1917-2003

LIVERMORE – Ormond Gross, Sr., 86, a resident of Livermore, left this world to join his Lord in heaven on Thursday, Nov. 27 with his loving family by his side.

He was born in Jay on April 11, 1917, the son of Calvin and Rosie Skeeter Gross. On Sept. 19, 1936 he married Myrtilla Hannon in Phillips. She passed away on Oct. 21, 1994. In his younger years, he was a logger and a logging truck driver. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the Pacific. In 1955, he worked for International Paper Company, Otis Division as a rewinder operator, which later became known as James River Otis. He retired in 1983.

Ormond’s greatest passion, second to his wife, was hunting, fishing and camping with his wife and sons at Harrison and Roach Pond.

He is survived by: one son, Ormond Gross, Jr. and his companion Norma Welch of Mt. Vernon; three daughters, Florice Plog of Madrid, Thelma Sanford and her husband, Richard, of Greene and Mary Turcotte and her husband, Armand, of Livermore; two sisters, Gladys Mains of Farmington and Gloria Lorey and her husband, Jerry of Industry; a brother, Franklin Hunnington of Phillips; a daughter-in-law, Virginia Kerns Gross of Turner; 17 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his wife, two sons, Russell and Richard Gross, brothers, Linwood and Alvin and sisters, Mura Marson, Vera Thomas and Elsie Hunnington LaPlante.