LOUISE M. GAGNON

LOUISE M. GAGNON CARIBOU – Louise M. Gagnon, 99, passed away quietly, June 30, 2006, at her Caribou residence, where she recently celebrated her birthday with a small family gathering. She was born June 15, 1907, at Presque Isle, the daughter of Paul and Rose Cyr. She was baptized at the Holy Rosary Catholic Church, where she was later confirmed and married. She attended local schools, but was blessed with an inquiring intellect she was more interested in home schooling then academic studies and loved to read all her life. She married Thomas Gagnon Nov. 2, 1927, and they settled in Caribou to begin a long, happy life together for 62 years. As the wife of a potato farmer, she spent most of her life around Caribou, except for a few years after World War II in central New York and Pennsylvania. In the late 50s, they returned to live near their daughter, Constance, with her late husband, Edward Guerrette. After a fire at the Guerrettes, the two couples got a home together in 1987. A five-generation photo of Mrs. Gagnon with daughter, granddaughter, great-granddaughter and great-great-granddaughter was published in the Aroostook Republican Oct. 9, 2002. She was predeceased by her husband, Thomas in 1990; a son and two daughters. Besides her daughter, Connie Guerrette of Caribou, she is survived by two sons, Dake Gagnon of Whitney Point, N.Y. and Gary Gagnon of New York City, as well as close friends, George Drew, also of New York City along with one granddaughter, Nancy Malenfant and her husband, Gary, of Caribou and their son, Kirk and their two daughters, Suzette M. Pelletier and her husband, Troy with their two daughters, Peyton and Logan of Brewer and Kristie M. Lagasse and her husband, Marine Sgt. Keith Lagasse and their son, Benjamin of Beaufort, S.C.; grandson, G. Todd Gagnon and his wife, Linda with their three sons and Robert Gagnon and his wife, Tanya with their two sons and three daughters, all of Whitney Point, N.Y., along with a son, Thomas of Waterville, two daughters, Michelle and her husband with their two sons and three daughters of Messina, N.Y. and Julie Sullivan and her son of Binghamton, N.Y. Friends may call 7-8 p.m. Sunday at the Mockler Funeral Home, 24 Reservoir St., Caribou. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Monday, July 3, at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, with the Fr. Clement Thibodeau officiating in a Mass of Christian Burial. Interment will take place in the Sacred Heart Cemetery.