Rest In Peace

ALBERT L. "SONNY" FOURNIER
1934 - 2005




LEWISTON - Colonel Albert L. Fournier, 70, passed away on Saturday, March 12, at Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston.Born in Lewiston in 1934, he was the son of Albert H. Fournier and Eva M. L. He graduated from St. Dominic's High School in 1954, and entered into the Norwich University ROTC program where he was commissioned as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1958. He was a helicopter pilot trained at Liberty Army Air Field, Fort Stewart, Ga. While serving two tours in Vietnam, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, and the Vietnam Cross for Gallantry. After thirty years of service he retired as Colonel with the National Guard Headquarters in Augusta in 1986. He was part of the Military Attaché while stationed in Paris, France, and the Military Attaché in the Congo.He was a great hockey player, loved fishing and hunting, and was an avid coin collector and also loved to travel.He was predeceased by his father and his first wife Doris. Al is survived by his wife Lorette of ; his mother, Eva; his sister, Suzanne and her companion, Stacey, of Scarborough; two stepsons, Tony and wife, Susan, of Livermore, Chuck and wife, Kelly, of Mt. Vernon; one stepdaughter, Sherry of Monmouth; and two step grandchildren, Christine and Jacob .