Here is an obit for your great-grandfather: LOUNSBURY   JOHN     H         born: 07/01/1902      mother: NELSON                         M                        died: KERN  Delano   01/06/1960      SS# 548-56-4968             age: 57yrs <A HREF="mailto:ksbreit1@home.com">ksbreit1@home.com</A>  (Sherlai Breitling) Bakersfield Californian, Friday, June 8, 1960 Lounsbury, John Herbert - funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Masonic Temple, 1920 18th St. for John Herbert Lounsbury, 57, 417 17th St., who died Jan. 6, in a Bakersfield hospital. Meudell Lodge 695 will officiate with George Uhler as worshipful master. Interment will follow in the Masonic section in Union Cemetery. The deceased was a native of Tennessee and had lived in Bakersfield for 39 years. He was, for 26 years, a Lieutenant with the Bakersfield Police Department, having retired only a year ago. At present he was a deputy sheriff serving as dispatcher for the Sheriffs Office. He was a member of Meudell Lodge 695 F&AM, the municipal Motorcycle Association, Kern County Shrine Club, Masonic Order of Scottish Rite, retired member of Bakersfield Police Benefit Association, Southern California Scafo Fingerprint Association, Kern County employees Benefit Association and State Private Investigators Association. Survivors include his widow Florence; son John H. Fr. Bakersfield; stepdaughters Betty Montgomery, Bakersfield and Florence Chesebrough, Newhall; two sisters Grace Reader of Santa Monica and Ruth Croson, Long Beach. Pallbearers will be Morris G. Seamon, W. K. Willis, C. Y. Benson, Al Strassner, Charlie H. Dodge and Fred H. Cronkhite. Honorary pallbearers will be William Purdle, Bobby McWatters, Charles Poston, Lee Berg, Jerald Browder, Larry Kliewer, John Howard, Leo Blair, and George Forgerson. Payne & Son Funeral Home is in charge. Sharon Kern Co. Volunteer