{"id":889,"date":"2020-06-22T14:28:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/?p=889"},"modified":"2020-06-22T14:28:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:28:16","slug":"william-a-lafountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"William A. LaFountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From the August 6, 2001 issue of The Country Chronicle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enfield, NH&#8211;William A. LaFountain, 90, died Saturday, July 28, 2001 at the Veterans Hospital in White River Jct., VT following a brief illness.  He was born in Chicopee Falls, MA on October 13, 1910, a son of the late Albert &amp; Sophie (Murk) LaFountain, and as a young boy had lived on his father&#8217;s freighter.  He was a U.S. Army Veteran of WWII and served as a canoneer with the 172nd Field Artillery.  A resident of Enfield, NH since 1930, he had worked as an auto mechanic for several years and was the owner\/operator of Bill&#8217;s Tidol Station.  He later went into the carpentry business.  He was known as a man who never said &#8220;no&#8221; to anyone, and would do anything for anyone regardless of their ability to pay.  Mr. LaFountain was a member of the Elks for over 30 years.  He was married June 1, 1983 to Marion L. (Smith) at St. Helena&#8217;s Church in Enfield.  Mrs. LaFountain died October 19, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was predeceased by his wife, two sisters-Sylvia LaFountain and Laura LaFountain, and a brother, Francis LaFountain.  Mr. LaFountain leaves several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friends called at the Ricker Funeral Home on Rte 4 in Enfield on Tuesday evening from 7-9 pm.  A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Wednesday morning at 10 am in St. Helena&#8217;s Church in Enfield with the Rev. Paul Rainville M.S. officiating.  Burial followed in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Enfield, NH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In lieu of flowers memorial contributions in memory of Mr. LaFountain may be made to a charity of one&#8217;s choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the August 6, 2001 issue of The Country Chronicle Enfield, NH&#8211;William A. LaFountain, 90, died Saturday, July 28, 2001 at the Veterans Hospital in White River Jct., VT following a brief illness. He was born in Chicopee Falls, MA on October 13, 1910, a son of the late Albert &amp; Sophie (Murk) LaFountain, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/?p=889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">William A. LaFountain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,27],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-enfield","tag-lafountain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}