ALSTEAD, N.H. (AP) – Hundreds of people on Friday packed the town’s Third Congregation Church on Friday for a memorial service for a husband and wife swept away by floods earlier this month.
Workers clearing debris piles found Sally Canfield’s body Tuesday along the southern banks of the Cold River, about four miles from her home. Her husband, Tim Canfield, has not been found and is presumed dead.
“Tim, to me, is someone I always looked up to,” said Terry Canfield, Tim Canfield’s brother, said on Friday. “He made me laugh at times nobody made me laughed. He’s going to be missed.”
The Canfields refused to evacuate their house, which was washed away the weekend of Oct. 8-9 when the Warren Lake dam overflowed.
Tim and Sally Canfield grew up in the area and were high school sweethearts. Their son, Cory Canfield, 22, was with his parents shortly before the heavy rains began, but had left to return to college before serious flooding happened.
Sally Canfield worked as a nurse at Cheshire Regional Medical Center in Keene. Tim Canfield worked for firearms manufacturer Sturm, Ruger & Co., for many years.
The body of another missing man, Spencer Petty, was found last Saturday in a cornfield in Langdon.
In addition to Tim Canfield, kayaker Thomas Mangieri of Antrim, who was last seen in the North Branch River, was missing and presumed dead.
Others killed in the flooding were Steven Day of Unity and Ashley Gates of Claremont, both 20, and William Seale, 64. Day and Gates died when their SUV plunged off a washed-out bridge into a river in Unity, while Seale apparently drowned when a river overflowed in Langdon. He was found in the same cornfield as Petty.
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