Maurice Francis Rocheleau

Maurice Francis Rocheleau January 12, 1930 - November 17, 2008 NORWICH - Maurice Francis Rocheleau died November 17, 2008 in Tampa, Fl. He was born January 12, 1930 in Norwich, CT.and grew up Jewett City. He graduated from Windham High in 1947 and enlisted in the Air Force. He served as a radar repairman during the Korean conflict and was honorably discharged with the rank of Staff Sergeant. He attended the University of Connecticut, married Lucille Paradis and started a family. In 1955 he graduated with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and moved to Laconia, New Hampshire and later Crater Lake, OR, then to Portland, OR, then Missoula, MT where he worked as a highway engineer. By this time the family had grown to four children, Paul, George, Jean and Donna. He worked as a highway engineer and a supervisory maintenance engineer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington State, NM, and AZ. He was in charge of a maintenance and engineering force of 650 men and women. They maintained 67 schools on the Navajo reservation. He was a recipient of the for Best Employee Suggestion for cost effectiveness from the Department of the Interior. He spent a year on a Federal Government Fellowship studying systems analysis at M.I.T. He served as president of Toastmasters and Rotary Clubs. When he retired, he moved to Lisbon with Lucille where he became active in real estate development and served as president of the Rose City Barbershop Chorus and the Knights of Columbus in Jewett City. After Lucille's passing, Maurice married Helen Wozniak Staubley in 2003 and moved to Florida where he lived until his passing. He is survived by his beloved wife Helen of Valrico, FL, Lucille Donahue, sister of Quaker Hill, and his four children, George Rocheleau of Mesa, AZ, Jean Chavez of Albuquerque, NM, Paul Rocheleau and Donna Woodruff of Preston; and three grandchildren, Steven, Christina and Jeremy Woodruff: also numerous nieces, nephews and friends. He was predeceased by his brothers, Gerard Rocheleau of Willimantic, Robert Rocheleau of Rio de Janiero, Brazil and Rev. Raymond Rocheleau of Tucson, AZ; and sister Doris Saragosa of Noank.