Aurele Cormier

ANDOVER - Aurele Cormier, 72, of Andover, longtime president of a local construction company who built homes in the Bay State for more than four decades, died Saturday, Aug. 3, at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington. He was the husband of Diana Cormier, to whom he was married for 45 years.

Mr. Cormier was the president of Parkwood Construction Corp. in Andover. He had been building homes throughout Massachusetts for 45 years.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by three sons, Paul J. Cormier and his wife Nancy of Concord, N.C., Gene A. Cormier and his wife Janet of North Reading and Robert P. Cormier and his wife Christine of Salem, N.H.; a daughter, Rosemarie Cormier and her husband Robert Fuller of Hampton, N.H.

He also leaves five brothers, Normand Cormier and Alderice Cormier, both residing in New Brunswick, Canada, Yvon Cormier of Andover, Philippe Cormier of Acton and John Cormier of Gloucester; four sisters, Wilma Auffrey, Anita LeBlanc, Albertine Bourgeois and Laurina LeBlanc, all residing in New Brunswick, Canada; also 11 grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.