LEWISTON – Colonel Albert L. Fournier, 70, of 395 Wilson Pond Road, N. Monmouth, passed away on Saturday, March 12, at Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston.

Born in Lewiston on May 5, 1934, he was the son of Albert H. Fournier and Eva Malo LaCroix.

He graduated from St. Dominic’s High School in 1954, and entered into the Norwich University ROTC program where he was commissioned as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1958. He was a helicopter pilot trained at Liberty Army Air Field, Fort Stewart, Ga. While serving two tours in Vietnam, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, and the Vietnam Cross for Gallantry. After thirty years of service he retired as Colonel with the National Guard Headquarters in Augusta in 1986. He was part of the Military Attach while stationed in Paris, France, and the Military Attach in the Congo.

He was a great hockey player, loved fishing and hunting, and was an avid coin collector and also loved to travel.

He was predeceased by his father and his first wife Doris Berube Fournier.

Al is survived by his wife Lorette of N. Monmouth; his mother, Eva Malo La Croix of Lewiston; his sister, Suzanne LaCroix and her companion, Stacey Anderson, of Scarborough; two stepsons, Tony Towns and wife, Susan, of Livermore, Chuck Towns and wife, Kelly, of Mt. Vernon; one stepdaughter, Sherry Arbour of Monmouth; and two step grandchildren, Christine Towns and Jacob Garand.

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