George GOBEIL

   Another name for George was George GOBIEL.

  General Notes:

Obituary from Hope Memorial Funeral Home - Friday, Febuary 11, 2011

George C. Gobeil

Birth Date: Aug. 06, 1917
Death Date: Feb. 07, 2011

George C. Gobeil, 93, of the Inn at Atlantic Heights in Saco died peacefully on Monday, February 7, 2011 at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice. He was born in Biddeford on August 6, 1917, a son of Adelard and Laura Brunelle Gobeil and was educated locally.

He proudly served in the Army in Germany and France in WWII. Prior to the war he worked as a rigger at the South Portland Shipyard building Liberty Ships. Later he was employed as a crane operator at Saco Lowell and at the Portsmouth Navy Yard where he retired in 1966.

During his retirement years, he helped his son in the maintenance of his rental properties and he especially loved to work on his son's Tree Farm in Saco. He also enjoyed traveling, playing cards, gardening and wood-working.

George was a member of St. Joseph's Church of the Good Shepherd Parish.

On April 30, 1938 he married Leda LeBlanc at St. Hyacinth Church in Westbrook.

Predeceasing him are: Leda, his wife of 40 years, on April 3, 1979; five sisters, Yvonne Binette, Alice Bedard, Laurette Charette, Jeanne d'Arc Richard and Anna Neault, and two brothers, Phillippe and Willie.

He is survived by a daughter, Marie Gloria Wright of Las Vegas, Nevada, and a son, Robert E. Gobeil of Saco; one sister, Irene DuDevoir of Saco; three brothers, Alfred, Lucien (Arthur) and his wife Carmen, and Henri and his wife Priscille, all of Biddeford; five grandchildren, Steven Wright and his wife Tamara, Sue Konesky and her husband Anthony, Julie Wright, Robin Hinkle and her husband John, Dr. Wendy St. Pierre and her husband Richard; five great-grandchildren, Amanda and Emily Wright, John (TJ) Hinkle III, Elyse and Zackery St. Pierre; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Visiting Hours will be 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday, February 11, 2011 at Hope Memorial Chapel. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday at St. Joseph's Church in Biddeford. Burial will be in St. Joseph' Cemetery in Biddeford. Arrangements are by Hope Memorial Chapel, 480 Elm Street, Biddeford, ME 04005. To share condolences online, please visit www.HopeMemorial.com.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to the St. James School, 25 Graham Street, Biddeford, ME 04005.

  Medical Notes:

prostate cance

  Noted events in his life were:

• Employed: Saco Lowell: Biddeford, York, ME, USA.

• Employed: Portsmouth Navy Yard: Kitery, York, ME, USA.

• Communicant: St Joseph Church of the Good Shepherd Parish: Biddeford, York, ME, USA.

• Employed: South Portland Shipyard: South Portland, Cumberland, ME, USA. building Liberty Ships prior to WWII

• Occupation: Rigger: South Portland, Cumberland, ME, USA.

• Occupation: Crane Operator: Biddeford, York, ME, USA.

• Occupation: Crane Operator: Kitery, York, ME, USA.

• Residence: Biddeford US Census, 1920, Biddeford, York, ME, USA. Biddeford Ward 2, 202 Cleaves St.

• Religion: Catholic, 1920, Biddeford, York, ME, USA.

• Residence: Biddeford US Census, 1930, Biddeford, York, ME, USA. Biddeford Ward 2, 202 Cleaves Street

• Religion: Catholic, 1930, Biddeford, York, ME, USA.

• Military Service: Enlisted, 29 May 1945, Biddeford, York, ME, USA. Army served in Germany and France in WWII.

• Retired, 1966.

• Residence, 20 Jan 1980, Biddeford, York, ME, USA.

• Death Location: Gossnell Hospice, 7 Feb 2011, Scarborough, Cumberland, ME, USA.

• Cemetery: St Joseph Cemetery;, 12 Feb 2011, Biddeford, York, ME, USA.

George married Leda LEBLANC, daughter of Raymond LEBLANC and Clara FORTIER, on 30 Apr 1938 in Westbrook, Cumberland, ME, USA. (Leda LEBLANC was born in 1913 and died on 3 Apr 1979 in Biddeford, York, ME, USA.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Church: St Hyacinth Church, 30 Apr 1938, Westbrook, Cumberland, ME, USA.

George next married Marguerite Galipeau LEBLANC, daughter of Raymond LEBLANC and Clara FORTIER, on 28 Apr 1995.