DUPLISEA, LORNE ADDISON - Lorne Duplisea (pictured here on his 90th birthday) passed away in his 94th year on Monday, June 05, 2006 at the Veterans Health Unit, Fredericton, New Brunswick. The son of Frederick Perry and Clara Jane (Toole) Duplisea, Lorne was born December 29, 1912 in Central Blissville, Sunbury County. He married Margaret Grace Henderson in Holderville in 1935. His only sibling, Lena Cosman of Grand Bay, predeceased him in 1993. Lorne spent his last nine years as a resident of the Fredericton Veterans Health Unit, and his family extends appreciation to its staff for their kind, compassionate and loving care Lorne is survived by his wife of almost 71 years, their four children, 14 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren, namely: wife Margaret of Fredericton; son Hugh (and Sherrille) of Fredericton and their three children (Mark, Heather Bruce and Leigh-Ann Scott) and seven grandchildren; son Ronald of Holderville and his three children (Crispin Mott, Derek and Cheyne Tracey) and eight grandchildren; their daughter Peggy (and Dennis) Hatfield of Springville, Utah and their seven children (Jenny Preston, Amyee Hargett, Sarah Houser, Anna Stewart, Katee Groneman, Kody and Jory) and nine grandchildren; their son Philip (and Terry) of Fredericton and their daughter (Danielle). Lorne is also survived by his niece Betty Hughes, nephew Glendon Cosman, niece Lorna Stallings and several cousins; and through his wife Margaret by 29 additional nieces and nephews plus sisters-in-law Charlotte Fullerton of Long Reach, Jean Holder of Millstream, Gladys Titus of Gorhams Bluff, Irene Henderson of Fairvale, and Anne Henderson of Guelph, Ontario. Lorne Duplisea graduated from Macdonald Consolidated School in Kingston, N.B. in 1930 (where he was Valedictorian and winner of the Governor General's Medal for highest standing) and the Provincial Normal School (Teachers College) in 1931 (where he won the Governor General's Medal for outstanding athlete). In the early part of his life he worked on the Kingston Peninsula as a farmer, a woodsman and a teacher at schools in Holderville and Whites Mills. A member of the New Brunswick Rangers Militia before World War II, Lorne went into active military service as an officer in his regiment on September 1, 1939, eight days before Canada declared war on Germany. He transferred to the Carleton and York Regiment; went overseas to England in July 1940; rose to the officer level of Captain; came back to New Brunswick at the end of 1942 to train troops at Camp Utopia; returned to England in August 1943; rejoined his regiment in Italy in January 1944; and was wounded in battle in September. After the war Lorne moved from Saint John to Fredericton to take a position with the Veterans Land Act, Department of Veterans Affairs. He retired from his 32-year career as Counselor and Regional Supervisor with VLA in 1977. His careers as teacher, soldier and federal civil servant spanned 44 years. Lorne also served many years as Commanding Officer of A-Company, First Battalion Royal New Brunswick Regiment (Carleton York Reserve Fredericton) - retiring with the rank of Major and recognition for over 25 years of service as an officer in the Canadian Forces. In 1985, New Brunswick's Lieutenant Governor Stanley selected then 72-year-old Lorne Duplisea to be the representative of the Carleton York Regiment in the delegation of Canadians being sent overseas to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Italy's liberation. The delegation included several members of Parliament; representatives of several national-level military organizations such as the Royal Canadian Legion, Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and Royal Canadian Air Force; and representatives of several of Canada's military units. Major Lorne Duplisea was proud to accept the honor of representing his Regiment in such a distinguished delegation selected for this historic occasion. Lorne also became President of the New Brunswick Home and School Association, President of the Fredericton Gyro Club, President for a number of terms of the Carleton and York Regiment, Manager (and sometimes Coach) of the Marysville Royals baseball team, a member of the Royal Canadian Legion, a member of the Fredericton Golf and Curling Club, and one of the first members of the Fredericton Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Visitations will be on Thursday, June 8 at McAdam's Select Community Funeral Home, 160 York St., Fredericton at 2-4 PM (starting with a brief Royal Canadian Legion tribute at 2:00), and at 6-8 PM. A funeral service will be held at 12:00 Noon on Friday, June 9 at the Fredericton Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 986 Smythe St., followed by a reception. Interment will be at 3:45 at the Long Reach United Church Cemetery on the Kingston Peninsula, followed shortly thereafter by a reception at the home of Gladys Titus, 55 Gorham's Bluff Road.