THEODORE OLIVER BOLDUC

Passed away October 21, 2010 at the age of 91. He died of natural causes at the Hale Nohea care home in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ted was born on New Years Day in 1919 in Augusta, Maine to Michael and Jeanette Bolduc. He was their only son and grew up with two younger sisters, Violette and Anita. Ted enlisted in the Navy at the start of World War II and served as an Aviation Photographer, assigned primarily to "Lighter Than Air" (blimp) squadrons in Georgia and Florida. He married Navy nurse Bernice Fournier, from Waterville, Maine, in 1946 and together they raised eight children. Ted and his wife Bernice left Maine in 1952 and moved west with their first three children, settling in the San Fernando Valley in California back when the Valley was mostly orchards. As the Valley grew, Ted recognized early on that a career in real estate would probably be a fruitful path to follow for himself and his growing family. After working for a number of brokerage firms, Ted passed the brokers' exam and founded his own real estate company, Valley College Realty. He opened two very successful offices operating in the 1960's before finally selling both his custom home and business to the same man and moving his family to Santa Barbara in 1967. He subsequently became an expert broker in the purchasing of post office buildings when those assets were passed to the private sector. Ted is survived by his sister, Anita of Augusta, ME; his son, Michael (and wife Wendy of Temecula CA); his son, David (and wife Melody of Rancho Santa Margarita CA); his son, Steven (Encinitas CA); his daughter, Julie (and husband John Lauritsen of Santa Barbara CA); his daughter, Mary (and husband Mered Oren of Carlsbad CA); his son, Gregory (and wife Joanne of Santa Barbara CA); his daughter, Denise (and husband Larry Caster of Kaneohe HI); eighteen grandchildren and three great grandsons. He was predeceased by his oldest daughter, Susan Coffey of Green Valley AZ.