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Shirley Tanguay

April 13, 1937 — April 18, 2011

Berlin, NH

Shirley (Aikens) Tanguay, a longtime resident of Burgess St and presently of St. Regis House in Berlin passed away Monday, April 18, 2011 at Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin following a period of declining health. She was 74.

Born on April 13, 1937 in Berlin, NH, she was the daughter of Clifford and Irene (Davis) Aikens.

She spent her childhood in Berlin and moved to Cascade following the untimely death of her father and the remarriage of her mother to Edwin Blake.

Shirley was a 1955 graduate of Gorham High School and a 1958 graduate of St. Louis Hospital School of Nursing where she attained her Registered Nurse Degree.

On October 4, 1958, she married Eugene L. Tanguay in Berlin and together they raised four children.

She was employed as a Registered Nurse at St. Louis Hospital in Berlin

Her pastimes included berrypicking, playing Bingo, reading, camping, and the annual trip to the Fryeburg Fair. While residing at St. Regis House, she enjoyed her evening walk with her friends.

She enjoyed spending time with her husband and family.

She was a member of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Berlin.

Besides her parents, she is pre-deceased by her husband Eugene Tanguay (1994), and two brothers Gerry Aikens and Robert Aikens and two sisters Joyce Blake Hall and Barbara Blake Nichols.

She leaves two sons Eugene Tanguay and his wife Lorraine of Albany, Maine and David Tanguay and his wife Bea of Anchorage, Alaska Two daughters: Sandra Tanguay and her husband Claude Frenette of Berlin and Nancy Colgan and her husband Robert of Virginia A brother Roland Aikens and his wife Claudine of Southlake, TX.

Grandchildren: Mark Tanguay, Adam Tanguay, Patrick McKelvey, Jenny McKelvey, Erik McKelvey, Brandon Berry and Gregory Berry.

Great-Granddaughters: Macaila Onnen, Hailey McKelvey, and Lillian McKelvey.

Sisters and brothers in Law: Beverly Aikens, Cecile Devost, Lorraine Tanguay, and Maurice and Joanne Tanguay.

Several nieces and nephews.

Funeral Service will be held at 10am Saturday, April 23 in the Parlor of Fleury-Patry Funeral Home, 72 High St., Berlin, NH. Rev. Fran Gardner-Smith, Pastor of St. Barnabas Church will officiate. Burial will follow at the family plot at Holy Family Cemetery in Gorham.

A calling hour will be held from 9:00-10:00am prior to the service at the funeral home (Use School St. entrance).

Memorial donations may be made to: St. Vincent de Paul Nursing Home, c/o Activity Fund, 29 Providence Ave, Berlin, NH, AVH Home Health & Hospice, 59 Page Hill Rd, Berlin, NH or St. Barnabas Church, PO BOX 545, Berlin, NH 03570.

Online guestbook at www.fleury-patry.com.

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