This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Blair, Reed, Hoyt, Horobin, Marshal, Lester, Gonyea Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/1ME.2ACEB/1926 Message Board Post: WALLINGFORD, Conn. — Merle H. Blair, age 63, husband of Sally (Reed) Blair, died Friday morning, August 18, 2000 at the John Dempsey Health Center in Farmington, CT. He was born October 10, 1936, in Peru, N.Y., the son of Myrtle (Hoyt) Blair and the late Arthur Blair. He graduated from Saranac Central School in Saranac, N.Y. He was a U.S. Army Veteran. He was employed at Pratt & Whitney in North Haven, Conn., for 34 years as a machine specialist, retiring in December of 1999. He is survived by his wife, Sally Blair of Wallingford, Conn.; his mother, Myrtle Blair of Saranac; two sons, Scott & Brian Blair; one daughter and her husband, Lynn & John Horobin, all of Wallingford; five brothers, Robert Blair and his wife, Patricia; Larry Blair, Richard Blair and his wife Leata, all of Morrisonville; Chester Blair and his wife Alberta, of Georgia, Vt.; and Fred Blair and his wife Monica of Saranac; 3 sisters and their husbands, Shirley & Gerry Marshal of Morrisonville; Elsie & Leslie Lester of Saranac, N.Y.; and Byrle & Donald Gonyea of Hudson Falls, N.Y.; a sister in law, Jean Blair of Morrisonville; and several nieces and nephews. Besides his father, he was predeceased by three brothers, Raymond, Leon and Gerald Blair. Visiting hours will be held one hour prior to the funeral, scheduled for this morning at 11 a.m. at the Spears Funeral Home on Dickinson Ave. in Enosburg Falls, Vt. Interment will follow in the Sheldon Village Cemetery. For those who wish, contributions in his memory may be made to The Connecticut Hospice, Inc., Farmington Office, Suite 229, Farmington, Conn., 06032.