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September Memorials
In Memory of those Who Have Gone Before Us
George Ashline 4/25/925-9/25/1996
Samuel R. Asciotti 9/03/31-9/12/2012
John H. Bartlette, Jr 10/10/1942-9/17/2008
George Ashline 04/25/1925-09/25/1998
John Henry Barberi Jr. 10/10/1942-09/17/2008
Albert Blow 9/4/1935-9/21/2012
Lillian Gonyo Bosley 12/19/1907-9/11/1997
Irma Carter Bushey 05/17/1924-09/04/1993
Delina Bouchard Chagnon 03/15/1881-9/13/1944
Alexander Chagnon 03/22/1915-9/18/1992
Joan Bushey Chagnon 10/03/1940-9/12/2011
Lynn Taft Chagnon 11/17/1847-09/16/2012
Mary L. Sorrell Despaw 1885-09/8/1957
Sophia Bouchard Dorey 06/2/1889-9/30/1944
Lori Louis Dusharm 1845-09/2/1931
Earl W. Gonyo 07/29/1910-09/09/1987
Richard Gonyo 7/14/1920-9/12/1992
Dorothy Dusharm Lafond 10/10/1924-9/29/1978
Joseph G. Lamarche2/19/1915-9/11/1988
Alfred J. Lamore 10/21/1907-9/6/1951
Orissa Trudeau Langlois 2/9/1905-9/19/1930
Maurice M. Lapierre 1/11/1930-9/19/2008
Lillian Brown Lefevre 12/18/1896-09/26/1957
Irene Gonyo Maskell 7/9/1925-9/27/2012
Joseph Poirier 4/14/1884-9/6/1928
Francis Proulx 5/10/1908-9/30/1992
Marie Barbeau Riley 5/2/1904-9/1/1979
Randall Shelley 2/5/1930-9/17/2009
Emilie Krebser Stapel 7/13/1903-9/1/1974
Frank Thompson, Jr. 2/13/1949-9/30/2013
Jabis Bartholowme Valiere 01/01/1898-9/26/1940
Carline Valyou 8/30/1936-9/26/1940
Robert Whitehouse 4/11/1930-9/10/2011
If you know of someone who is related to the Chagnon Family that should be listed here please contact me so that I can add them to our list.
August Memorials
We Honor, Cherish and Remember
Jeannette Ashline 6/20/1929 – 8/18/1978
Veronica Yandow Blanchette 12/1/1921 – 8/20/2007
Louis Bouchard 9/10/1851 – 8/2/1938
Beverly Senna Chagnon 7/4/1950 – 8/29/2008
Christopher W. Chagnon 3/3/1994 – August 9, 2015
Euphemia Chagnon 3/23/1912 – 8/16/2000
Euphemia Cusson Chagnon 7/30/1838-8/1922
Ernest H. Chagnon, Jr. 2/16/1949 – 8/1/1952
Jerry Corron 1881 – 8/1970
Stephen Draper 8/20/1975 – 8/1/1995
Lucia Aube Driscoll 3/17/1916 – 8/10/2012
John A. Driscoll 08/13/1965
Norma B. Gonyo 9/19/1922 – 8/12/2007
Michael H. Gonyo 10/29/1942 – 8/3/2013
Francis “Bill” Gordon 4/20/1900 – 8/25/1981
Edward F. LaBombard 2/26/1923 – 8/26/2003
Sandra Jean Lamarche 1/1944 – 8/1944
Laura Lowell 7/18/1976 – 8/1/1995
Allen Marshall 7/12/1900 – 8/1/1973
Clarence Maskell 7/10/1940 – 8/8/1981
Roy R. Maskell 1/25/1928-8/10/2004
Tanya Wetherby Maskell 8/34/1951-8/19/1991
Marie Elizabeth Gonyo Poland 11/1/1922 – 8/18/2001
Fred Taft 5/27/1926 – 8/8/1987
Frank P. Thompson 1/10/1913 – 8/1971Scott Turner 9/4/1968 – 8/24/1997
Delia Dube Valyou 9/1/1859 – 8/25/1939
July Memorials
We Remember, Honor and Cherish
Imelda Brunelle Beauregard 10/26/1897 – 7/17/1969
Hazel D. Reynolds Bergeron 1/14/1922 – 7/18/1969
David J. Billado 6/11/1937 – 7/15/2008
Skylar S. Chagnon 7/14/2000 – 7/14/2000
Richard A. Chagnon 9/23/1950 – 7/1/2001
Ernest H. Chagnon 10/26/1919 – 7/5/2012
Sean Chagnon 11/15/1975 – 7/9/2017
Francis Clemmey 2/21/1918 – 7/10/1990
Alice Ketchum Cluett 7/16/1920 – 7/17/1992
Franck Despaw 1913 – 7/10/1968
Josephine Ducharme Gonyo 11/15/1884 – 7/7/1959
Simon Morin Kinville 3/8/1928 – 7/30/2010
Mindy L. Maskell 12/19/1979-7/26/2018
Louise Noyea Montgomery 4/25/1924 – 7/3/1982
Maurice R. Paquette 12/8/1909 – 7/20/1996
Carl Rock 7/21/1915 – 7/8/2000
Heidi Rocque 7/17/1975 – 7/23/1986
Melissa Rocque 2/12/1969 – 7/23/1986
Lynn Rodgers 4/21/1907 – 7/26/1968
Leona M. Comstock Rodgers 6/3/1914 – 7/29/1968
Ralph G. Ruiter 5/3/1906-7/1/1955
Walter Sweeney 1/21/1918- 7/30/1973
