J. Richard "Dick" Larrivee, 75, of 22 Kinsman Drive, Taylor Community, passed away Sept. 7, 2010, at his home, surrounded by his family, after a brief struggle with cancer.
Mr. Larrivee was born Dec. 24, 1934, in Laconia, the son of the late Damase and Josephine (Dickson) Larrivee. He attended Sacred Heart Elementary School and Sacred High School, graduating in 1953.
He worked at Scott & Williams until September 1966, when he was accepted by the First National Bank of Boston as a computer trainee. He lived in Dorchester, Mass., until his family joined him in June 1967, when they purchased a home in Marshfield, Mass. He retired as a manager of the Bank of Boston in 1996, when he and his family returned to Laconia to care for his wife's parents.
Mr. Larrivee loved sports of all kinds, puttering in his garden, refinishing furniture, reading, walking around Laconia and family gatherings.
He was a communicant of St. Joseph Parish in Belmont, where he was a Eucharistic minister and coordinator of the St. Joseph Food Pantry. He was a third degree Knight of Columbus and a member of the Robert Leroux Knights of Columbus Council 10943. He volunteered driving residents of the Taylor Community to their doctor appointments.
IN HIS LIFE: Dick is survived by his wife of 56 years, Rena (Deshaies) Larrivee, and his three children, Russell and his wife, Mary, of Twinsburg, Ohio, Denise and her husband, Phillip Steinkrauss, of Weymouth, Mass., and Alan of Oxford, Maine; 15 grandchildren, Teresa McDonald of Twinsburg, Ohio, Russell Jr., of Tyngsborough, Mass., Michael of Tewksbury, Mass., Christina Sgarione of Nashua, Paul of Greenville, Thomas and Peter of Twinsburg, Ohio, John of North Carolina, Catherine, Matthew and Andrew, all of Twinsburg, Kimberly Damon and Cynthia Steinkrauss both of Weymouth, Mass., and Nichole Scott of Italy and Jillian of Portland, Maine; 16 great-grandchildren and one brother, Kenneth, of Franklin. He was predeceased by his brother, Russell, who was killed in World War II in 1944. |