SCARBOROUGH — Geraldine R. Landry, 93, of Saco, died peacefully after a brief illness on Sunday, March 4, at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House. She was surrounded during her final days by her loving family.

She was born Feb. 19, 1919, in St. Albans, to Clarence E. Hanson and Maude (Foss) Hanson, the youngest of five children. Her siblings were Levi, Joseph, Pauline and Hildreth, all of whom predeceased her. She was educated in local schools and graduated from the N.H. Fay High School in Dexter, Class of 1939.

During World War II, Geraldine was trained in aviation instrument repair and worked at the Army Air Force base in Presque Isle, installing and repairing instruments on bombers flying to and from the war in Europe.

Following the war, she owned a millinery shop in Dexter until she married Horace Landry in 1948, and immediately began her family — seven children in 10 years. Thereafter, she devoted her life almost entirely to her family and the countless friends who came to know her ready laughter and tolerant, non-judgmental demeanor. She also managed to run an answering service in Southbridge for a few years, and a boarding home in Dexter.

Geraldine had a lifelong interest in horses and horseracing, and the products of her knitting are highly prized in the family. Her greatest legacy is the example of her unconditional love that she gave so unsparingly to her family and friends.

Surviving her are her children and their spouses and partners, Scott Landry and Brenda, Russell Landry and Brenda, Terrence Landry and Pauline, Mary (Landry) Potter and Roderick, Vicki (Landry) Edgerly and Everett Parker, Robert Landry and Rhonda Nordenson, and Katherine Landry and Ben Watkins; 18 grandchildren, Seth Landry, Casey Philbrick, Brooks Landry, Renee Landry, Jason Williams, Michelle Landry, Elicia Dione, Justin Winslow, Levi Landry, Caleb Landry, Taylor Landry, Heidi Pare, Heather Edgerly, Grant Edgerly, Molly Dall, Joshua Hughes, Sarah Potter and Gabriel Potter; 10 great-grandchildren, Olivia Williams, Caden Landry, Stephanie Pare, Tiffany Pare, Bethany Pare, Parker Pare, Beck Edgerly, Bobby Dall, Riley Dall, Charlie Dall and Natalie Flannery; two more are expected; finally, she is survived by many nieces and nephews in both her own family and Horace’s that she loved very much.

Her husband Horace predeceased her in 2007.

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