SCARBOROUGH – Robert B. LaRocque, of Cape Porpoise, born in Ludlow, Mass., son of Burton LaRocque and Irene Gamache LaRocque, died Sunday, Dec. 25, 2005, at the Maine Veterans’ Home in Scarborough, after a long illness.

Robert attended schools in Lee, Mass., and graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a degree in electrical engineering in 1950. He was a member of Phi Kappa Theta.

He was employed by General Electric in Pittsfield, Mass., and Hudson Falls, N.Y., as a test and design engineer. He later joined Peter J. Sweitzer Co. in Lee, Mass., and then Boise Cascade in Rumford. He retired after 25 years as electrical superintendent.

Having summered at Goose Rocks Beach for a number of years, he and his wife moved to Kennebunk in 1986 and more recently to Cape Porpoise.

Robert served in the South Pacific in the Marine Corps during World War II. He received the Purple Heart as a result of combat injuries in the invasion of Iwo Jima.

He was a life member of the Knights of Columbus and a charter member of St. Martha’s Knights of Columbus in Kennebunk.

He was a communicant of St. Martha’s Catholic Church, Kennebunk.

He was also president and a charter member of the Kiwanis Club in Lee, Mass.

He enjoyed reading, walking, and golf, and was a member of the Biddeford Saco Country Club.

He leaves his wife, Jean O’Malley LaRocque; a son, Robert, of Westminster, Colo., and a daughter, Deidre Spang, of Cape Porpoise; and five grandchildren.

He was predeceased by two brothers, Raymond and Francis, of Lee, Mass.