Person:John Deschambeau (1)

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                                                  FATHER
                                     JOHN L. DESCHAMBEAU
                                               1884 - 1950

                                                OBITUARY
                      (Oswego Palladium-Times June 27, 1950)

Rome - John L. DesChambeau, 65, of 312 Kossuth St., died at 11 p.m. Tuesday (June 27, 1950)in his home. He had been ill for three years.

    A native of Oswego, he was born September 5, 1884, a son of Emory and

Margaret LaGoe DesChambeau. He married the former Mary Thompson, April 29, 1908 in St. Louis Church, Oswego.

    A Rome resident for 28 years, he was a machinist in the Rome Manfacturing

Company Division, Rome Copper and Brass Incorporated until three years ago when he retired because of ill health.

    Mr. DesChambeau was educated in Oswego schools and learned the machinist's trade in that city where he was employed by the Oswego Tool

Company. He was a member of St. Louis Church while a resident of Oswego.

    The family home was on North Division St.
    He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Mrs. John L. Gorski, Rome; five

sons all of Rome, Louis J., Emory G., Lawrence A., Joseph F. and S. Edward; four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Richard Bell, Leonia, N.J. and Miss Dorothy DesChambeau, Utica; three brothers, Lawrence A., Samuel E., Appleton and Foster, Rome and a number of cousins in Oswego.