Notable People

Notable People

• Ancel Maynard Bezanson – Pioneer in western Canada, and author
• Anne Catherine Bezanson – Professor of Economics, author
• Dorothy (Bezanson) Evans – Genealogist; author of Bezansons from Nova Scotia
• Jean George Bezanson – Immigrant from Montbeliard
• Jean Jacques Jacob Bezanson – Early settler and businessman
• Captain Peleoman Bezanson – Accomplished mariner
• Dr. Philip Bezanson – Composer and educator
• Randall P. Bezanson – Law School Professor and Dean, author
• Brother Thomas Bezanson – Internationally known ceramic artist
• Walter Everett Bezanson – Scholar-writer-critic in the study of Herman Melville, President of the Melville Society

Untimely Deaths

• Afton Fenton Bezanson – Afton died in 1906 when a portion of the Bixby Hotel in Long Beach, California collapsed during construction. (See younger brother Ralph below.)
• Arthur Leroy Bezanson – Arthur "became lost returning home to Garland from the Valley, and was found several days later by searchers."
• Arthur Stanley Bezanson – Arthur died from injuries sustained in a car accident.
• Donald Bezanson – Donald and his daughter Kendra drowned in Herring Cove, Nova Scotia.
• Ernest Bezanson – Ernest died in a car accident.
• James Bezanson – James died in a car accident. (See younger brother Leverett below.)
• Jamie Bezanson – Jamie died in a motorcycle accident.
• Jason Robert Barkhouse – Jason was murdered. The case is unsolved. His daughter Melissa was four at the time of his death; she died in a car accident when she was 16.
• Josephine (Legge) Bezanson – Josie died in a car accident.
• Kendra Bezanson – Kendra and her father Donald drowned in Herring Cove, Nova Scotia.
• Leverett Bezanson – Leverett's body was found in a landfill, transferred there via a dumpster. (See older brother James above.)
• Mabel Gertrude (Feindel) Bezanson – Killed by her third husband, Alfred Veinotte, in a murder suicide.
• Martha Jane (Marsters) Bezanson – Martha died in a car accident.
• Melissa Gayle Barkhouse – Melissa died in a car accident when she was 16. Her father Jason (above) was murdered when she was four years old.
• Michael James Bezanson – Michael died in a car accident.
• Ralph Bezanson – Ralph died in 1902 when his twenty-two-foot sailboat capsized in a squall. (See older brother Afton above.)
• Raphael Bezanson – Raphael died in a hunting accident where his companion shot him with what the companion believed was an unloaded rifle. I have not been able to connect Raphael to the Bezanson line.
• Richard Bezanson – Richard was murdered in the illegal bar he operated in Vancouver.
• Wellington Bezanson – Wellington died from injuries sustained in a dockyard accident.
• Norman Keddy – Norman died as a result of a "car-pedestrian accident."

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