Obituary for Robert John "Bob" French Sr.
NOTICE OF SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT - There will be a graveside service for Robert J. French, Sr., at 11AM, Saturday, June 27, 2020 at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Camden. - Please use the social distancing guidelines.
ROBERT J. FRENCH
CAMDEN……………Robert John French, Sr., 77, was born on October 2, 1942 in Bangor and was the son of Dwight and Leora (Brown) French. The family moved to Camden where Bob grew up attended schools here and was a member of the Class of 1961 at Camden High School. On June 15, 1968, he married Dolores Whitten.
As an auto mechanic, Bob worked at Boynton Chevrolet in Camden, Ellery T. Nelson Dodge in Rockland, then over 40 years for SAD # 28 maintaining their fleet of school buses.
A 35 year member of the Camden Fire Department, Bob also worked ten years as a dispatcher there. He was a founding member of the Camden Fire Department Access Team and providing the first vehicle extrication tools and training for the Camden-Rockport area. He also provided ambulance maintenance and repair for the Camden First Aid Association for 20 years.
Bob was a 54 year member of the Amity Masonic Lodge, and had served on the budget committee and cemetery committee for the Town of Camden.
He loved snowmobiling, repairing antique vehicles with his three sons, and was proud of the fact that he “grew up with his boys”. Bob especially enjoyed working on his Chevy Corvairs and driving them around mid-coast Maine.
Surviving is his wife of 51 years, Dolores French, three sons, Jeffery French and his wife, Kala Meyers-French, Robert J. French, Jr. and his wife, Stephanie, all of Camden, and Mike French and his wife, Rebecca of Warren; seven grandchildren, Tanya Simmons and her husband Jacob Johnson of Tenants Harbor, Sara Merrifield and her husband, Cole of Cushing, Garrett French of Warren, Kaitlyn French and her significant other, Zac Heanssler of Blue Hill, Joshua French of Deer Isle, Austin French and Kameron French, both of Camden; two and great-grandchildren and one expected in June, Riley Johnson, and Landen Merrifield; a sister-in-law, Dorothy Johnson of Thomaston; and several nieces and nephews??
A graveside service will be announced in the spring in Oak Hill Cemetery.
ROBERT J. FRENCH
CAMDEN……………Robert John French, Sr., 77, was born on October 2, 1942 in Bangor and was the son of Dwight and Leora (Brown) French. The family moved to Camden where Bob grew up attended schools here and was a member of the Class of 1961 at Camden High School. On June 15, 1968, he married Dolores Whitten.
As an auto mechanic, Bob worked at Boynton Chevrolet in Camden, Ellery T. Nelson Dodge in Rockland, then over 40 years for SAD # 28 maintaining their fleet of school buses.
A 35 year member of the Camden Fire Department, Bob also worked ten years as a dispatcher there. He was a founding member of the Camden Fire Department Access Team and providing the first vehicle extrication tools and training for the Camden-Rockport area. He also provided ambulance maintenance and repair for the Camden First Aid Association for 20 years.
Bob was a 54 year member of the Amity Masonic Lodge, and had served on the budget committee and cemetery committee for the Town of Camden.
He loved snowmobiling, repairing antique vehicles with his three sons, and was proud of the fact that he “grew up with his boys”. Bob especially enjoyed working on his Chevy Corvairs and driving them around mid-coast Maine.
Surviving is his wife of 51 years, Dolores French, three sons, Jeffery French and his wife, Kala Meyers-French, Robert J. French, Jr. and his wife, Stephanie, all of Camden, and Mike French and his wife, Rebecca of Warren; seven grandchildren, Tanya Simmons and her husband Jacob Johnson of Tenants Harbor, Sara Merrifield and her husband, Cole of Cushing, Garrett French of Warren, Kaitlyn French and her significant other, Zac Heanssler of Blue Hill, Joshua French of Deer Isle, Austin French and Kameron French, both of Camden; two and great-grandchildren and one expected in June, Riley Johnson, and Landen Merrifield; a sister-in-law, Dorothy Johnson of Thomaston; and several nieces and nephews??
A graveside service will be announced in the spring in Oak Hill Cemetery.