Many are wonderful.
Meeting while they were in elementary school, for instance, and Roger saying to the cousin who introduced them: “I’m going to marry her someday.”
He did, more than 60 years ago.
Other memories involve the five children they would have and how she, a nurse, and he, a salesman, raised them together.
Also, the gardens at their North Providence home: she tending the flowers, and he the vegetables.
The birds at their birdhouses.
Their nine grandchildren.
But other memories also come, none of them wonderful.
The first time he suspected something was wrong with Lorraine is vivid. She kept repeating the same thing she’d just said, not remembering she’d already said it.
Friday, January 15, 2021 - 5:21 pm
WADDINGTON Richard G. Legault (Rick), passed away on Sunday afternoon, January 10, 2021 at Claxton Hepburn Medical Center, Ogdensburg at the age of 73, but his unfailing humor, kindness, and generosity will not be forgotten.
Rick was born on July 1, 1947, in Timmins, Ontario, CA, the youngest son of Laurent and Isabelle Whalen Legault. He graduated from Ogdensburg Free Academy in 1965 and went on to enlist in the Navy. He served on USS Annapolis (AGMR-1) off the coast of Vietnam and the USS Coral Sea (CV-43) before his honorable discharge in 1968. Upon his return, he graduated from the Local 81 Bricklayer’s Apprenticeship.