1922-2012

TEMPLE, N.H. — LeRoy L Hatt, born February 3, 1922 in Kingfield, Maine; a great and good spirit, departed this earth Oct.26, at the age of 90 years. As a man, husband, father, and friend, Roy had a commanding positive influence on those who knew him.

Roy’s early years were spent in the small northern New Hampshire Town of Errol. In 1940, he enlisted in the army, serving five years, in part as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division in Europe. After WWII, he attended the Lee Institute and Wentworth Institute in Boston. He retired from GTE Sylvania after working some thirty years as a draftsman. A family man, outdoorsman, and craftsman, Roy enjoyed woodworking, canoeing, hiking and camping. A longtime member of the North American Family campers Association, he served as President of the Pine Tree Chapter in Buckfield from 1990 to 1992.

In 1948 Roy married Elizabeth Hope Stanwood of Topsfield Massachusetts, his wife of sixty years. They had three children.

Roy is survived by a daughter, Barbara A. of Oxford; his son, Peter E. of West Newbury, MA.; his son Roger D.; and his wife Iphigenia of Temple, N.H.; a grandson, Charles A. and a great-granddaughter Danielle of Indianapolis, IN.; a step-granddaughter, Catherine McManus and her husband Daniel; and their three girls, Rachel, Erica and Demitra, of Ipswich, MA.; a nephew, George A. Stanwood, III of Manchester, N.H; Virginia (Walker) Hatt and Dean Walker of Bethel ME.