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- The Star Democrat - Partial Obituary
Joan A. Bassett-Powell
Chestertown - Joan Alice Bassett-Powell, daughter of Charles and Jennie Gage, died peacefully Saturday, July 31, at Heron Point in Chestertown. She was 91.
She was born Nov. 11, 1918, in Bilbao, Spain, where her father was the British Naval attache. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thurstan, in 1991. They moved from England to the United States in 1982 to be with their two children and grandchildren. During her lifetime, she pursued a career in commercial art and portraiture before becoming a full-time homemaker. As a young mother, she endured the London Blitz during World War II.
She is survived by her daughter, Patricia Bliss of Oxford, Md.; her son Bruce of Victoria, Texas; four grandchildren, Georgina, Thomas, Stuart and William; and six great-grandchildren.
The New York Times
30 September 1990
Miss Bliss and William Marshall 3rd Are Married in Chestertown, Maryland
Georgina Bassett Bliss, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hooker Bliss of Worton, Maryland, was married yesterday to William Richmond Marshall 3rd, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Swan Marshall 3rd of Harbour Island, the Bahamas. The Rev. Gregory S. Straub performed the Episcopal ceremony at Emmanuel Church in Chestertown, Maryland.
Mrs. Marshall, 26 years old, is the sales promotion manager for Guerlain in New York. She graduated from the Madeira School and the University of Vermont. Her father is the president of Hanover Container, a packaging concern in Hanover, Pennsylvania. She is a granddaughter of Thurstan Bassett-Powell of Chestertown, who retired as chairman of The Daily Telegraph in London.
Mr. Marshall, 26, is an associate projects manager in the creative services department at the Polo/Ralph Lauren Corporation in New York. He graduated from Tabor Academy and St. Lawrence University. His father retired as the chairman of the Southern Bank in Cincinnati.
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