{"id":2250,"date":"2016-01-07T20:51:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2016-01-08T17:18:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T17:18:29","slug":"glen-a-bossard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/?p=2250","title":{"rendered":"Glen A. Bossard"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Glen A. Bossard \u2013 84 \u2013 of 7685 Reservoir Rd, Hornell (Town of Fremont) died Thursday morning (January 7, 2016) at home, following a long illness.<\/p>\n

A native & life resident of Hornell, he was born June 27, 1931 and was the son of Roy & Florence (Jaynes) Bossard.<\/p>\n

Glen was a graduate of Hornell High School (class of 1948) and later worked on the L.O. Bossard Dairy Farm (owned by his uncle).<\/p>\n

In 1955, he began working for New York Telephone Company which later became Bell Atlantic and finally Verizon.\u00a0 Throughout the years Glen was employed as a lineman, specialist, cable splicer, installer & repairman, retiring in 1991.<\/p>\n

Glen was a member of the Telephone Pioneer\u2019s Union and was a former member of the Hornell Moose Lodge.\u00a0 He enjoyed playing cards, especially poker & euchre and was a member of a local card club.\u00a0 Glen enjoyed the outdoors (especially the winter months) and was a member of several snowmobile clubs.\u00a0 In his younger years, he enjoyed hunting.<\/p>\n

He was preceded in death by his son, Steven \u201cBoz\u201d Bossard who died in 2002; his daughter, Catherine \u201cCathy\u201d Bossard who died in 2006; 2 sisters, Ruth Kame and Mildred \u201cMillie\u201d Flaherty; and his brother, Merle Bossard.<\/p>\n

Glen was married on January 25, 1953 to the former Mary Dixon who survives.\u00a0 Also surviving are 2 sons, Richard \u201cDick\u201d (Nancy Kull) Bossard of Almond and Brett (Kerry) Bossard of Ithaca; 1 daughter, Barbara \u201cBarb\u201d (Ron) Hilsdorf of Fremont; daughter-in-law, Julie Bossard; 6 grandchildren, Rachel Bossard, Natalie Bossard, Becky Bossard, Katie Bossard, Sarah (Dan) McManus and Rian Hilsdorf; 3 great-grandchildren, Conrad Meyer, Logan Johnson and Macheyenne Johnson; several nieces & nephews.<\/p>\n

The family of Glen A. Bossard will receive friends on Sunday from 4:00 PM until 7:00 PM at the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY where funeral services will be held on Monday at11:00 AM with Deacon Robert McCormick officiating.\u00a0 Burial will be in Rural Cemetery.<\/p>\n

Glen\u2019s family request that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in his name be made to either the Cathy Bossard Scholarship Fund, C\/O Hornell Alumni Association, PO Box 135, Hornell, NY 14843 or to the Fremont Fire & Ambulance, State Route 21, Stephens Mills, NY 14843. Memorial forms will be available at the Dagon Funeral Home or Click Here<\/a> to print a memorial form<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glen A. Bossard \u2013 84 \u2013 of 7685 Reservoir Rd, Hornell (Town of Fremont) died Thursday morning (January 7, 2016) at home, following a long illness. A native & life resident of Hornell, he was born June 27, 1931 and was the son of Roy & Florence (Jaynes) Bossard. Glen was a graduate of Hornell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}