Reginald R. Roy

Dover - Reginald "Reggie" R. Roy of 11R Second St., died peacefully Monday, March 10, 2008, at the Hyder Family Hospice House in Dover, NH, after a long illness. He was born in Dover on Sept. 3, 1942, the son of the late Alfred and Rose (Labrecque) Roy. Reggie was a graduate of Newmarket High School, class of 1961. He was very proud of his country and served 22 years in the United States Army, with a tour of duty in Vietnam. In his military career, he was a Communications Specialist, and had been stationed in England, Poitiers France, Fort Detrick MD, the Pentagon, Nellingen Barracks (Stuttgart) Germany, Fort Riley, KS, and Kaiserslautern Germany. He retired Seargeant First Class in 1983. After the Army, he worked for the United States Postal Service, at Portsmouth P & DC as a mail processing clerk until his retirement from there in 2006. He was a contributing member of the American Legion Post #8 for 27 years. Reggie enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren, collecting stamps and coins, playing the lottery, and he loved watching CSI. The family would like to thank the doctors and nurses at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital for doing their best to make Reggie more comfortable in his last few weeks. In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by his brothers, Benjamin, Ronald, and Robert, and his infant daughter Rebecca. Reggie was kind and generous and was loved by so many. He will be greatly missed. Survivors include his wife of 19 years, Linda Roy; his daughter and son-in-law, Marylin (Roy) and Brian Cote, of South Berwick, ME; his daughters Christen Tyler and Brenda Tyler, of Dover; his grandchildren, Nicholas Cote of South Berwick, ME, and Carlee Harder, of Dover; his mother-in-law, Gladys Hatfield of Dover; his sister and brother-in-law, Monica and Ronald Dumais of Rollinsford, NH; his brother and sister-in-law, Alfred and Rosemary Roy of South Weymouth, MA; his sister-in-law, Marilynne Roy of Stratham, NH; his sister-in-laws and brother-in-laws, Shirley and Michael Lawrence of Barrington, NH, and Claudia and Tom Dean, of St. Cloud, FL; his first wife, Michele Holcomb, of Dover, NH; longtime friends of the family, Stacey Gallagher and Jamie Pendexter; and several other good friends, cousins, nieces and nephews. A celebration of Reggie's life with military honors will be held, Saturday, April 26th at 1:00 pm at, Lebanon-North Berwick Baptist Church, on Little River Rd., Lebanon, ME 04027. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the church.