{"id":513,"date":"2019-05-08T20:27:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T20:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/?p=513"},"modified":"2019-05-08T20:27:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T20:27:56","slug":"roland-m-sawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Roland M. Sawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From the May 28, 1997 issue of The Country Chronicle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enfield, NH&#8211;Roland M. Sawyer, 75, died Monday, May 19, 1997 at the Lebanon Center of Genesis ElderCare following a longtime illness.  He was born to the late Phillip &amp; Lucy Mae (Williams) Sawyer.  He was a graduate of Kennett High School in Conway, NH and a U.S. Army Veteran of WWII.  A longtime resident of Enfield, he had been employed by the Baltic Mills of Enfield; and had been an electrician for Frank T. Cody Electric Company of Hanover and West Lebanon, and later for many years with Richard Electric of Hanover.  He was a member of the Lebanon Lodge of Elks B.P.O.E. #2099.  He enjoyed tending to his vegetable gardens and his berries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Survivors include:  Son, Richard L. Bill, Enfield; Sister, Marion Dragon, Haverhill; Sister, Beverly Cummings, Pepperill, MA; Sister, Barbara Fillian, Oakhurst, NH; Brother, Raymond Sawyer, Enfield; Bother, Clayton Sawyer, Barre, VT; 3 grandchildren, many nieces, nephews and cousins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was preceded in death by: Wife, Pansy H. (Smith) Sawyer, died Nov. 30, 1996: Sister, Martha Sawyer; Brother, Archie Sawyer; Brother, Arthur Sawyer; Brother, Ralph Sawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Memorial contributions may be made to: Norris Cotton Cancer Center, 1 Medical Center Dr., Lebanon, NH 03756.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arrangements were made by the Ricker Funeral Home, 56 School St., Lebanon, NH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the May 28, 1997 issue of The Country Chronicle Enfield, NH&#8211;Roland M. Sawyer, 75, died Monday, May 19, 1997 at the Lebanon Center of Genesis ElderCare following a longtime illness. He was born to the late Phillip &amp; Lucy Mae (Williams) Sawyer. He was a graduate of Kennett High School in Conway, NH and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/?p=513\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roland M. Sawyer<\/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":[6,48],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-enfield","tag-sawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","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=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}