King – Canaan, NH History

from the May 14, 1997

Lebanon, NH–Althea King Decato, 80, passed away on April 28, 1997 at the Alice Peck Day Extended Care Facility in Lebanon, NH. The daughter of Rolland Delancy King and Josephine Segrid Monell, she was born in Canaan, NH on December 15,1916. She attended Canaan schools and was a graduate of Canaan High School. She later graduated from the Katherine Gibbs School in New York City. She was married to Gleason C. Decato, Sr. in January of 1938. Mr. Decato died in 1987. She had been a resident of Canaan most of her life and had been employed by the Canaan Reporter Newspaper. In 1976 she moved to Lebanon and was employed as a sales clerk at Currier & Company of Lebanon until the stores closing. She was a member of the Canaan Women’s Club, The United Methodist Women, and had sung in the church choir. While in Lebanon, she attended the First Baptist Church.

There were no calling hours. Funeral services were held at the United Methodist Church in Canaan with burial following in the Wells Cemetery in Canaan.

Survivors include: a son, Thomas P. Decato of Lebanon; a son, Gleason C. Decato Jr. of Orange; a daughter, Priscilla Boissoneault of Fairfax, VT; a daughter, Alicia Lowe of Hyde Park, VT; a daughter, Penelope F. Bagalio of Barre, VT; a sister, Lily Clark of Lucerne Valley, CA; 11 grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

Arrangements were made by the Ricker Funeral Home in Lebanon.

from the July 31, 1996 issue of The Country Chronicle

Enfield, NH–Herbert Britton King, 88, died Monday July 22, 1996 at the Woodlawn Nursing Home in Newport, NH. He was born in Waterford, CT June 7, 1908, the son of the late Dana & Addie (Britton) King and had lived most of his life in the Upper Valley. He had worked at the Enfield Box Co.; The Baltic Mills of Enfield; and in his retirement drove a bus for the Lebanon Street School. He thoroughly enjoyed people, fishing, playing cards, gardening and camping. He will be remembered in Enfield Center as selling his roadside veggies with his little white poodle “Scampy.”

Burial will be at a later date in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Enfield, NH.

The family requests that memorial contributions be made to: Mascoma Home Health Services, Main Street, Canaan, NH 03741 or to: The Enfield F.A.S.T. Squad, Enfield, NH 03748.

Survivors include; Sons: Harry King, Newport, NH, Glen King, Enfield Center, NH, Richard King, Enfield, NH; Daughters: Yvonne Pollard, Enfield, NH, Marie Bean, Enfield, NH; many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, 1 cousin and ! niece.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Sylvia M. King, who died March 24, 1988; a daughter, Alice Louise King who died in infancy; and a sister, Gladys Goldenbaum who died in 1957.