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- After their wedding, the young couple settled in Verner, Ontario, wherethey appear to have lived for the rest of their married years. Throughout his life, Albert was a dairy farmer, a lumberer, and later a gardener at his home. Albert and Laurenciaeventually had 14 children, four daughters and ten sons. Both Albert and Laurencia were a little on the short side, barely over five feet tall. Grandma was always on the go andfull of energy. In their retired years they kept a beautiful vegetablegarden. Grandpa used to take grandson Marc ARBOUR ice fishing. He knewthe best places to go on Lake Nipissing and would tell stories of earlier years, including when they were lumbermen who cut wood in the winter. Even at 70 years old, Albert used tosnowmobile eight miles to Marc's house to take him out on the lake fishing.
Newspaper Obituary (ON) -- Jun 1979
ARBOUR, Albert -- Mr. Albert Arbour, resident of Villa du Bonheur in Verner, died at the Sturgeon Falls General Hospital, on 24 June, at the age of 87. Albert was a son of the late Joseph and Alphonsine Arbour andwas born 15 November 1891 in St-Emelie-de-l'Energie, QC. He is survived by his wife Laurencia Poirier, whom he married on 8 January 1917 in Lavigne. He is also survived by eight sons: Emeriand of Grand-Mere, QC, Berther and Sinai of Lavigne, Marcellin, Victor, and Jean-Paul of Sudbury, Ernest of Val-Caron, Dollard of St Catharines; four daughters: Mrs.Aurelie Rainville (Blanche) ofSudbury, Mrs. Alphonse Rainville (Anita)of Lavigne, Mrs. Arthur Perreault (Yvette) of Lavigne, and Mrs. Hugie Cosgrove (Lorraine) of North Bay. There are also 54 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren, as well as one brother, Edouard, of Pioneers Manor in Sudbury. Mr. Arbour was predeceased by his son Edgar in 1972. Funeral mass will be celebrated by Monsignor Benoit Fortier at St Jean-Baptiste Church in Verner, followed by interment in the parish cemetery. Funeral direction was entrusted to the Theoret Funeral Home in Sturgeon Falls.He had 7 Living Arbour
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