COURTESY
SANFORD, Maine — Linda Poirier, born Linda Emeline Kingsbury on Oct. 24, 1947 to parents Lyle Warren Kingsbury and Loretta Marie LaCroix Kingsbury, passed away on Nov. 21, 2018 into the arms of our heavenly Father.
She was predeceased by her parents. Lyle Warren Kingsbury passed on Sept. 21, 2018 and Loretta Marie Kingsbury passed in September 1989. Stepmother Helen Kingsbury passed in April 2016 and a sister, Dolores Elinita LaCroix from Orlando, Florida also predeceased her.
Linda is survived by her son, Michael Paul Poirier and his wife, Anita from Berwick, Maine and two step-grandsons and a step-great-grandson; her granddaughter, Jennifer DeRosa, and two great-grandchildren of Claremont. She is survived by her brother Gary Lyle Kingsbury from Epsom and her sister, Marie Loretta LaFlower and her husband Wayne E. LaFlower from Laconia; nieces, Tracy Marie Paniaqua of Lancaster, California, Shantowa Nee of California; nephews, Robert and Richard LaFlower of Laconia, Chad Kingsbury of Missouri, Jessy and Kenneth Kingsbury, Fred Avery and his wife Jennifer from Berwick, Maine, William Welker, Arizona and Gary Welker, Illinois; 16 great nieces and nephews and great-great nephews.
Linda was a beloved aunt to all her nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews. She would entertain the youngsters with song and dance and scripture. Linda’s attributes were her love for her family, especially her ailing mother and father’s care, her love for nature and her canine friends. She loved her Catholic Church and faith and her rosary. Linda took cause to watch for her loved ones souls by having Masses for the ill and passing of family or friend. Linda’s meatloaves were always delivered to a neighbor in need when she lived in Charlestown. Changes of seasons always awakened a spiritual revelation to Linda. How the earth took a new change and her favorite stars of alignment always piqued Linda’s curiosity and she enjoying the bounty of seasons, picking berries, looking for four leaf clovers and walking her pets. In her younger days she took delight in running. Linda will missed for her humor, singing, dancing and her spiritual advice and the love we hold for her as a sister, mother and aunt. God now has a angel in his choir. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 2 p.m. on Friday Nov. 30 in St. Mary’s Church with the Rev. Shawn M. Therrien, pastor, officiating. Interment will follow in St. Mary’s Cemetery. Friends may call at the Roy Funeral Home, 93 Sullivan Street, Claremont on Friday from noon until the procession leaves for church. You are invited to share a memory of Linda with the family or leave a message of condolence in the family guest book at www.royfuneralhome.com.
Family Ties are precious threads
No matter where we roam
They draw us close
To those we love and pull our hearts to Home
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