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IN LOVING MEMORY OF Donald Lawrence Lapointe
Donald Lawrence
Lapointe
d. May 20, 2018
Donald Lawrence Lapointe's Obituary
Eliot- Donald Lawrence
LaPointe
of Eliot Maine passed away the morning of May 20, 2018. He is predeceased by his adoptive parents Ruth (Staples) and Herbert A.
LaPointe
and sister Geraldine Twombly. He is survived by his wife of 72 years, Marilyn
LaPointe
of Eliot, his children Dennis and wife Kim of Kennebunk, Deborah and husband Michael Mark of Eliot. He, also, leaves his 3 grandsons, Sam Horton and his fiancée Lisa Paradis and her three daughters, Willy Berliner, and Nathan
LaPointe
, his 5 great grandchildren, Haley, Hannah, Max, Skylar, and Samson Horton, and many nieces and nephews.
He was a graduate of Eliot High School 1940, a World War II Veteran with 38 ½ years of Civil Service with the Navy Department. During his tenure he received multiple awards and citations.
In Eliot community affairs he had in youth been a Boy Scout leader and later counselor. He served as Lay Leader in the South Eliot Methodist Church, was a member of the Eliot public school building committee, acting Trustee of the William Fogg Library, Chairman Board of Directors Mount Pleasant Cemetery Association, and the Vice Chairman of the Eliot Susqui=Centennial Committee. He was one of the founders, a Charter Member, the first Adjutant and second Commander of Eliot Memorial Post No. 188, American Legion. He was a 12 year member of the Eliot Fire Department and served as Selectman, Tax Assessor and Overseer of the Poor in 1952-1953.
He was appointed as a Naval Aviation Cadet in 1942 and on being medically discharged volunteered and served in the U.S. Army. Selected for the Army Air Corps, he served as a Staff Sergeant Photographer-Gunner with a B-29 photographic reconnaissance crew in the air offensive against Japan, serving in the Central Burma Campaign and in photographic mapping and aerial reconnaissance while stationed in India, China, and the Marianna Islands.
He was a member of the Hump Pilots Association and the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was a member of Toastmaster's International, the Portsmouth Power Squadron, Maine Municipal Association, York County Board of Realtors, and on retirement from Civil Service was made an Honorary Department of Defense Police Chief. He held a State of Maine Notary Commission continuously since 1952.
After retirement from the Shipyard he was associated with several local concerns including Haley Ford Real Estate, Flowers by Leslie, C & J Transportation, New England Fishing Gear Inc, Custom Pools, Universal Forwarding, and Northern New England Transportation Specialists of Exeter, and Macro Polo Inc of Portsmouth.
He enjoyed boating activities, traveling, golf, horsemanship, country-western music, and photography.
Friends are invited to visit with Donald's family on Friday May 25,2018 from5-7pm in the JS Pelkey Funeral Home 125 Old Post Road Kittery Maine 03004. Burial and full military honors will be held at a later date. Online condolences may be made by visiting www.jspelkeyfuneralhome.com . Family flowers only, donations may be made in his memory to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital at stjude.org . Care for the LaPointe family has been entrusted to the JS Pelkey Funeral Home.
He was a graduate of Eliot High School 1940, a World War II Veteran with 38 ½ years of Civil Service with the Navy Department. During his tenure he received multiple awards and citations.
In Eliot community affairs he had in youth been a Boy Scout leader and later counselor. He served as Lay Leader in the South Eliot Methodist Church, was a member of the Eliot public school building committee, acting Trustee of the William Fogg Library, Chairman Board of Directors Mount Pleasant Cemetery Association, and the Vice Chairman of the Eliot Susqui=Centennial Committee. He was one of the founders, a Charter Member, the first Adjutant and second Commander of Eliot Memorial Post No. 188, American Legion. He was a 12 year member of the Eliot Fire Department and served as Selectman, Tax Assessor and Overseer of the Poor in 1952-1953.
He was appointed as a Naval Aviation Cadet in 1942 and on being medically discharged volunteered and served in the U.S. Army. Selected for the Army Air Corps, he served as a Staff Sergeant Photographer-Gunner with a B-29 photographic reconnaissance crew in the air offensive against Japan, serving in the Central Burma Campaign and in photographic mapping and aerial reconnaissance while stationed in India, China, and the Marianna Islands.
He was a member of the Hump Pilots Association and the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was a member of Toastmaster's International, the Portsmouth Power Squadron, Maine Municipal Association, York County Board of Realtors, and on retirement from Civil Service was made an Honorary Department of Defense Police Chief. He held a State of Maine Notary Commission continuously since 1952.
After retirement from the Shipyard he was associated with several local concerns including Haley Ford Real Estate, Flowers by Leslie, C & J Transportation, New England Fishing Gear Inc, Custom Pools, Universal Forwarding, and Northern New England Transportation Specialists of Exeter, and Macro Polo Inc of Portsmouth.
He enjoyed boating activities, traveling, golf, horsemanship, country-western music, and photography.
Friends are invited to visit with Donald's family on Friday May 25,2018 from5-7pm in the JS Pelkey Funeral Home 125 Old Post Road Kittery Maine 03004. Burial and full military honors will be held at a later date. Online condolences may be made by visiting www.jspelkeyfuneralhome.com . Family flowers only, donations may be made in his memory to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital at stjude.org . Care for the LaPointe family has been entrusted to the JS Pelkey Funeral Home.
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