BRUNSWICK – George W. Duval, 84, of Hickory Drive, died at his home Saturday, June 11, following a short illness.

He was born in Brunswick, on Dec. 31, 1920, a son of Wilfred J. and Eva M. Dehetre Duval and was educated in the local schools.

He served in the Civilian Conservation Corps in Princeton, for a year beginning in 1937. He then worked at the Verney Mill in Brunswick where he learned to weave. A year later he entered the Bath Iron Works as a driller.

In 1943, he entered the U.S. Army Air Corps and served in Casablanca and Algiers in North Africia during World War II.

On May 30, 1950, he married Constance L. Bernier, and they made their home in Brunswick.

He entered into a partnership with his father and brothers and bought the former Helie’s Bakery on Mill Street in 1946. For the next nine years, Duval’s Bakery sold bread, both retail and wholesale, under the trade name of Mel-O-Toast in the mid-coast area. With the Verney Mill closing in 1955, Duval’s Bakery closed the wholesale division and continued as a retail outlet and coffee shop on Mill Street, until Maine State Highway Department, by eminent domain, bought the property to build the U.S. Route 1 Maine Street underpass in 1960. The bakery was relocated to Cushing Street and the business sold in 1978.

He retired from Brunswick School Maintenance Department in 1993.

He was a communicant of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church; a 4th degree member of the Knights of Columbus; and a member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Brunswick Lodge of Elks.

He is survived by a brother, Raymond and his wife, Georgette Duval, of Brunswick; a sister, Laurence Ouellette of Woonsocket, R.I.; and several nieces and nephews.

He is predeceased by his wife who died Jan. 1, 1999, and a brother, Roland Duval, who died Sept. 21, 1975.