LACONIA---Arline Rowe Garger, 86, of 33 Cedar Street, died at Lakes Region General Hospital on Friday, September 6, 2013.
Arline was born April 23, 1927 in Laconia, N.H., the daughter of the late Valere and Catherine (Bryson) Vachon.
Arline had been a resident of Laconia most of her life and was employed as an executive assistant with Normandin, Cheney & O’Neil for over 30 years and eventually retired in NH in 1996.
Survivors include her brother, Lynn Vachon, and his wife, Nikki, of Moultonborough; one sister, Carol Hildreth, and her husband, Howard, of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, her daughter, Elizabeth Gray, and her husband, James, of Laconia, son, David Rowe, and his wife, Kathleen, of Westfield, VT and son, Casey Rowe, of Laconia and three grandchildren: Aliza Gray of Laconia, Jasmyn Gray of Laconia and Nikki Gaudreault of Goffstown as well as several nieces, nephews, extended family and friends. She was predeceased by her husband, Allan F. Rowe, Jr., a son Allan F. Rowe III and elder brother, Donald Vachon.
There will be no calling hours.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, September 13, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. at St. Andre Bessette Parish at St. Joseph Church 30 Church Street Laconia, N.H.
For those who wish, the family requests that memorial donations be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P0 Box 1000 Dept 142, Memphis, TN 38101-9908.
Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. is assisting the family with the arrangements.