Notes:

Retired from the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad.

Honorably discharged from the US Navy, 3/4/1916 as a Yeoman, First Class from the USS Missouri at Philadelphia, PA. Discharge no. 12976. Source: Discharge certificate in the possession of Jon Case. He was paid a travel allowance to New York of $3.64 for the 91 mi. distance. Jon saw photographs of the Missouri in the Panama canal - the first battleship through the canal.
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Obituary from an unknown newspaper (prob. Scranton, PA):

JOHN LAPSANSKY DIES IN BRONX HOSPITAL

John Lapsansky, 403 West 22nd St., NY City, a native Scrantonian and former Olyphant resident, died yesterday morning at St. Joseph's Hospital, the Bronx, after a long illness.

Mr. Lapsansky was a member of the Masonic Order and was employed by the Lackawanna Railroad at its Hoboken, NJ offices.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Minnie C. Lapsansky; two stepsons, William K. Case, Huntington, WV, and Harold L. Case, Olyphant, and one grandson.

The funeral will be held from a Narrowsburg, NY funeral home at a time to be announced.

(Medical):at age 26. Blue/grey eyes, brown hair. Died at a tubercular hospital.

John married Minnie Charlotte Dexter on 9 Oct 1917 in Grace Church, Allentown, Lehigh Co., PA Bethlehem Diocese By Rev. R.H.Kline. Minnie (daughter of Moses Herbert Dexter and Lenna Esther Randtel) was born on 5 Sep 1886 in Mast Hope, Pike Co., PA; was christened on 28 Apr 1910; died in Oct 1981 in Huntington, Cabell Co., WV; was buried in 1981 in Woodmere Cemetery, Huntington, Cabell Co., WV. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]