Vasseur, Mary

Mary (Burmeister) Vasseur, died on November 2,

2020, age 99 years. Born

April 29, 1921, to Ruth

Barbara Heileman and

Fred Wilhelm Burmeister,

Mary grew up in Springfield, Ohio. She graduated from Springfield High

School in 1939, Oberlin (Pittsburgh) in 1944. While in Oberlin College, she met her future husband

Jacques Henri Vasseur as a pen pal. Jacques was serving in the Free French

Forces during WWII, visiting the USA to train at the

Naval Base in Jacksonville,

Florida. Mary and Jacques finally met in person at the end of the war, and she married him in Paris,

France, in 1950. After her husband’s tragic and untimely death from cancer in 1953, she returned to

Springfield, Ohio with her young son, Dominique.

Mary worked at Oberlin College Library, Warder Public

Library (Springfield, Ohio) and as a school librarian at Keifer Junior High and

North High School (both her loving son, Dominique

Henri Vasseur, with whom she lived in Columbus since 2005; and by many close and dear friends. All who knew her will remember her goodness, her gentleness, her kindness and her marvelous smile. A funeral mass will be celebrated on

Thursday, November 19 at 10AM by Rev. Edmund Hussey at St. Agatha Catholic

Church, 1860 Northam Rd.,

Columbus, Ohio 43221. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be sent to either The Clark County

Public Library, 201 South

Fountain Ave., Springfield,

Ohio 45506, or to the Glen

Helen Association (glenhelenassociation.org), 405

Corry St., Yellow Springs,

Ohio 45387.