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    1. LAUREL EDUCATOR TAKEN IN DEATH ...
    2. Don Sasser
    3. LAUREL EDUCATOR TAKEN IN DEATH Laurel County has lost one of its greatest educators. Mr. Lynn Nantz Sasser of Route 4, London, Kentucky, died Thursday, March 1, at his home. He was fifty-nine years old. Mr. Sasser leaves his wife, Mrs. Katherine Williams Sasser, sons: Lynn Dell Sasser of Lexington, KY, presently studying toward a Ph.D. degree at the University of Kentucky; Rick Sasser, of London who attended Sue Bennett College and is now associated with Mutual of New York Insurance; and daughter Mrs. Sharon S. McNeeley of Lafollette, TN, a teacher at LaFollette High School and graduate student at the University of Tennessee. He also leaves his mother, Mrs. Ethel N. Sasser; a brother, Mr. John G. Sasser: and a granddaughter, Leslie Lynn Sasser. Mr. Sasser was the Adult Sunday School teacher at Slate Hill Baptist Church where he had been a member for 40 years. For the last five years he had served as treasurer for the church. Mr. Sasser, a native of Laurel Co., where he was born in 1914, had spent his entire life in Kentucky He descended from a family of educators. His father, the late J. I. Sasser, had a teaching career in Georgia before he returned to Laurel County to teach at Sasser Elementary, a school made possible by a land donation from Mr. Sasser's grandfather, the late Mr. John P. Sasser I received this from Shirley Martin. Shirley is a descendent of Barbara Jane Sasser b. May 16, 1858 Mr. Sasser was her science / biology teacher.....

    08/16/1997 12:45:50