Claude Lemount Mossburg

Claude Lemount Mossburg, of Albany, GA, died Friday, April 20, 2012, at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday April 28, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at Byne Memorial Baptist Church with military honors. Dr. Matthews Nance will officiate.

A native of Liberty Center, IN, Mr. Mossburg had resided in Bluffton, IN. most of his life. Claude graduated from Bluffton High School in 1942 and entered the US. Navy during WW II, he served as a ship’s deck gunner in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. He participated in six convoy crossings of the Atlantic, as well as ships’ ports of call in England, Italy, the Azors and Okinawa. After the war, he attended Indiana Technical College under the GI Bill, where he studied engineering. After graduation, he was employed by Franklin Electric Company, where he worked in the drafting department for forty two years.

He was a member of Hope Missionary Church in Bluffton, IN and a member of Byne Memorial Baptist Church, Albany, GA. His favorite hobbies included gardening and bowling. He actively bowled in various bowling leagues until he turned 86.

Survivors include his wife, Betty J. Mossburg, Albany, GA, a daughter and her husband, Sandy Wingard and Col. Joe Wingard, USMC (Ret.), Albany, GA, a grandson, Lucus Wingard, Albany, GA and a granddaughter and her husband, Rachel Wingard Rodriquez and Juan Rodriquez, Atlanta, GA.

The family will receive friends following the funeral services at Byne Memorial Baptist Church.