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Robert Clifford Pelletier
1938 – 2016
SKOWHEGAN — Robert Clifford Pelletier, 78, passed Dec. 30 at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor with his family by his side.
He was born May 14, 1938, in Portland, the son of Edgar Joseph and Phyllis Marie (Cowette) Pelletier. He was educated in the schools of Skowhegan and graduated from Skowhegan High School in 1957. He continued his education at a trade school in Toledo, Ohio, graduating in 1964.
On June 7, 1958, he married Gloria R. Lashon in Skowhegan.
He was employed for many years as a meat cutter and retired from Safeway Store in Arizona in 2002. He worked for First National Stores in Skowhegan and Vermont until 1978. He enjoyed stamp and coin collecting, kayaking, birdwatching, was an avid reader and music lover.
Robert is survived by his wife of 58 years, Gloria R. (Lashon) Pelletier of Skowhegan; three daughters, Ellen M. Greenrock and husband, Chris, of Panama City, Fla., Laurie A. Smith and husband, Gene, of Sun City, Ariz., and Kelly J. Garcia and husband, Joe, of Peoria, Ariz. two sons, Robert C. Pelletier Jr. and wife, Norma, of El Mirage, Ariz., and Jeffrey A. Pelletier and wife, Brenda, of Glendale, Ariz.; 10 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; sister, Charlene Carey and husband, Eugene, of Skowhegan.
He was predeceased by his parents; brother, Ronnie Pelletier; and sister, Jeanine Casey.
In lieu of flowers, friends wishing may make donations in Robert’s memory to CHCS’s Home Health & Hospice, 42 Cedar St., Bangor, www.chcs-Me.org
Arrangements under the care and direction of Dan & Scott’s Cremation & Funeral Service, 445 Waterville Road, Skowhegan.
