| Karl J. Bischoff |
| 3/31/2017 |
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Karl Bischoff, of Canton, MA, passed away on March 31, 2017, aged 91 very full years.
Born in Mattapan, Karl graduated Hyde Park High School wearing a Navy uniform in 1943. He served as a Motor Machinist Mate on Landing Craft Infantry 489, serving in the D-Day invasion at Easy Red Beach. Following D-Day, he was assigned to Landing Ship Tank 1040 and participated in the Philippine Liberation, the battle for Okinawa, and the Japanese Occupation. Following the war, he re-enlisted in the Navy where he witnessed the fifth atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll. Returning to Boston, he worked as a mechanic at Henry Jenkins in Mattapan. Karl’s career as a truck mechanic carried over to APA Transportation where he was the foreman of the Canton garage. All told, he worked for 45 years with Jenkins/APA until his retirement. He met the love of his life, Frances Brown, at the Norwood Elks Club, and married her on October 14, 1961. They spent the first few years of their marriage in a house he built in Randolph. They moved to Canton in 1964. They were together until her death in April, 2000. His hobbies included building birdhouses, gardening, volunteering with Meals on Wheels, travelling with his beloved wife, and sitting in his chair in the driveway, “shooting the breeze” with his neighbors. Beloved husband of the late Frances C. (Brown). Karl is survived by sons Richard Bischoff, of San Jose, California and Karl Bischoff, of North Attleboro, his loving grand-daughter Mari-Frances, his daughter-in-law Yuko Suzuki-Bischoff, his brother William Bischoff of New Jersey, many loving niece and nephews, and neighbors such as George Kalem, Marie and Bill McHugh, Jim and Vivien Taylor, Kevin and Joanne O’Sullivan and John and Nancy Doldge, and so many others who truly grew from neighbors, to friends, to family in his old age. Karl was predeceased by his parents Karl and Mary, and his sisters Rita, Mary, Alice, Florence, Katherine and Josephine. Relatives and friends are invited to attend a Funeral mass at St. John the Evangelist Church Canton Tuesday morning at 11. Visiting hour at the Dockray & Thomas Funeral Home, 455 Washington St., Canton,Tuesday morning prior to the mass from 9:30 to 10:30 am. Burial at Blue Hills Cemetery in Braintree. Navy Veteran WW II. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Groden Network for Autism and Developmental Disabilities (http://grodennetwork.org/donate-online/) or The Fisher House (https://donate.fisherhouse.org/default.aspx?tsid=3147). | |||||
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