Children:
No Issue
Sibling(s):
Sadie Ethel Sandt
Carl Oliver Sandt
Kenneth Edward Sandt
Dorothy Pearl Sandt |
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Easton Express, Thursday, August 23, 1951, Page 46
Raymond B. Sandt, L.V.T. Driver, Stricken on Bus
Raymond B. Sandt, 62 year old bus driver for the Lehigh Valley Transit Company, died of a heart attack yesterday about 4 p.m. a short time after he had brought his bus to a stop at a passenger loading platform in Centre square. His home was at 19 North Second Street.
Mrs. Sandt a driver on the Walnut Ave. College Hill run, was in the process of loading his bus at the northwest platform in the Circle when he collapsed at the wheel. He succumbed en route in an ambulance to Easton Hospital about 10 minutes later.
Dr. Richard Baddour, of Easton, deputy Northampton county coroner, said the man died of a coronary occlusion. According to his family the bus driver had returned to work last month after being off about four months with a heart ailment.
Mr. Sandt had been employed by the transit company for more than 25 years. He had worked I the company’s garage before becoming a driver in November 1939.
In former years he had been a candy maker for Abel’s confectionery and ice cream parlor, and later he operated his own candy factory at West and Ferry Streets.
Born in Philadelphia, Aug, 6, 1889, Mr. Sandt was the son of the late Oliver and Emma Beitler Sandt, He came to Easton with his parents when he was about two years old and except for a brief time when he lived in Phillipsburg, he made his home in this city since, then.
Surviving are his wife, the former Blanche Hawk,; two sisters, Mrs. Ethel Garis, of Easton, and Mrs. Harold Sigafoos, of Nazareth R.D.3, and a brother, Carl Sandt, of Palmer Township
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