Maurice--Stratton's Barber Linda's collection
Man at left is Maurice Nadeau Linda's collection
Man at left is Maurice Nadeau Linda's collection
Man at right is Maurice Nadeau Linda's collection
Man at left is Maurice Nadeau Linda's collection
Maurice Nadeau Linda's collection
Maurice and "tante Anne" (Gelley) Arseneault with Noella's children l/r: Andre, Madeleine and Helene Felix's collection
Felix's collection
Felix's collection
Maurice Madeau Linda's collection
Imagin getting this about one of your sons. Linda's collection
Maurice Nadeau's internment at the upper Stratton, Maine cemetary Linda's collection
This is the Maurice that I remember Linda's collection Quick sketches I'm sure that Felix remembers Maurice more than I do since Maurice boarded at Raymond's in Stratton while getting his start in the world. Maurice had a little barber shop and I enjoyed going there to have my hair cut. I was very impressed with his hoby of tying fishing flies in his spare time. He gave them out to customers. I can't say that I knew him well but he had a very nice way with children and talked with them--not just to them. I don't know if he was drafted or enlisted in the army during the Korean Conflict. He died in England while in the military following a poker game. He had been hit on the head with a shovel and his body thrown into a river after being divested of his money. I remember the sadness and pain shown by all at the funeral in Stratton. He was the youngest of the boys and probably a favorite to all. I felt especially sad because I had no momento of him until a recent gift from Felix and Marcel of some of Maurice's barbering tools. I use the shaving brush to clean the inside of this computer. I think Maurice would have liked the thought that his brush was being used this way. The manual clippers are not used but always in the bathroom. I think of Maurice often--his impact on me was positive, although not profound. Richard Nadeau Maurice and I were very close. We had 3 years difference. I always like him a lot -- never remenbered having an argument with him. After my mother died we stayed on the farm for a while, dad wanted him to try it out, but Maurice didn't like it, so he decided to go to Montreal to a barber school. After he got his diploma he went to Stratton and stayed at Raymond and Ida 's and was a barber for while in Stratton. I dont know how long after ,he came to stay with us in Portland Maine, and he had a job as a barber. About 9 months later he joined the service for 3 years, and when his time was over he sign up again. Tol this day I never forgot him he was a very nice person. Claudine
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