JULES FRANKLIN SANSEGRAW
JULES F. SANSEGRAW OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, WAS BORN AUGUST 10, 1913, IN POTOSI, MISSOURI, A SON OF THE LATE FIRMAN AND MARY (GOVERO) SANSEGRAW. JULES DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT THE WASHINGTON COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ON APRIL 6, 1999, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS AND TWENTY-SEVEN DAYS.
JULES WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MILDRED CRESSWELL ON FEBRUARY 16, 1944, IN FLAT RIVER, MISSOURI, AND TO THIS UNION THREE CHILDREN WERE BORN.
JULES IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, MILDRED SANSEGRAW OF POTOSI, TWO SONS, JERRY SANSEGRAW AND WIFE LURIS OF POTOSI, DALE SANSEGRAW AND WIFE KATHY OF POTOSI, ONE DAUGHTER, KAY RANDALL AND HUSBAND CODY OF POTOSI, TEN GRANDCHILDREN, ELEVEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, ONE BROTHER, ELZA SANSEGRAW AND WIFE VIRGINIA OF FERGUSON AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS HE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY THREE BROTHERS, ROUSSAN, FIRMAN AND GEORGE SANSEGRAW, ONE HALF BROTHER, CLARENCE PORTELL, THREE SISTERS, LOUCILE MISSEY, MINNIE BELL BIGGERSTAFF AND BESSIE MORGAN.
JULES WAS A LONGTIME MEMBER OF THE POTOSI UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. HE HAD FAITHFULLY SERVED HIS COUNTRY AND RECEIVED AN HONORABLE DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES ARMY SEPTEMBER 25, 1945. PRIOR TO HIS RETIREMENT JULES WAS EMPLOYED BY UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY FOR MANY YEARS, HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE TRANSPORTATION- COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL UNION LODGE #6355.
JULES ENJOYED FISHING AND WOODWORKING, HE LOOKED FORWARD TO TAKING TIME OUT OF HIS DAILY ACTIVITIES AND GOING FOR WALKS. HIS FAMILY ESPECIALLY HIS GRANDCHILDREN MEANT A GREAT DEAL TO HIM AND EACH OF THEM HELD A VERY DEAR PLACE IN HIS HEART.
VISITATION WAS HELD THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1999, FROM 2:30 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1999, AT 2:00 P.M. AT POTOSI UNITED METHODIST CHURCH WITH REVEREND ROBERT BULLOCK OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN NEW MASONIC CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, DAVID SANSEGRAW, DOUGLAS SANSEGRAW, JERRY RANDALL, GRAIG RANDALL, BILLY JO SANSEGRAW AND WILL BERRY.