Armond A. Thebarge
1925 – 2009
SCARBOROUGH — Armond A. Thebarge, 83, of Windham died Tuesday, Oct. 20, at Gosnell House after a brief illness.
He was born Nov. 4, 1925, in Anson, the eldest son of Jerry and Leana (Coro) Thebarge.
During his senior year in high school, he entered the U.S. Army Air Corps serving as a top turret gunner on a B-26 bomber in the European Theater during World War II. When he returned from the military service, he finished high school and went on the graduate from the University of Maine at Orono in 1954. He moved to the Portland area, where he worked in the insurance business for 33 years.
He is survived by his wife, Jacqueline (Russell) Thebarge of Windham; his children, Anne Horprich and her husband, John, of Windham and Jim Thebarge and his wife, Stacy, of South Portland; 11 grandchildren; five brothers, Ernest Thebarge and his wife, Lois, Walter Thebarge and his wife, Betty, Edmund Thebarge and his wife, Lorraine, Jeffery Thebarge and his wife, Merlene and Edwin and his wife, Crystal; five sisters, Eva Thebarge, Evelyn Leeman, Lena Pratt and her husband, Matt, Florence Gorman and Evangeline “Beanie” Richardson; two brothers-in-law, Rolland Moulton and Gene Boyce; and many nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by his first wife, Beatrice; and two sisters, Lydia Moulton and Grace Boyce.