Concord, NH; a sister, Teresa Poissant of Long Beach, CA; ten grandchildren, one great-grandchild, many nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the November 8, 1995 issue of The Country Chronicle Enfield, NH&#8211;Maurice A.\u00a0 Dessert, 77, died Saturday, October 28, 1995 at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH following a long illness.\u00a0 He was born Lebanon, NH\u00a0 April 24, 1918, the son of the late Henry &amp; Marie (Lambert) Dessert.\u00a0 He was married to Barbara &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/?p=309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maurice Alphonse Dessert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[145,6],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dessert","tag-enfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}