Person:Victor Bitter (1)

1926 !BIRTH: New York, Nassau Co., Town of Hempstead, Village of Seaford - 4 Jul 1904 - Born at home, delivered by Dr. Grant

1930 !CENSUS: New York, Nassau Co., Town of Hempstead, Village of Seaford - US Census son Victor H Bitter age 3, race: white, born in NY father Victor H Bitter age 25, born in NY, a furniture dealer mother Pauline G Bitter age 21, born in Ohio brother Richard H Bitter age 1, born in NY

!BIOGRAPHY: First lived in Seaford on Long Island's South shore. He told of rowing a rowboat all over "Great South Bay" (not sure of name). There is a nearby golf course, he caddied there to earn money. He was known as "Sonny" by his Mom and Dad. He attended Freeport High School and finished in three years because of the war so that he could enlist in the Navy at age 17. Paula visited the Seaford house with Aunt Dorie, she describes it as a small one story brown house with a crawl space underneath. There is a Catholic Church about one block away, Paula heard story that the only reason that they were Catholic is that the church was close and Grandpa and Grandma wanted their children to attend church. The house's present address is 2472 Cedar Street, Seaford.

07 Dec 1941 - US enters WWII on the bombing of Pearl Harbor

1943 !GRADUATION: New York, Nassau Co., Freeport - 18 Jun 1943 - Freeport High School (age 17)

1943 !MILITARY SERVICE: 21 Jul 1943 Served in US Navy SeaBees in WWII - stationed in the Phillipines. Operated powered barge until the propeller hit a coral reef. As there were no more shear pins, he was very unpopular as he was the helmsman.

02 Sep 1945 Japanese sign document of surrender on battleship in Tokyo bay

1946 Discharge - 21 Mar 1946 as BM2

1952 !RESIDENCE: New York, Wayne Co., Wolcott - Jun 1952 Wolcott, NY

1952 !RESIDENCE: New York, Wayne Co., Rose - Oct 1952 Rose, NY

1966 !RESIDENCE: Florida, Polk Co., Griffin - 1966 Lakeland, FL

!BIOGRAPHY: After returning from the Navy, worked on farms in the Pulaski, NY area. One of them was the Fraser farm, I remember visiting it when I was small. During this time, he took a week long short course at Cornell University that allowed him to become a milk tester. He thought enough of Cornell that he attended and obtained a degree in animal husbandry in a three year time span. While at Cornell, he met Laura Cassedy. With his wife Laura and infant child (me), we first lived in apartment in Veterans Place, Ithaca, New York. Next was an apartment in Wolcott, New York, at which time he worked for DHIA (Dairy Herd Improvement Association) as a milk tester. He then became Artificial Insemination technician for NYABC. He relocated the family to an 88 acre farm on Maunder Road, town of Rose, New York, He worked as an AI technician happily for severasl years and at the same time farmed the 88 acres. At some point, had first problems with mood disorder. Changed employer to ABC. Then in 1966 moved the family to a small citrus farm in Lakeland (town of Griffin), Florida.

1969 !DEATH: Florida, Polk Co., Griffin - 16 Dec 1969 - died at home - service 19 Dec 1969 in Lakeland at Gentry-Morrison Chapel - Clergyman Rev. LeBron Free

1970 !BURIAL: New York, Saratoga Co., Mechanicville - 23 Mar 1970 at 2 PM in Hudson View Cemetary, Mechanicville, NY

1. ↑ 1930 United States Federal Census.