Wallace L. "Pete" Larrabee Jr

P. Dean Homer Funeral Home A. Kay Welles Homer, Supervisor 1 Grovedale Lane RR02 Box 5-A Wyalusing, Pennsylvania 18853 Tel 570 746-1444 Fax 570 928-8116 Email pdh@epix.net January 2, 2006 OBITUARY WALLACE L. LARRABEE, JR. Wallace L. “Pete” Larrabee, 80, passed away on December 6, 2005 at home in Ashville, NC. Memorial Services will be held on Saturday, January 14, 2006 at 2:30 p.m. at the P. Dean Homer Funeral Home, 1 Grovedale Lane, Wyalusing, PA. He was born on February 14, 1925 in Trenton, NJ to Wallace L. Larrabee, Sr. and C. Alice Larrabee. Pete grew up in Trenton, NJ where his father taught High School, but spent summers with his whole family on Water Street in Camptown. He also visited his grandmother, Lydia Moon Larrabee, on Covey Hill in New Era, helped his Uncle Sydney farm there in the summer of ‘42, and for 30 years owned a farm on Brewer Hill Road in Wyalusing Township. Pete joined the army in 1943 right after high school and served in the 135th Ordnance Division in Europe through the end of WWII. After the war he attended Rutgers University on the GI Bill, receiving his BS in Dairy Husbandry in 1950. He married Lillian E. Blease on March 27, 1950, worked briefly at GLF, and returned to Rutgers to earn his MS in Agronomy in 1956. He then went on to work for 33 years at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, Inc., in the Animal Health Division in Rahway, NJ. When he retired in 1986, he and Lillian lived at the farm in Wyalusing, then at 309 York Avenue in Towanda, and later in Macedonia. He was active in the Towanda Kiwanis, Elks Club, Towanda Country Club and Towanda Gun Club. In 1998 they moved to Asheville, NC where he remained active in Kiwanis and with the VFW. Pete's lifelong pleasures were cars, woodworking, the farm, and a good laugh. He is survived by his wife Lillian of 55 years, daughter Lydia and her husband Bob (of Elgin Illinois), son Richard and his wife Louise (of Houston Texas), and three grandchildren, Diane, Charles, and Rob. He is also survived by his sister Grace Bell of Towanda, and many nephews and nieces. He was preceded in death by his parents, brothers Richard and Robert, and sister Regina. His ashes will be interred at the Larrabee family plot in the Camptown Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to Towanda-Wysox Kiwanis Club Benefits for Children Fund, Box 27, Towanda, PA 18848. To send condolences or sign the e-guestbook, please go to homerfuneralhome.com To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Wallace L. "Pete" Larrabee Jr, please visit our flower store.