AUBURN – Leo R. Moreau, 84, passed away on Aug. 31, at the Hospice House of Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice Services.

He was born in Lewiston, on March 29, 1923, the youngest of nine children to Euzebe and Anna (Fortier) Moreau. He was educated in Lewiston schools. While serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he was injured in Italy and received the Purple Heart.

He had been employed in the dry cleaning business for 42 years until his retirement in 1985. During that time, he and his wife owned and operated Swan’s Tourist Home for nine years. He married Marie Ange Dumais on Nov. 23, 1946.

He was a member of Sacred Heart Parish in Auburn.

He is survived by his wife of Auburn; two daughters, Diane Chabot, and husband, Dick, and Christine McMahon, and husband, Michael, all of Lewiston; one son, Roland Moreau, and his wife, Jane, of Houston, Texas; six grandchildren, Dick Doyle, Debbie Cotton, Penny Howard, Dawn Beaucaire, Danita Mathieu and Danielle Nickerson; five great-grandchildren, Deanna Maxim, Sarah McMahon-Boulet, Brea Mathieu, and twins, Alexis and Abigail Beaucaire; a sister-in-law, Ida Dumais; two brothers-in-law, Antonin (Pete) Dumais of Lewiston and Brother Bertrand Dumais of Ste. Foy, Quebec; and many nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his parents; three sisters, Maria Clara Moreau, Laura Huard and Lucia Perkins; and five brothers, Joseph, Lucien, Robert, Rosaire and Aime.