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BEZANSON -- In Needham, March 29, Ernest Franklin Bezanson, in his 66th year. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the services, at his late residence. 539 Central av., Monday, April 1 at 2 a. m. Interment at Boxboro, Mass.⁷

NEEDHAM

Funeral services were conducted yesterday afternoon by Rev John Mason of the Methodist Church for Ernest Franklin Bezanson, 66, of 539 Central av, Needham Heights. Mr Bezanson was born in Nova Scotia Jan 22, 1864, and had been a resident of Needham 0 y2ears [20 years?]. He carried on an extensive milk business. He leaves a son, Raymond C. Bezanson; two sisters, Mrs H. E. Miller of South Hanover and Mrs H. S. Yui11 of Brockton; two brothers, C. E. Bezanson of Syracuse, N Y, and J. Z. Bezanson of Ashby, Mass. The burial was in Boxboro.⁹

BEZANSON -- In Needham, Nov. 22, Hattie A., wife of Ernest F. Bezanson, aged 62 years. Services from his late residence, 539 Central av., Needham Heights, Friday, Nov. 23, at 11 a. m. Relatives and friends invited. Interment at Boxboro, Mass.⁵

Mrs. John Bezanson

Ashby, April 8—The funeral of Mrs. Bertha Bezanson, 73, wife of John W. Bezanson, who died at her home April 3, was held at the Badger funderal home in Groton yesterday afternoon. The bearers were Albion and Roger Morse, Linnie and Robert Varney. Burial was in Boxboro.

Mrs. Bezanson is survived by her husband and daughter, Mrs. Otto Stroch of Ashby, two brothers, David Walker of Townsend and Henry Walker of Concord, N. H., and a sister, Mrs. Henry Vasey of Harvard.⁵

HADLEY, MASS. — Philip Bezanson, 58, head of composition at the University of Iowa School of Music in Iowa City, Ia., from 1954 to 1964, died at his home here Monday.

Memorial services will be held here today. The body will be cremated. Mr. Bezanson is survived by his wife, Lillian, a son and a daughter.

Mr. Bezanson received his masters and doctorate degrees from the University of Iowa and joined the U of I faculty in 1946. In 1964 he was named to head the music department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Mr. Bezanson won awards from the Society for Publication of American Music and the Fromm Foundation and was a member of the American Composers Alliance. His compositions included a piano concerto performed by the U of I's John Simms with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1853, and many chamber music works.

Mr. Bezanson wrote the music for an opera, "Western Child," to a libretto by the U of I's Paul Engle.⁶