Hassler was born in Placerville, son of a pioneer family. He attended school here and served with an air squadron in World War I. As a boy he worked for Blair Brothers at their saw mill.
He managed the sawmills at Sugar Pine and Merced Falls and while working for a sawmill equipment company in Oregon in 1943, he invented a special type of electric chain saw.
He is survived by his wife, Gladys; a son, John B. of Placerville and the following brothers and sisters, Mrs. J. P. Crumley, Mrs. Milo Carr, Mrs. A. C. Winkelman and Joseph Hassler, all of Placerville; Mrs. Howell Murphy of Medford, Oregon and Bernard Hassler of Sacramento.
Placerville Mountain Democrat, Oct. 25, 1951
Hassler was born in Placerville, son of a pioneer family. He attended school here and served with an air squadron in World War I. As a boy he worked for Blair Brothers at their saw mill.
He managed the sawmills at Sugar Pine and Merced Falls and while working for a sawmill equipment company in Oregon in 1943, he invented a special type of electric chain saw.
He is survived by his wife, Gladys; a son, John B. of Placerville and the following brothers and sisters, Mrs. J. P. Crumley, Mrs. Milo Carr, Mrs. A. C. Winkelman and Joseph Hassler, all of Placerville; Mrs. Howell Murphy of Medford, Oregon and Bernard Hassler of Sacramento.
Placerville Mountain Democrat, Oct. 25, 1951
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