Marcel Turmelle:  

Hi everybody, Well, we're all getting older now. Many won't remember me cause I moved away from Waterville at about the Eight grade level and didn't return to town till my senior year. Even then I only stayed in school for half the year. I always new I would be a carpenter so I thought the hell with school and went to work swinging a hammer. I did continue to go to carpenter class at the high school and finished that. Then I joined the Navy with the Seabees, Finished at the top of my class at 'A' school, then got stationed on Guam. It was to late to go to Vietnam by then, but I was around for the evacuation of Saigon and helped the refugee's as they came to Guam to settle in America. After my hitch in the Navy, back to Waterville and built up a small construction business called 'Sunrise Construction Co.' Later built up a remodeling business with my brothers and eventually joined the carpenters union. Worked building paper machines at S.D. Warren, Helped refuel the Maine Yankee Atomic Power Plant several times, I liked that job. Met this chick from Hawaii, Went out with her awhile, broke down, asked her to marry me, and like a fool, she said 'Yes'. Moved to Hawaii, and about ten years later had our...Expand for more