Welcome Obituary
I'm guessing, but I think this is the wife of Donald F. Welcome, son of Jonas Raymond Welcome Jr. and Maud "Amanda" Adeline Welcome.
Eva A. Welcome
DATE: January 7, 2004
PUBLICATION: Union Leader, The (Manchester, NH)
EDITION: State
SECTION: Obituary
PAGE: A8
BOSCAWEN -- Eva A. Welcome, 75, died Jan. 5, 2004, at Concord Hospital.
Born in Canterbury, the daughter of Herman-Ray and Alice (Kinney) Colby, she lived in the Canterbury-Boscawen area all of her life.
She graduated in 1946 from Tilton High School. She worked as a telephone operator in Franklin and later as a rural letter carrier in Canterbury. She also was a school bus driver for the Boscawen school district.
She was a member of V.F.W. Auxiliary of Concord, the American Legion Auxiliary of Penacook and the Ezekiel Webster Grange. She loved bingo and enjoyed knitting.
She was predeceased by a son, Thomas Welcome and a daughter, Nancy Welcome, both of Boscawen.
Family members include her husband of 50 years, Donald F. Welcome of Boscawen; three sons, Donald Welcome of Boscawen, Dean and Timothy Welcome, both of Canterbury; a daughter, Laura Hoyt of Northfield; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; nieces, nephews and cousins.
SERVICES: Calling hours at Wendell J. Butt Funeral Home, 42 Washington St. in Penacook are Thursday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m.
Services will be held on Friday at 11 a.m. in the funeral home. The Rev. Henry Frost of Loudon will officiate.