Daniel C. Lefebvre, Sr.

CLARKSVILLE, NH -- Mr. Daniel C. Lefebvre, Sr., 89, of Clarksville, NH, and formerly of Virginia, passed away on Friday, October 29, 2010, at the Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital in Colebrook, NH. He was born in Ferret, France, on April 5, 1921, a son to the late Louis and Charlotte Lefebvre. Daniel was educated in Cologne, Germany. He left Germany at the start of World War II and returned to France during its occupation. Daniel left France to escape arrest by the Nazis and he walked across the Alps to get to Spain where he was eventually arrested and put in a Spanish prison camp. He obtained a Canadian flyer’s identity and was released to the custody of the Canadian Red Cross. He then came to the United States and began to train with the U.S. Army Air Corps as a flight navigator. Remaining in the U.S. after the war, Mssr. Lefebvre was a nuclear engineer, and he created the French Engineering Bureau and was affiliated with that for forty years; and he was a Senator in the French Congress to the United States. Daniel was honored by his mother country with the noble title of Chevalier de L’Empire as a member of the French Legion of Honor. He became a U.S. citizen in 1991, and he retired to his second home in New Hampshire in 1992. Mr. Lefebvre was also a 33rd degree Freemason, and a member of Potomac Lodge #5 in Virginia, and he was a Shriner. He is survived by a daughter, Jacqueline Lamb and husband Douglas, of Falls Church, Va.; a son, Daniel C. Lefebvre, Jr., of Falls Church; three grandsons, Mitchell and Marshall Lamb and Charlie Lefebvre; and a special nephew, Jean Christophe “J.C.” Carey. Mr. Lefebvre is preceded in death by a sister, Colette Carey. A memorial Mass will be said on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, at 11:00 a.m. at St. Brendan’s Catholic Church in Colebrook, NH, with The Rev. Craig Cheney as celebrant. A memorial service will be held in Washington, D.C., at a later date, and details will be forthcoming. Expressions of sympathy in Mssr. Lefevbre’s memory may be made to the Tri-County CAP Food Pantry, Parsons Street, Colebrook, NH 03576. Condolences may be offered to the family on-line by going to www.jenkinsnewman.com. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Jenkins & Newman Funeral Home, Colebrook, NH.

Daniel C. Lefebvre, Sr.

April 5, 1921 - October 29, 2010