Harvard Memorials: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Gifford Doxsee
The town of Athens lost a good friend when Gifford B. Doxsee, age 93, died on the evening of July 16, 2017 at OhioHealth O'Bleness Hospital, Athens. Gifford was born July 4, 1924 in Bay Shore, NY; the son of the late Robert Lenox Doxsee and Jessie May Gifford Doxsee. Gifford grew up working hard in his father's clamming business, Doxsee Sea Clam Company. He graduated from Freeport high school in 1942, and that same year Gifford enlisted in the United States Army; eventually he served in...
