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The Rochester
Republican Town Committee salutes Jim Hartshorn -- our friend, our
neighbor, fellow Republican and a proud American. Jim's hard work
and commitment to helping others and making Rochester a better place
will never be forgotten. We will miss him dearly.
May he forever
touch the face of God.
ROCHESTER --
James A. Hartshorn, 79, of Rochester died at home Saturday, Feb.
19, 2005. He was the husband of Marion Davis Hartshorn; they were
married 46 years. He was the son of the late Florence M. and George
T. Hartshorn of Norwood. He graduated from Tufts College with a
degree in electrical engineering. Mr. Hartshorn served aboard the
USS Randall during World War II and the USS John Hood during the
Korean War. He retired after 27 years as a lieutenant commander.
For 14 years
he was senior apparatus engineer for Line Material Industries. He
had worked for subsidiaries of the New England Electric Association
and had been superintendent of electric operations for New Bedford
Gas & Edison Light Co. He had been deputy project manager for
the electrical design of Jubail Industrial City, manager of Saudi
Arabian client relations for Charles T. Main Co., deputy general
manager for Yanbu Desalination Electric Generation and Distribution
and construction business manager for Rabigh 1000 MW fossil electric
generating plant.
He retired in
1988 as senior section head for facility acceptance and warranty
control at Yanbu Industrial City. He had lived in Ireland and Saudi
Arabia and traveled around the world with his wife five times.
He had been chairman of the Acton Community Fund and the Electric
Council of NE Electric Systems Committee, junior warden of St. Gabriel's
Episcopal Church, loaned executive to the New Bedford Community
Fund, president of the Marion Horse Show, secretary of the Mattapoisett
Power Squadron, treasurer of the Rochester Republican Town Committee
and member of the Beverly Yacht Club, Pythagorean Masonic Lodge
and St. Gabriel's choir. He was involved in the Friendship Tables.
Survivors include
his widow; two sons, David W. Pierson of Rochester and Mark E. Hartshorn
of Wareham; a daughter, Victoria G. Terra of Lopez Island, Wash.;
five granddaughters; and one great-grandson.
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