Vera N. LaPorte

LaPorte, Vera N., 94, died February 3, 2007 at a Presque Isle healthcare facility. Arrangements are in the care of Duncan-Graves Funeral Home, Presque Isle.     Presque Isle – Vera N. LaPorte, 94, died Feb. 3, 2007 at a Presque Isle healthcare facility. She was born October 25, 1912 in Adelaide, PA, the daughter of Scott and Dora C. Colbert.
    Vera had been employed as a guardette doing security work for the B & O Railroad during WW II. Later she worked at the Roma Café in Presque Isle.
    Surviving her is a son, James W. LaPorte and his wife Vickie of Milwaukie, Oregon; their son, Trieste and his children; James, Jeffrey, Philip and Vera; a daughter, Gloria J. O’Lore and her husband Joe of Presque Isle; their son and his wife, John and Linda O’Lore of Portland;  their daughter Sophia and his daughters, Pamela and Kristen; their daughters and their husbands, Gina and Jack Moorhouse and their children; Ethan and Marisa of Manchester, NH, and Mia and Rocco Aceto; and their children Giovanni and Gianna of Oviedo, FL; a sister, Mildred Cooley of Ohio; special friends, Helen Clark, Effie Lyons and Mabel MacBride and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
    Funeral services will be held later in the spring. Arrangements are in the care of the Duncan-Graves Funeral Home. Gifts in her memory may be sent to the Central Aroostook Humane Society, P.O. Box 1115, Presque Isle, ME 04769, Sister Mary O’Donnell Shelter, P.O. Box 1753, Presque Isle, ME 04769. An online guest book is provided at www.duncan-graves.com.