He grew up during the Great Depression on the family farm and learned to fix most anything and use what was available which often meant he kept things for “just in case”. He attended the one room schoolhouse in Canterbury with his sister Rosie through 8th grade. He worked on the family farm and learned the art of being a sawyer from his father and grandfather who ran a sawmill.
He was drafted into the Army when he was 19 near the end of World War II and served for about a year stateside. After his service, he went back to working the family farm and raised sheep, cattle and kept a dairy cow and team of draft horses. In 1962, he married his lovely wife Beryl and started a family. He joined his brother Raoul working for the Highway Department for the State of NH in 1965 as a backhoe operator. With the assistance of his young 4 and 5 year old daughters, he built his own home in 1968 on New Road where he lived the rest of his life. George enjoyed keeping a huge garden that he generously shared. His many talents included beekeeping, haying, maple sugaring, raising Black Angus cattle, and fixing most anything.
After retiring from the State, he joined his good friend and neighbor, Hugh Fifield at the sawmill and worked sawing and logging with Hughie’s draft horse team for many years. They could be found most mornings telling stories at coffee hour.
He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Beryl (Wheeler), his three daughters Jennifer Boisvert, Rita King and her husband Leigh, and Lorraine Savageaux, and three grandchildren, George Savageaux, and Ryan and Jessica King. He is also survived by his sister Rosie Weeks. He was predeceased by his siblings Jackie Belanger, Raoul Greenwood, MaryJane Whitcomb and Tony Greenwood.
A Funeral service will be held on Thursday, August 18 at 1:00pm at Bennett Funeral Home in Concord, 209 North Main Street, Concord, NH 03301, the family will receive friends prior to the service at 12:30pm.
Burial will follow at Penacook Calvary Cemetery.
A Mass will be offered for George at Immaculate Conception Parish in Penacook on Saturday, September 17, 2022 at 4 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to be sent to Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation for the George & Beryl Boisvert Scholarship Fund at https://www.lrscholarship.org/.
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