FORT KENT – Claude J. Cyr, 90, returned to his maker May 12, 2007, while at the Maine Veterans’ Home, Caribou. He was born April 12, 1917, to Felix and Edith (Dufour) Cyr at Keegan. Claude served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a radar man on a minesweeper along the U.S. Atlantic Coast. Claude spent his life as a manager of city and country clubs. He attended Club Managers Educational workshops at Cornell University and was a member of the Club Managers’ Association. He began in Waterbury, Conn., in the 40s at the Waterbury Country Club; he also served as manager of the Town Club, Bristol, Conn., in the 50s; the New Canaan, Conn. Country Club; as well as the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Md., Retreat House in the 60s and 70s. He ended his career as director of facilities and housekeeping at the Bristol Hospital in the 70s. He retired to the Fort Kent area in the 80s to enjoy golf and fishing and to start a Christmas tree farm. He was a member of St. Louis Church. He had attained the level of Fourth Degree Knight in the Knights of Columbus. He was predeceased by his beloved wife, Juliette (Metayer) Cyr in 1974; all his brothers, Willie “Bill” Cyr, Louis Cyr, Arthur Cyr; as well as his lone sister, Irene Comeau. He leaves two sons, Edmund Cyr and his wife, Bella, of Wallagrass, and Ronald Cyr and his wife, Shan Murphy Cyr, of Guilford, Conn.; five grandchildren, Michelle Cyr of Portland, Edmund Cyr Jr. of Kingston, N.H., Aimee Tonneson of Scarborough, Juliette McSweet of Guil-ford, Conn., and Maureen Car-uso, of Guilford, Conn.; seven great-grandchildren; one sister-in-law, Anita Cyr of Venice, Fla.; and a brother-in-law, Fred Metayer of Bristol, Conn. After a memorial service June 9, at Dupont Funeral Home, Bristol, Conn., the former Town Club, which he had managed in the 50s, he will be interred at the family plot at St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Bristol, Conn. A memorial Mass will also be celebrated at Saint Joseph’s Church, Wallagrass, at a family gathering this summer. In lieu of flowers, the family would prefer that donations in his name be made to help military families to Fisher House Foundation, Inc., 1401 Rock-ville Pike, Suite 600, Rockville, MD 20852.
CLAUDE J. CYR
