Delaware Co. PAGenWeb Archives Obituaries - Joshua Whitaker HABBERSETT, 1960

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HABBERSETT, Joshua Whitaker 1960
 
                      21 October 1960
                           Friday
                 Delaware County Daily Times

           "Joshua W. Habbersett, Veteran Postman, Dies"

            MIDDLETOWN -- JOSHUA WHITAKER HABBERSETT,
        who was a horse and buggy mail carrier when Woodrow
        Wilson was President, died Thursday in Lankenau
        Hospital, Overbrook. He was 69 and lived on Middletown
        Road.
            A lifelong resident of Delaware County and a member
        of the HABBERSETT meat packing family, he was born
        in  Mt. Alverno, Middletown, the son of ESMOND H. and
        HANNAH WHITAKER HABBERSETT.
            After attending schools in Middletown he first worked
        on his family's farm and then served as a clerk for the
        Pennsylvania Railroad at the Elwyn station.
            In January, 1918, he entered the employ of the Post
        Office Department and served as a mail carrier out of
        Media for 41 years before retiring last September. He
        had been ill for several years.
            Known to hundreds of area residents, he first
        operated a mail route by horse and buggy and later by
        automobile.
            He is survived by his widow, KATHRYN BRAMBLE
        HABBERSETT; a son, JOSHUA, Jr. of Middletown
        Heights; a daughter, Mrs.  FRANCES GIBB of
        Bethesda, Md.; a foster son, KENNETH BABE, at
        home; two brothers, CHARLES and HARPER; two
        sisters, Mrs.  PRISCILLA DUTTON and Mrs. BERTHA
        DALTRY, all of Delaware County, and five grandchildren.
            Active for more than 30 years in the affairs of Mt. Hope
        Church, he served as steward, trustee and secretary of
        the Sunday School.
            Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the J. Nelson
        Rigby funeral home, Baltimore Ave. and Jackson St.,
        Media. Friends may call there Sunday evening. Burial
        will be in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
 
 
 
Note: 
Son of Esmonde H. Habbersett & Hannah L. Whitaker (d/o Joshua Whitaker & Sarah Lawton)
         Great-grandson of Jabez (of England) and Sarah Lawton
 
         Nine siblings: Sarah (nee Habbersett) Bonsall; Priscilla (nee Habbersett) Dutton;
            Isaac S. Habbersett; Florence (nee Habbersett) Carter; William C. Habbersett;
            Charles W. Habbersett; Bertha (nee Habbersett) Daltry; Joshua W. Habbersett;
            and Esmonde Harper Habbersett, Jr.
 

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