Doctor Robert D. Hamsher

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• Military Service: Abt 1942; World War II (US) US Army Air Corps

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DOVER, DEL - Robert D. Hamsher, DDS, 92, formerly of Dansville, died Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2000 at the Capitol Nursing Center in Dover, Del. as a result of natural causes.
Born in Dansville, he was the son of the late Glenn and Katherine Layer Hamsher. Dr. Hamsher was a WWII veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps where he served as a captain in the Dental Officers Corps. While stationed in Air Supply at Langley Air Force Base, he established the first dental clinic at Dover Air Force Base.

Upon his discharge from active duty, he moved back to Dansville where he was active in community and professional affairs. He was a long time member of the vestry at St. Peter's Episcopal Church and was a founder and charter member of the Dansville Area Historical Society. He was a life member of Daniel Goho Post #87 of The American Legion, a past president of the Livingston County Dental Association and a past president of the Dansville Board of Trade.

Dr. Hamsher moved to Dover, Del. in 1996. Besides his parents, he was predeceased by his wife Viola Jones Hamsher in 1979 and his daughter Joanne Hamsher Gilbert in April 2000. He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Sandra and John Dobbins and son-in-law Dr. Arthur Gilbert, all of Dover, and one grandson, Robert Gilbert of Washington State.

Graveside services, overseen by Chamberlin Funeral Home of Dansville, will take place Saturday, Nov. 18, 2000 at 11 a.m. in the Union Cemetery, Scottsburg, N.Y. (GCE, November 16, 2000, p4)

Family/Spouse: Viola Jones. Viola was born in 1914 in Binghamton, Broome County, New York; died on 27 Mar 1979 in Dansville, Livingston County, New York; was buried in Union/Scottsburg Cemetery, Conesus, Livingston County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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DOVER, DEL. - Joann Hamsher Gilbert, 64, of Dover, Delaware died of cancer April 20, 2000 in Bayhealth/Kent General Hospital in Dover.
Mrs. Gilbert was born in Waverly, N.Y. on Oct. 16, 1935, the daughter of Dr. Robert D. Hamsher of Dover and the late Viola J. Hamsher. She was a 1953 graduate of Dansville High School.

In 1997, she retired from Capital School District where she had been a guidance counselor for many years. Prior to coming to Delaware in 1968, she taught in several schools in Western New York. She had also been an adjunct professor for Wilmington College since 1994. She graduated from the University of Buffalo with a BA in 1961 and later received a masters of education in elementary and secondary school counseling from Wilmington College. She also served on the faculty senate for Wilmington College.

Mrs. Gilbert enjoyed college teaching, golf RV'ing and gardening. She will best be remembered for her friendliness, joviality and willingness to assist others. She was always reaching out to help people.

Mrs. Gilbert was a member of Christ Church in Dover, a member of the National Board of Certified Counselors since 1984, was formerly a member of the Rotary Club of Harrington, Del. and in March of this year was made a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow.

In additional to her father, she is survived by her husband of 22 years, Dr. Arthur R. Gilbert; a son, Robert of Union Gap, Washington; a sister, Sandra H. Dobbins (John) of Dover; an aunt, Audrey (Albert) Rood of Binghamton, N.Y.; a mother-in-law, Annette Ricard of Sanford Maine; two sisters-in-law, Vivian (Tim) Shirley and Angela (Richard) West, both of Sanford, Maine; and several nieces, nephews and cousins in New York and Maine. She was also very fond of her two AFS daughters, Barbara Trull and her fiance Oliver Voigt from Mainz, Germany and Susanne Gaglick and her husband Markus from Hanover, Germany.

Services were at Christ Church in Dover. Friends called at Ambruso Funeral Chapel, South State St., Dover. Burial was in Dover.

Instead of flowers the family suggests contributions to Wilmington College, Joann H. Gilbert Memorial Fund, 320 Dupont Highway, New Castle, Delaware 19720. (GCE, April 27, 2000, p4)

Joanne married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]