Northfield----- Graveside services will be held on Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 10:00AM in the family lot in St. John’s Cemetery, Tilton, N.H. for Roy “Butch” J. Gilbert, 76, of 34 Shaker Road who died January 6, 2010. Mr. Gilbert was the widower of Marion I. (Stanton) Gilbert.
Northfield-----Roy “Butch” J. Gilbert, 76, of 34 Shaker Road died at his home on Wednesday, January 6, 2010. Mr. Gilbert was the widower of Marion I. (Stanton) Gilbert who died in 1994.
Mr. Gilbert was born March 8, 1933 in Tilton, N.H., the son of Alfred and Amanda (Bernard) Gilbert. He served in the U. S. Army during the Korean War. He was a lifelong resident of Northfield and had been employed at Weeks Dairy for forty years, retiring in 1995.
Mr. Gilbert was an outdoorsman and enjoyed hunting, fishing and traveling with recent trips to China and Australia.
Survivors include a son, Kevin Gilbert and his wife, Lauri, of Clancy, Montana; three daughters, Coryleen Gilbert of Northfield, Jo-Ellen Hanson and her husband, Stephen, of Salisbury and Royann Bossidy of Boscawen; seven grandchildren, Kate Chase, Nicholas Hanson, Nathan Hanson, Shannon Bossidy, Dylan Bossidy, Hunter Gilbert and Isabel Gilbert; two great grandchildren, Simon Chase and Abigail Chase; a sister, Rhoda Allard, of Northfield and numerous nephews and nieces. In addition to his wife and his parents, he was predeceased by eleven siblings, Leonard Gilbert, Florence Carreau, Veronica Gilbert, Goodreau Gilbert, Willard Gilbert, Russell Gilbert, Roger Gilbert, Theodore Gilbert, Robert Gilbert, Donald Gilbert and Grace Fredette.
Calling hours will be held on Sunday, January 10, 2010 from 4:00-7:00PM in the Carriage House of the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N. H.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday, January 11, 2010 at 11:00AM at St. Mary of the Assumption Church, Tilton, N.H.
Spring burial will be in the family lot in St. John’s Cemetery, Tilton, N.H.
Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. is in charge of the arrangements. For more information and to view an online memorial go to www.wilkinsonbeane.com.