Martin Valyou 7/18/1946 – 7/22/1946
Moses Valyou 7/16/1894 – 7/5/1971
Helene Munson Welker 5/26/1926 – 7/5/2007
June Memories
Remembering Those Who Have Gone Before Us
Alexis F. Ashline 2/9/1921 – 6/12/1968
Athella Chagnon Ashline 11/14/1898-6/10/1973
Frank Ashline 9/7/1895-6/1/1977
David Ashline 5/29/1932-6/4/1984
Fay Beaupre 2/25/1890-6/7/1970
Barbara J. Senna Bisram 2/21/1945-6/6/2007
Kenneth A. Bosley 6/6/1929-6/28/1981
Elwin E. Bushway 10/4/1920-6/20/1966
Raymond J. Chagnon 10/25/1903-6/3/1907
Wayne Chagnon 1/13/1941-6/25/2004
Virginia Klein Chagnon 5/30/1926-6/29/2003
Nancy Chagnon Owens 3/27/1948-6/4/2006
Mary Fish Clemmey 5/17/1910-6/27/1995
Daniel Draper 4/27/1916-6/21/1988
Robert E. Genest 3/15/1912-6/1/1974
Jane M. Parizo Gonyo 10/20/1917-6/24/1989
Reginald Gonyo 4/5/1939-6/9/2018
William Kinville 10/18/1922-6/1/1984
Ronald LaBombard 1/31/1949-6/1/2003
Adah Gokey LaBombard 6/16/1927-6/1/1986
Oliver LaCasse 9/25/1987-6/13/1950
Emma Houle Lamore 5/5/1905-6/11/1988
Mark A. Lamotte 2/23/1966-6/13/1966
William J. Lapierre 3/10/1964-6/9/2001
Joseph LeClair 2/17/1917-6/14/1989
Carole LaCasse Lynch 10/7/1950-6/25/2013
Kenneth C. Martin 6/3/1914-6/24/2008
Rose Stannard Maskell 3/12/1933-6/21/2004
Virginia Watson Mayville 4/22/1926-6/6/2008
Gloria Gonyo McGrath 1/1/1927-6/21/1997
Lionel Paquette 10/28/1881-6/3/1940
Alice Laroche Paquette 1/30/1920-6/3/1997
David Piche 5/20/1842 – 6/5/1910
Philias Proulx 4/18/1869-6/12/1938
Linda C. Chagnon Rock 7//1950-6/6/2018
Isabelle Deforge Shepard 3/29/1915-6/10/1988
Oskar C. Stapel 9/6/1906-6/19/1974
Peter Sweeney, Sr. 3/8/1886 – 6/7/1945
Clara Chagnon Valyou 1/11/1911-6/5/1964
Michael Wood 11/11/1953-6/2/2004
What’s the story behind Juneteenth?
The United States has a new federal holiday. On Thursday, June 17, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that officially designates June 19, as Juneteenth, known to some as the “second Independence Day” as an American holiday.
Juneteenth celebrates the freedom of enslaved people in the United States at the end of the Civil War. African American communities across the country have observed this holiday for over150 years.
The date of June 19 was chosen for the holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in Texas, which was one of the last strongholds and didn’t happen until two years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Juneteenth has gained awareness in recent years as activists have pushed for state and federal recognition. Those efforts are finally being recognized with the signing of this bill.
On January 1, 1863, on the condition that the Union won the war, the Emancipation Proclamation would come into effect and declare that enslaved people in the Confederacy would be free. The proclamation turned the war into a fight for freedom and by the end of the Civil War in 1865 more than 200,000 Black soldiers had joined the fight for freedom.
Texas being one of the last strongholds of the South, made emancipation a long-time coming for enslaved people in that state. Many didn’t learned about their freedom until Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, and announced that the president had issued a proclamation freeing them. This is why June 19 was chosen and would become known as Juneteenth.
Early Juneteenth celebrations included church services, public readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, and social events, but for many years southern Black communities were forced to celebrate Juneteenth on the outskirts of town due to racism and Jim Crow laws.
