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- The Star Democrat - Partial Obituary
Joan A. Bassett-Powell
Chestertown - Joan Alice Bassett-Powell, daughter of Charles and Jennie Gage, died peacefully Saturday, July 31, at Heron Point in Chestertown. She was 91.
She was born Nov. 11, 1918, in Bilbao, Spain, where her father was the British Naval attache. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thurstan, in 1991. They moved from England to the United States in 1982 to be with their two children and grandchildren. During her lifetime, she pursued a career in commercial art and portraiture before becoming a full-time homemaker. As a young mother, she endured the London Blitz during World War II.
She is survived by her daughter, Patricia Bliss of Oxford, Md.; her son Bruce of Victoria, Texas; four grandchildren, Georgina, Thomas, Stuart and William; and six great-grandchildren.
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