Evening Star
October 11, 1977Haskell, Albert J. On Sunday, October 9, 1977, Albert J. Haskell, of Washington, D.C.; beloved husband of Esther R. Haskell; father of Joseph J., William C. and Lawrence A. Haskell; brother of Kathyrn Andrus; also survived by two grandchildren.
The Washington Post
January 21, 2006Esther Regina Knudson Haskell, 94, a former congressional aide who later worked as an administrative assistant, died Jan. 17 of congestive heart failure at Washington Hospital Center. She lived in Washington.
Mrs. Haskell was born in Minot, N.D., and grew up in Minnesota and Montana. She attended a secretarial school in Butte, Mont.
In Montana, she volunteered for the congressional campaign of Joseph P. Monaghan (D). He was 26 when he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1932, the youngest member of Congress at the time.
Mrs. Haskell, then 21, came to Washington as Monaghan's secretary. Newspaper articles described her as the youngest secretary to the youngest congressman. Monaghan served two terms, after which Mrs. Haskell worked at the Department of War.
In the 1960s, she worked as an administrative assistant for the Catholic Family Center in Washington. She later became administrative assistant to the head of the department of nuclear engineering at Catholic University, retiring in the late 1970s.
Mrs. Haskell had a talent for writing jingles and slogans and supplemented her family's income by entering contests. Her winnings provided the down payment for a house on Girard Street NW, and she later won a bicycle for one of her children by naming a dog Musketeer in a contest sponsored by the Walt Disney Co.
She was a member of St. John Baptist de la Salle Catholic Church in Chillum.
Her husband of 40 years, Albert Joseph Haskell, died in 1977.
Survivors include three sons, Joe Haskell of College Park, Bill Haskell of Upper Marlboro and Larry Haskell of Jacksonville, Fla.; four grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.
70669. Thurlow Arnsworth Haskell
U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
Name: Thurlow Haskell
Death Date: 29 Jan 1986
SSN: 549078230
Branch 1: NAVY
Enlistment Date 1: 18 Oct 1918
Release Date 1: 30 Sep 1921
41883. Rev. James Frank Haskell
Lawrence county Ohio.
James Haskell, minister, organized the first church society Methodist Episcopal.
Local newspaper
John M. White, 61, died at 9:40 o'clock yesterday morning at his home 611 Rex street. During the past four years Mr. White had been an electrical engineer at Ball State College. He had been a resident of Muncie for the past twelve years and was a mamber of the Normal City U. B. Church and the Masonic Lodge at Mooresville.
Surviving are the widow, Henrietta; a daughter, Mrs. Edith Mammitt, of Seymour; two sons, Carl and Walter White, of Muncie; a step daughter, Anna Wedmore, of Muncie; two sisters, Miss Maude White and Mrs. Flora Pemberton, of Coalgrove, O.; and a brother, Frank White, of Indianapolis.
Local newspaper
Mrs. Edith M. Dausch, 70, of Chesterfield, a resident of Seymour for about 20 years, died Saturday at the Americana Nursing Home in Anderson. She had been ill only a week.
She was born in Indianapolis, September 3, 1901, a daughter of the late John ans Nora Milla White, and was the widow of Carmel Dausch, who died in 1961.
She was a member of the Christian Church.
Three sons survive. They are John Hammitt, East Chicago, Guy Hammitt, Indianapolis, and Jack Hammitt, of Madison, Also surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Nora Webb, Jacksonville, Florida, and Mrs. Mary Foist, Chesterfield, 13 grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.