Obituary
FRANK D. BRESETT, 88, SUCCUMBS
Frank David Bresett, 88, of 533 Proctor Ave., died at 7 p.m., Tuesday (Jan. 5, 1971) in Hepburn Hospital, where he was admitted Dec. 30. He had been ill for the past month.
The funeral will be Friday at 10:30 a.m. at St. John's church. The Rev. John R. Ramsy, rector, will officiate. Burial will be in the Ogdensburg Cemetery.
Calling hours at the Nichols Funeral Home will be at the convenience of friends beginning at 7 o'clock this evening.
Surviving Mr. Bresett are one son, Carlton E. Bresett, Ogdensburg, who is manager of the Ogdensburg office of the New York State Department of Labor, and a Commissioner of Education here; three grandsons and one granddaughter; and three foster children, William A. Klock, Mrs. John (Mildred) Groulx and Miss Myrtle Klock, all of Ogdensburg, who are nephew and nieces of Mr. Bresett's late wife.
Mr. Bresett was born at DePeyster, April 23, 1882, son of Joseph and Mary Simmons Bresett. He was one of 21 children of the latter by her two marriages.
On Nov. 12, 1902, Mr. Bresett married Ann Klock of Gouverneur, the cermony being performed in the Presbyterian Church in that village by the Rev. Charles L. Pick. Mrs. Bresett died Nov. 16, 1966.
Mr. Bresett farmed in the DePeyster area until 1950 when he began work as a carpenter for the MB Construction Co. He retired in 1965.
He was a member of St. John's Church (Episcopal), and of the Dads of Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Source: Ogdensburg Journal, Wednesday, January 6, 1971, pg 11.