As the Civil Rights movement took hold in the ‘60s, Juneteenth celebrations faded. However, in recent years, Juneteenth has regained popularity and is still celebrated with food and community. It also has helped raise awareness about ongoing issues facing the African-American community.
In 1980, Texas became the first state to recognize June 19 as a state holiday. Today, June 2021, the U.S. Congress has finally passed a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday.
Juneteenth is often confused with Emancipation Day, which is annually celebrated on April 16. Just like Juneteenth originally celebrated freedom in Texas, Emancipation Day celebrates the day when President Lincoln freed some 3,000 enslaved people in Washington, D.C.
What is the Meaning behind Memorial Day?
Memorial Day is an American holiday, observed on the last Monday in May, to honor the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. This Memorial Day will occur on Monday, May 31.
In the spring of 1865, after the end of the Civil War, a war that had claimed more lives than any other conflict in U.S. history had established its first national cemeteries.
In the years following the Civil War, Americans across the US began holding springtime tributes to the countless number of fallen soldiers, decorating their graves with flowers and reciting prayers, but it was not until 1971 that Memorial Day became an official holiday.
In 1865, the federal government declared Waterloo, NY the official birthplace of Memorial Day in 1966. It was chosen, because it hosted an annual, community-wide event, during which businesses closed and residents decorated the graves of soldiers with flowers and flags, It has been found though that one of the earliest Memorial Day commemorations was organized by a group of formerly enslaved people in Charleston, South Carolina that took place less than a month after the Confederacy surrendered
In 1868, Memorial Day was first called Decoration Day. General John A. Logan, leader of an organization for Northern Civil War veterans, called for a nationwide day of remembrance in early May. He wanted May 30 to be designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country. He wanted to call it Decoration Day because it was not the anniversary of any one particular battle or war.
On the first Decoration Day, General James Garfield made a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, and 5,000 participants decorated the graves of the 20,000 Civil War soldiers buried there.
By 1890, many Northern states had made Decoration Day an official state holiday, but Southern states continued to honor the dead on separate days until after World War I.
During World War I the United States was once again embroiled in another major conflict, and so the holiday evolved to commemorate American military personnel who died in all wars, including World War II, the Vietnam War, the Korean War and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 1968, observe congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, and so establishing Memorial Day on the last Monday in May so that federal employees could have a three-day weekend. The change went into effect in 1971 making Memorial Day a federal holiday.
Cities and towns across the United States host Memorial Day parades each year, often incorporating military personnel and members of veterans’ organizations. Some of the largest parades take place in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. Many people consider Memorial Day weekend the start of summer and so take weekend trips or throw parties and barbecues on the holiday.
Americans still observe Memorial Day by visiting cemeteries and memorials. Some people wear a red poppy in remembrance of those fallen in war. A tradition that began after World War I from a poem written by John McCrae, a Canadian Lieutenant Colonel who a brigade surgeon for an Allied artillery unit. He had spotted a cluster of the poppies during the bloody Second Battle of Ypres. The sight of the bright red flowers against the dreary backdrop of war inspired McCrae to write the poem, “In Flanders Field,” for the soldiers who had been killed in battle and lay buried beneath the poppy-covered grounds. Later that year, a Georgia teacher and volunteer war worker named Moina Michael read his poem in Ladies’ Home Journal and then wrote her own poem, “We Shall Keep the Faith” to begin a campaign to make the poppy a symbol of tribute to all who died in war. The poppy remains a symbol of remembrance to this day.
“In Flanders Fields”
by Dr. John McCrae,
Canadian Lieutenant Colonel 1915
In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
“We Shall Keep the Faith”
by Moina Belle Michael 1918
Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet – to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.
We cherish, too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We’ll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.
