William Creasser

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

772816

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Farringdon Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario

Commemorated at:

Riverdale Baptist Church, St. Paul's United Church

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

North Yorkshire

Birth city:

Foston

Address at enlistment:

55 St. Paul Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

55 St. Paul Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Clerk

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Miscellaneous

BX March 10, 1943

Veteran Civic Employee Dies – William Creasser, 151 Albion Street, Served City Since 1918

William Creasser, 142 Albion Street, one of the oldest City of Brantford employees, passed away early this morning in the Brantford General Hospital in his seventy-first year.

Mr. Creasser had been in indifferent health for some years, following a severe accident in 1929. He suffered a heart attack about two months ago, and had been in hospital for the last ten days.

Born at Great Driffield, Yorkshire, England, a son of the late John and Jane Creasser, the deceased came to Canada and to Brantford with his parents and family at the age of ten years.

He was first employed in the Slater Cotton Mill in Holmedale, and became an expert weaver. Later, he was for some years an employee of the Grand Valley Railway, being in charge of the Paris office of the railway for a lengthy period. Leaving the employ of that railway, he was with a survey party working on location and construction of the Lake Erie and Northern Railway. His father was for some years Secretary of the Brantford Street Railway, in its days of private ownership.

Going overseas soon after the outbreak of war in 1914, Mr. Creasser was in the Ordnance Department at Bramshott. Returning to Brantford in 1918 he entered the employ of the City, and for most of the succeeding twenty-five years he was with the Works Department, serving in a number of capacities. He was away from Brantford for some two years, and employed in the City Engineer’s office in Fort William, Ont.

For some years Mr. Creasser was timekeeper for the Works Department, and in recent years he had been bookkeeper in the City Engineer’s office at the City Hall. He was a member of St. Paul’s Anglican Church.

Left to mourn his loss are his widow, formerly Laura Chrysler; three sons, Lieutenant Aubrey Creasser, with the Canadian Active Army Overseas; Edwin Creasser, Philadelphia and George Creasser, at home; three brothers, Harold and Jack Creasser, Toronto, and George Creasser, in Australia and two sisters, Mrs. Jack Needham, Bowmanville, and Miss Ellen Creasser, Toronto.

The body is resting at the Beckett Funeral Home where funeral service will be conducted Saturday afternoon. Interment will be in Farringdon Burial Ground.

BX March 15, 1943

The funeral of William Creasser was conducted Saturday afternoon from the Beckett Funeral Home to Farringdon Burial Ground. Rev. B.A. Silcox officiated at the service, which was attended by a large representation from the City Engineer’s Department and the Board of Works. The pallbearers were A. Richardson, H. Dawson, W. Anguish, W. Earl, A. Bowring and C. Berkley.