BRUNSWICK – Laurent J. Brochu, 85, a former resident of Livermore Falls, died Thursday, May 31, at Parkview Adventist Hospital, where he had been a patient for one week. He had resided with his daughter Nancy for the past two years in Bowdoin.

He was born in Chisholm on Jan. 12, 1922, the son of Arthur P. and Laura (Bergeron) Brochu and was educated in the Jay school system. He worked in the Civilian Conservation Camps and served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the European Theater. He was captured in May 1944 in Florence, Italy, and was released in May 1945.

On June 2, 1946, he married Jeanne B. Fournier at St. Rose of Lima Church in Jay. She passed away on April 19, 2001. He worked for International Paper Co. at the Otis and Androscoggin Mills in Jay from January 1946, retiring in 1984 from the shipping department.

He was a communicant of St. Rose of Lima Church in Jay, a member of the American POW Maine Chapter, a life member of the VFW, Post 3335 of Jay, state of Maine VFW Colorguard, Amvets, Post 33 of Jay, DAV of Augusta, a 3rd and 4th degree of the Knights of Columbus, Council 320 and the IP Quarter Century Club.

He is survived by two sons, Daniel Brochu, and his wife, Monica, of Wayne and the Rev. Paul Brochu, and his wife, Darla, of Chatellerault, France; a daughter, Nancy Freeman, and her husband, Gary, of Bowdoin; eight grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; three sisters, Theresa Pelletier of Aurora, Colo., Priscilla White of Jay and Auburn and Bernice Colwell, and her husband, Harold, of Norfolk, Conn.; a sister-in-law, Ann Brochu of Winsted, Conn.; he will also be missed by his companion, Evelina Caron of Livermore Falls.

He was predeceased by two sisters, Margaret Fournier and Muriel Mallett; and a brother, Gerald Brochu.