BENJAMIN SHALLCROSS
ALBERTSON, JUNIOR
LEWES OLD TIMER
WW I VETERAN
Benjamin Shallcross
Albertson, Jr., Navy Veteran of WW I . was buried Tuesday, May 1st
1951, in the Bertrand
Episcopal Cemetery on Pilot Town Road after services at St Peters
Episcopal Church of Lewes,
conducted by Rev Joseph Clere Phillips , rector. This was the
first burial in the new
Episcopal Cemetery. Albertson was a Navy veteran of WW I, a
prominent American
Legionnaire and inventor who did at Lewes Beebe Hospital last
Saturday, April 28th.
A Fort Miles Firing Squad
gave him a salute at the grave site. Honorary pallbearers were
Col. Stayer, Delaware
Department of American Legion Commander, and the American
Legion Adjutant, Thomas
Egan. Active pallbearers were members of American Legion Post
5 of Rehoboth Beach where
Albertson had served a s commander, adjutant, chaplain,
historian and service
officer.
He died of heart trouble
which began in the summer of 1950 and caused him to be a patient
at the Brackex Veterans
Hospital several months.
Ben was a collector of
antique guns and had invented an special lubricating oil for guns and
machinery.
His only son, Staff
Sergeant Benjamin S. Albertson III, is now deployed in Japan with
an
Army Underwater Explosive
Ordnance Squad. Albertson III is married to Askato Ito of
Japan.
Mrs .Sarah Joseph
Albertson, his wife, whom he married while while serving at the
Lewes
Naval Base in Lewes, is
office manager of the Lewes Board of Public Works and the
organist at St. Peters
Episcopal Church.
Source: Salisbury Daily
Times, Tuesday, May 1, 1951
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