Jean "John" Lionel Bourbeau was the son of Lionel J. and Rose A. (Daignault) Bourbeau.
He was educated in Montague public schools.
A Navy veteran of World War II, John Bourbeau left Turners Falls High School for the Navy in May of 1943, and served from June 1943 to February 1946 in the Pacific Theatre, attaining the rank of seaman first class. He was discharged in February of 1946. While a student at Turners Falls High School, "Chick" played two years of football and one year of basketball. After returning home from the Navy, John Bourbeau graduated with the Turners Falls High School Class of 1947.
John was a 48-year employee of International Paper Co. (formerly Strathmore Paper Co.) in Turners Falls. A papermaker, he retired in 1990.
He was a communicant of Saint Anne's Church while growing up in Turners Falls, and as an adult, of Holy Trinity Church.
John enjoyed hunting and fishing, cross-country and downhill skiing, antiques and yard sales. In earlier years, he owned and rode motorcycles. He was a longtime supporter of the Bement School in Deerfield.
John married the former Marianne Schlaufmann Jacobs in Holy Trinity Church, June 13, 1970.
Besides his wife of 33 years, he leaves two sons, Christian A. "Chris" Jacobs and his wife, Carol, and Stephen Jacobs; a brother Charles (deceased) and his wife, Edith; four grandchildren, Matthew C., Andrew C., and Brenden C. Jacobs and Julie Plummer ; several nieces and nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews and two sisters-in-laws, Margaret (Sowell) Bourbeau and Marian (Hill) Bourbeau (deceased).
"The one who rarely speaks is always listened to."
Much of the biography for John Bourbeau came from his obituary by: S.L. Strahan, for the Greenfield [Mass.] Recorder - June 23, 2003. Additional material from Turners Falls H.S. yearbook - Class of 1947, and the Bourbeau family.
Barabara (Bourbeau) Gibson remembers that her Uncle Jean used to like to make model airplanes.
He was educated in Montague public schools.
A Navy veteran of World War II, John Bourbeau left Turners Falls High School for the Navy in May of 1943, and served from June 1943 to February 1946 in the Pacific Theatre, attaining the rank of seaman first class. He was discharged in February of 1946. While a student at Turners Falls High School, "Chick" played two years of football and one year of basketball. After returning home from the Navy, John Bourbeau graduated with the Turners Falls High School Class of 1947.
John was a 48-year employee of International Paper Co. (formerly Strathmore Paper Co.) in Turners Falls. A papermaker, he retired in 1990.
He was a communicant of Saint Anne's Church while growing up in Turners Falls, and as an adult, of Holy Trinity Church.
John enjoyed hunting and fishing, cross-country and downhill skiing, antiques and yard sales. In earlier years, he owned and rode motorcycles. He was a longtime supporter of the Bement School in Deerfield.
John married the former Marianne Schlaufmann Jacobs in Holy Trinity Church, June 13, 1970.
Besides his wife of 33 years, he leaves two sons, Christian A. "Chris" Jacobs and his wife, Carol, and Stephen Jacobs; a brother Charles (deceased) and his wife, Edith; four grandchildren, Matthew C., Andrew C., and Brenden C. Jacobs and Julie Plummer ; several nieces and nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews and two sisters-in-laws, Margaret (Sowell) Bourbeau and Marian (Hill) Bourbeau (deceased).
"The one who rarely speaks is always listened to."
Much of the biography for John Bourbeau came from his obituary by: S.L. Strahan, for the Greenfield [Mass.] Recorder - June 23, 2003. Additional material from Turners Falls H.S. yearbook - Class of 1947, and the Bourbeau family.
Barabara (Bourbeau) Gibson remembers that her Uncle Jean used to like to make model airplanes.
Jean "John" Lionel Bourbeau was the son of Lionel J. and Rose A. (Daignault) Bourbeau.
He was educated in Montague public schools.
A Navy veteran of World War II, John Bourbeau left Turners Falls High School for the Navy in May of 1943, and served from June 1943 to February 1946 in the Pacific Theatre, attaining the rank of seaman first class. He was discharged in February of 1946. While a student at Turners Falls High School, "Chick" played two years of football and one year of basketball. After returning home from the Navy, John Bourbeau graduated with the Turners Falls High School Class of 1947.
John was a 48-year employee of International Paper Co. (formerly Strathmore Paper Co.) in Turners Falls. A papermaker, he retired in 1990.
He was a communicant of Saint Anne's Church while growing up in Turners Falls, and as an adult, of Holy Trinity Church.
John enjoyed hunting and fishing, cross-country and downhill skiing, antiques and yard sales. In earlier years, he owned and rode motorcycles. He was a longtime supporter of the Bement School in Deerfield.
John married the former Marianne Schlaufmann Jacobs in Holy Trinity Church, June 13, 1970.
Besides his wife of 33 years, he leaves two sons, Christian A. "Chris" Jacobs and his wife, Carol, and Stephen Jacobs; a brother Charles (deceased) and his wife, Edith; four grandchildren, Matthew C., Andrew C., and Brenden C. Jacobs and Julie Plummer ; several nieces and nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews and two sisters-in-laws, Margaret (Sowell) Bourbeau and Marian (Hill) Bourbeau (deceased).
"The one who rarely speaks is always listened to."
Much of the biography for John Bourbeau came from his obituary by: S.L. Strahan, for the Greenfield [Mass.] Recorder - June 23, 2003. Additional material from Turners Falls H.S. yearbook - Class of 1947, and the Bourbeau family.
Barabara (Bourbeau) Gibson remembers that her Uncle Jean used to like to make model airplanes.
He was educated in Montague public schools.
A Navy veteran of World War II, John Bourbeau left Turners Falls High School for the Navy in May of 1943, and served from June 1943 to February 1946 in the Pacific Theatre, attaining the rank of seaman first class. He was discharged in February of 1946. While a student at Turners Falls High School, "Chick" played two years of football and one year of basketball. After returning home from the Navy, John Bourbeau graduated with the Turners Falls High School Class of 1947.
John was a 48-year employee of International Paper Co. (formerly Strathmore Paper Co.) in Turners Falls. A papermaker, he retired in 1990.
He was a communicant of Saint Anne's Church while growing up in Turners Falls, and as an adult, of Holy Trinity Church.
John enjoyed hunting and fishing, cross-country and downhill skiing, antiques and yard sales. In earlier years, he owned and rode motorcycles. He was a longtime supporter of the Bement School in Deerfield.
John married the former Marianne Schlaufmann Jacobs in Holy Trinity Church, June 13, 1970.
Besides his wife of 33 years, he leaves two sons, Christian A. "Chris" Jacobs and his wife, Carol, and Stephen Jacobs; a brother Charles (deceased) and his wife, Edith; four grandchildren, Matthew C., Andrew C., and Brenden C. Jacobs and Julie Plummer ; several nieces and nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews and two sisters-in-laws, Margaret (Sowell) Bourbeau and Marian (Hill) Bourbeau (deceased).
"The one who rarely speaks is always listened to."
Much of the biography for John Bourbeau came from his obituary by: S.L. Strahan, for the Greenfield [Mass.] Recorder - June 23, 2003. Additional material from Turners Falls H.S. yearbook - Class of 1947, and the Bourbeau family.
Barabara (Bourbeau) Gibson remembers that her Uncle Jean used to like to make model airplanes.