May 2021 Memorial
We Remember, Honor and Cherish
John G. Blanchette July 14, 1916 – May 12, 1999
Alexis J. Chagnon, Sr. May 20, 1869- May 27, 1945
Bruce W. Chagnon July 30, 1950 – May 12, 2021
Chester “Chet” Chagnon Sept 13, 1914- May 29, 2006
Henry L. Chagnon, Jr Nov 29, 1948 – May 10, 2008
Jean Stephante Cluett Nov 23, 1923 – May 20, 2004
Gregory Cluett Jan 22, 1918 – May 29, 2015
Alexis J. Coty March 1, 1885-May 30, 1981
Mae A. Ashline Despaw 1913 – May 31, 1988
Doreen Chagnon Draper Nov 14, 1956- May 25, 2017
Edward Duby June 1822- May 18,1911
Blanche H. Martin Francis May 25, 1928 – May 4, 2012
Sandra Ann Genest July 20, 1970 – May 2003
Leon Gonyo Sept 5, 1933 – May 26, 2006
Barbara Martin Gonyo Nov 10, 1935 – May 3, 2016
Herbert Gonyo, Jr Dec 20, 1928 – May 7, 2015
Edmund Laduke May 28, 1964
Dorothy Pratt Lamarche Nov 19, 1919 – May 1, 1996
Elizabeth Dusharm Lamore Oct 5, 1930 – May 31, 2018
Rosa Chagnon Lampron 1866-May 21, 1925
Andrew Marshall Aug 20, 1938 – May 13, 2010
Beatrice Ashline O’Connell Nov 5, 1929 – May 11, 2006
Robert K. Page Feb 10, 1923 – May 19, 1991
Aldea Poirier Paquette May 1, 1917 – May 6, 1986
Adelord Poirier May 7, 1909 – May 6, 1986
Mabel Miller Provost July 1, 1901 – May
Lawrence Riley Nov 10, 1902 – May 25, 1986
Gerald Roberge Nov 27, 1914 – May 25, 1971
Paul Thompson Apr 27, 1950 – May 24, 1996
Floyd Wood Apr 24, 1918 – May 6, 2004
April Monthly Memorials
We Remember, Honor and Cherish
Meadar Ashline 1861-4/02/1919
Melissa Brown Ashline 1856-4/10/1938
Raymond C. Bosley 7/6/1927-4/13/1989
Louise Morrow Bouchard 2/2/1905-4/15/1907
Joseph Lorenzo Chagnon 3/17/1881-4/12/1881
Pumilere Chagnon 6/18/1876-4/14/1877
Robert Chagnon 7/3/1947-4/09/2019
Absalon Couture 7/19/1892-4/1966
Stella Baron Couture 1895-4/1972
Raymond W. Dorey 5/29/1919-4/15/1922
Joseph E. Dorey 11/28/1885-4/06/1950
James John Doughtery 8/4/1917-4/15/1993
Vetal Duquette 1846-4/30/1931
Leo C. Dusharm 8/29/1926-4/13/2014
Sophia Coon Dusharm 1853-4/29/1940
Shirley Valyou Gardner 6/9/1932-4/07/1986
Irene R. Chagnon Gordon 11/8/1900-4/15/1990
Bruce Hardy 12/21/1951-4/2/2004
Rachel M. Jolicoeur 2/21/1904-4/16/1990
Walter LaCasse 2/08/1918-4/20/1918
George Lampron 2/1862-4/30/1942
George Lampron, Jr. 8/19/1889-4/30/1972
Mazip Langlois 1865-4/07/1928
Charles T. LaPlant 12/15/1922-4/01/1980
Gordon F. Mossey 6/20/1943-4/17/1984
John L. Paquette 8/11/1920-4/27/2001
Clara Monty Poirier 11/23/1879-4/25/1940
Mary H. Wheel Proulx 4/18/1974-4/22/1945
Sharron Shangraw Riccelita 9/19/1951-4/25/2018
Samuel Shelley 10/6/1893-4/22/1938
Edward E. Turner 2/21/1934-4/23/1995
March 2021 Memorial
May We Also Remember, Honor and Cherish
David Bushey February 12, 1917 – March 4, 1981
Narcisse (Nelson) Chagnon December 8, 1871 – March 19, 1928
William Chagnon March 2, 1946 – March 16, 2016
Orvis Joseph Driscoll June 24, 1915 – March 12, 2001
Olivina Chagnon Duquette March 4, 1878 – March 15, 1974
Walter Duquette February 22, 1877 – March 29, 1942
Josephine Page Duquette Sept 13, 1839 – March 11, 1905
Arnold Paul Dusablon April 22, 1933 – March 15, 2008
George Gonyo March 5, 1918 – March 31, 1997
Herbert Gonyo December 14, 1901 – March 29, 1976
Emma Seneceal Gordon 1870 – March 22, 1920
Marion Powell Hardy May 6, 1927 – March 12, 2012
Theresa LaCasse September 29, 1928 – March 28, 1992
Arthur Louis (Skip) Lamore March 12, 1927 – March 13, 1996
Grace Lamphron Poppe November 7, 1908 – March 1979
Charol Valyou Marshall July 12, 1935 – March 27, 2006
Mary Ann Chagnon Matott July 25, 1897 – March 15, 1981
Theodore Adkins Mayville 1923 – March 9, 2014
Richard A. McGrath Feb 8, 1921 – March 25, 1991
Geraldine Gordon Mossey August 5, 1911 – March 1985
Marie Jennie Paquette March 22, 1924 – March 23, 1924
Richard A. Shepard January 25, 1915 – March 9, 1978
Barbara J. Shores August 10, 1943 – March 9, 2007
Allen C. Shores December 21, 1938 – March 21, 2009