Marcel E. Danais

Berlin, NH

Mr. Marcel E. Danais of 17 Noury Street died Friday evening (July 1, 2011) at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center following a long illness. He was 68.

He was born in Glenwood Springs, Colorado on July 1, 1943, the son of Dr. Edouard & Pauline Vallee Danais.

Mr. Danais attended grammer school at Guardian Angel in Berlin and was a graduate of St. Francis Prep School in Biddeford, Maine. He was also a graduate of St. Anselm's College in Manchester, NH. In 1966, he graduated from New England Institute of Anatomy in Boston with a Degree in Mortuary Science.

On May 20, 1967, he married the former Gertrude Marois of Berlin.

From 1966-1983, he had been employed at the Rand Funeral Home in Hanover, NH as a Funeral Director. While in Hanover, he was very active in the Hanover Youth Hockey and Little League Programs.

Mr. Danais was a former member of the Hanover Lions Club, the Saint Denis Parish Council and the Executive Committee of the New Hampshire Funeral Director's Association.

In 1983, he moved back to Berlin and became employed as a Funeral Director and Embalmer with the Fleury-Patry Funeral Homes of Berlin & Gorham, NH. He was a longtime member of the Berlin Rotary Club, a communicant of St. Anne's Church now known as St. Anne's Church of Good Shepherd Parish in Berlin, and the Knights of Columbus.

For the past 10 years, he enjoyed being a volunteer at Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin.

Besides his loving wife of 44 years, he leaves a son Michael Danais and his wife Karla of Tuftonboro, NH, a daughter Nicole Drouin and her husband Jean of Derry, NH; six grandchildren: Emma, Sam, & Will Danais, Avery, Mason, & Hunter Drouin. A sister Mrs. Raymond (Suzanne) Danais Lemieux of Shelburne, NH, an aunt Mrs. Paul (Yvette) Sullivan of Manchester, NH. A sister-in-law Jeanne Danais of Plymouth, MA. Several nieces & nephews and many cousins.

Besides his parents, he is pre-deceased by a brother Guy Danais.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11am Wednesday, July 6 at St. Anne Church of Good Shepherd Parish, Pleasant St, Berlin, NH. Burial will follow at the family plot at St. Kieran's Cemetery in Berlin.

Friends and relatives may call from 2-4pm and 7-9pm Tuesday, July 5 at Fleury-Patry Funeral Home, 72 High St, Berlin, NH. (Use School Street entrance).

Contributions may be made in his memory to Berlin Youth Hockey Association, PO BOX 571, Berlin, NH 03570 or to Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock , One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03576 or www.chadkids.org.

Online guestbook at www.fleury-patry.com.