George G. Abar, formerly of 72 Lincoln St., a retired 50-year signal supervisor for the Boston & Maine Railroad, died on Saturday in a local nursing home.
He retired in 1964.
Born in Island Pond, Vermont., he was educated at Lyndonville, Vt., Academy. He moved here from Royalston 53 years ago.
He was a member of First Congregational Church and the Guiding Star Grange.
He was a 32nd-degree Mason and a 70-year member of the Yorkshire Masonic Lodge in Berwick, Maine.
He was also a member of the Anchor Club, a Masonic railroaders' club in Ashland, N.H.
His first wife, the former Catharine Kennedy, died in 1967.
He leaves his second wife, the former Elsie M. (Williams) LeVeille; two sons, G. Gilman Jr. of Benicia, Calif., and Norman D. of Sacramento, Calif.; a stepdaughter, Eleanor M. Parda of Greenfield; four grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
A grandson, Alan T. Parda, died last November.
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Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian
George G. Abar, formerly of 72 Lincoln St., a retired 50-year signal supervisor for the Boston & Maine Railroad, died on Saturday in a local nursing home.
He retired in 1964.
Born in Island Pond, Vermont., he was educated at Lyndonville, Vt., Academy. He moved here from Royalston 53 years ago.
He was a member of First Congregational Church and the Guiding Star Grange.
He was a 32nd-degree Mason and a 70-year member of the Yorkshire Masonic Lodge in Berwick, Maine.
He was also a member of the Anchor Club, a Masonic railroaders' club in Ashland, N.H.
His first wife, the former Catharine Kennedy, died in 1967.
He leaves his second wife, the former Elsie M. (Williams) LeVeille; two sons, G. Gilman Jr. of Benicia, Calif., and Norman D. of Sacramento, Calif.; a stepdaughter, Eleanor M. Parda of Greenfield; four grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.
A grandson, Alan T. Parda, died last November.
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Bio;
By
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian
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