Avis de décès de David Therrien - Nécrologie - MesAieux.com

SAVANNAH, GA - Following an intensive battle with cancer, Waterbury reared and Savannah Ga. resident David Alan Charlemagne Therrien, has followed his mother Connie, dad Garfield "Joe", and sister Corinne, to his eternal reward. Born in Burlington in 1951, he lived his childhood, teen and young adult years in Waterbury residing at the family's 25 North Main Street residence across from the Waterbury Public Library. He attended local elementary and union high schools, and later enrolled at the Cambridge Center For Adult Education. As a teenager he worked at the Waterbury Super Duper Market, State Hospital, and Park Restaurant and often assisted his mother who was an executive at the Squier's family-owned Waterbury radio station WDEV. She also ran the Squier's maple sugar business. His dad was a highly skilled mason. Beginning in his late teens he began a lifelong love affair with world travel. At varying times he resided for extended periods in places such as Cairo, and Alexandria, Egypt; Lindos, Greece; Amsterdam, Holland; and Montreal, Canada. During these years he was engaged in the antiquarian business. When finally returning to the U.S. he continued his interest in art and antiques and coupled same with real estate development. His career took him to numerous cities, among them Cambridge, Phillipston and Cape Cod, Mass., Raleigh, N.C.; Savannah, Ga., and Tyler, Texas, but he always returned at least annually to Waterbury to visit at some length with family and friends. No matter where he lived, one would often count friends and family from Vermont especially and elsewhere as his guests. His professional career included stints as a travel agent trained at and employed by then Crimson Travel's main Harvard Square corporate headquarters, and with the Massachusetts Office of Tourism. He headed corporate sales for Harvard Design of Cambridge, a high-end custom contract upholstered furniture company. More recently, he focused his activities around family, becoming a caregiver to his mother, sister Corinne, and aunt Norma Wright during protracted illnesses. In these latter instances he relocated temporarily to both North Carolina and Texas. A near decade-long residency on Cape Cod included homes and business activities in both Truro and Provincetown.For several years he volunteered as a driver with the Outer Cape Meals On Wheels, returning to the Cape sometimes from locations far and wide to do his run. His team partner was Heaton Vorse, son of the journalist and liberal crusader Mary Heaton Vorse. Heaton sang the opening and recurring song, "I don't want to play in your yard." in the 1981, Warren Beatty film "Reds" which featured the bohemian world on the Outermost Cape which was inhabited by his mother and New York social radicals of the early 20th century. Margaret Whiting, songstress of "Moonlight In Vermont," was also at David's table during engagements at one of his business partnerships. When neighbor Norman Mailer embarked on moviemaking, David supplied him with both site locations and furnishings. His years living in Cambridge and on the Cape were times filled with rubbing shoulders with stars and the famous. He never became overly charmed or enamored with any of it, preferring the company of lifelong Vermont friends and family. Throughout his all-too-brief life he collected, wrote and read poetry. His knowledge of the world of pop music from rock and roll, to jazz and rap was encyclopedic. He could recite chapter and verse about the Beatles and knew the lyrics to all their music from the very beginning in Liverpool to Paul McCartney's latest. He could do the same for scores of other groups, duos and individuals. He read history voraciously, and could hold his own with any Ivy League educated scholar, which living in Cambridge he often did. Several of his real estate projects involved historic preservation activities. He renovated and restored several Cambridge and other national historic landmark properties. That fascination with our nation's heritage extended to areas other than development. During the last few years of his life he was active in the restoration of Savannah's 1855 Pulaski Monument and the establishment of an organization to conserve and endow its upkeep and further the spirit of international cooperation engendered in its very nature and purpose. Having been nominated for the "Pulaski - O'Neill Medal" in 2007 for his extensive contributions to same, he will be awarded the medal posthumously during ceremonies to be held in Savannah during October, 2009, the 230th Anniversary of Pulaski's death during the Revolutionary War's 1779 Siege of Savannah.Brigadier General Count Casimir Pulaski, born a Polish noble founded America's Cavalry, and died a hero's death fighting for American liberty. It was a cause David embraced. David is survived by his sister Susan Therrien Chaney and nephew Seth Chaney of Tyler, Texas; sister Lisa Therrien of Waitsfield; brother Bruce Therrien of Hardwick; and nieces Emily Therrien of Hardwick, Kristina Bickford of Boston, Mass., along with Kathryn and Kassandra Bickford of Waitsfield and nephews Alan Therrien of Hardwick and Kenneth Bickford of Readfield, Maine.His extended family includes numerous cousins and other relatives throughout Vermont along with former sister-in-law, Patty Sullivan of Danville, brother-in-law Kelly Chaney of Tyler, Texas, and partner Francis X. Hayes of Savannah , Ga.A sung Funeral Mass will be celebrated for David followed by Prayers For The Deceased on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008, 10 a.m., at Saint Andrew Roman Catholic Church, 109 South Main St., Waterbury by the Reverend Father Jerome Mercure, pastor. Afterwards friends and family will gather at the Park Row Cafe, a favorite of David's when owned and operated by the Izor family, to share some food, fellowship, and memories and to celebrate his life. His ashes together with those of his beloved Cavalier King Charles Terrier Bradelbane Martlet D'Or ( "Christian" ) will be spread at several locations in the Stowe, Waterbury, Moscow triangle which he himself chose just before his passing. In lieu of flowers donations in David's memory to any of the following are welcome: Saint Andrew's, Rev. Jerome Mercure, Pastor, 109 South Main Street; Waterbury Public Library, 28 North Main Street; Wesley United Methodist Church, 56 South Main Street, all in Waterbury, VT 0576 Also: Hospice Savannah, Suzanne Wages, Chaplain, P.O.Box 13190, Savannah, Georgia 31416-0190; Saint Joseph's Hospital Oncology Unit, Rev. Albert Fisher, Chaplain, 11705 Mercy Blvd., Savannah, GA 31219