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MEILLEUR, Paul Vincent 1 2 3 4 5
Married, divorced and then remarried Dorothy Emeleen Wilson.
Paul married Dorothy Emeleen WILSON, daughter of Harry Leonard WILSON and Agnes Maud Christobel ROCKETT, on 19 Feb 1925 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. The marriage ended in Divorce in 1925. (Dorothy Emeleen WILSON was born on 19 Dec 1906 in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, died on 24 Oct 1977 in Clare, Clare County, Michigan and was buried on 26 Oct 1977 in Maple Grove Cemetery, Harrison, Clare County, Michigan.) The cause of her death was Stroke.
• Alt. Marriage: Alt. Marriage, 31 Dec 1934, Detroit, Michigan.
Paul next married Dorothy Emeleen WILSON, daughter of Harry Leonard WILSON and Agnes Maud Christobel ROCKETT, on 31 Dec 1934 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. (Dorothy Emeleen WILSON was born on 19 Dec 1906 in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, died on 24 Oct 1977 in Clare, Clare County, Michigan and was buried on 26 Oct 1977 in Maple Grove Cemetery, Harrison, Clare County, Michigan.) The cause of her death was Stroke. |
1 1920 US Census (District 305, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan). Surety: 4. Lists Oliva (as Levi, age 43, b. MI [incorrect]), wife Ada (age 42, b. Canada), and children Raymond (age 15, b. MI), Paul (age 13, b. MI), Charles (age 9, b. MI), Agnes (age 9, b. MI), and William (age 2, b. MI). Also in the household are nephew Roy Thomas [son of Ada's sister, Matilda] (age16, b. MI), and Ada's mother, Marguerite [Godin] Goupille (age 68, b. Canada). Oliva is listed as a "steam fitter" for an auto company. Roy is also working as a "stock cuter(?)" at an auto plant. Oliva incorrectly indicates that both of his parents were born in Michigan [they were born in Canada]. Ada indicates that she came to the U.S. in 1882 and was naturalized in 1905. Marguerite indicates that she came to the U.S. in 1882 and was not naturalized.
2 1930 US Census, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. Surety: 4. Lists Oliva (as Levi, age 55), wife Ada (age 52), son Paul (age 24), son Charles (age 20), daughter Agnes (age 20), and son William (age 14), living in Detroit. Oliva is listed as a "supervisor" at the "city gas company." Paul is listed as a "bus driver" for the "city bus company." Charles is listed as a "truck driver" for the "Buscott Company." Agnes is listed as a "telephone operator" for a "telephone company." Paul had been married to Dorothy Wilson in 1924, had a daughter who died in infancy, and then divorced. They would remarry in 1934 and remain together until Dorothy's death in 1977.
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Morning Sun, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan (Mt. Pleasant, Isabella County, Michigan). Surety: 4. PAUL V. MEILLEUR - Paul V. Meilleur, 84, of Mt. Pleasant, died Wednesday, April 24, 1991, at Central Michigan Community Hospital in Mt. Pleasant.
Services were Friday, April 26, at Lux Funeral Home in Mt. Pleasant with Father Joseph Favara of Sacred Heart Church officiating. Burial was at Maple Grove Cemetery in Harrison.
Memorials may be made to the Commission on Aging or charity of the donor's choice.
He was born May 23, 1906, in Grand Marais, the son of Levi and Ada (Goupele) Meilleur. He married Dorothy Wilson in 1928 in Detroit.
Mr. Meilleur also lived in Clare County and Detroit.
He was a bus driver for the Department of Street Railways in Detroit and retired in 1950. He also was employed at Burrough's Corp. and retired in 1968.
He was a member of Mt. Pleasant Moose Lodge No. 195.
He is survived by a daughter, Lois and her husband Victor VanKainen of Mt. Pleasant; two brothers, Charles of Kalkaska and William of Cooley Lake; two granddaughters, Shirley VanKainen of Springfield, Mass., and Karyn VanKainen of Shepherd; and a great-granddaughter, Kirstie VanKainen.
He was preceded in death by a brother and two sisters.
4 1910 US Census (Burt Township, Alger County, Michigan). Surety: 4. Lists Oliva (age 35), wife Ada (age 32), daughter Florence (age 7), son Raymond (age 5), son Paul (as Emmanuel, age 3), son Charles (<1), and daughter Agnes (as Mary A., age <1), living in Alger County. Oliva is listed as a "sawyer" for a "sawmill." This is the only census record known in which their daughter, Florence, appears. She died just nine years later as a novetiate at a convent in Chicago, Illinois. This is also the only official record found that lists their son, Paul, by his given name, Emmanuel. By the 1920 census, he is called Paul, and legally changed his name as an adult.
5 Certified Record of Marriage (State of Michigan, County of Wayne). Surety: 4. This certificate is from Paul and Dorothy's second marriage to each other.
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Cause of his death was Heart Attack.