Robert V. Ganley

Robert Verrill Ganley

Robert Verrill Ganley was a good and honorable man. He left a glow of kindness where ever he went. He worked for peace and justice; The Kingdom of God.

He was an Eagle Scout, a Navy flyer in the Pacific in WWII, a Forester and a professor of Forestry at U Mass Amherst, an engineer at Western Electric Co., a ski instructor, an athlete, a life long member of the YMCA, a hockey coach, one of the first group of five Eucharistic Ministers at St. Michael Church.

He was a proud father and a great husband.

The world was a better place with him in it.

Bob leaves Lucretia, Bob Jr., Catherine, Caroline, John, Edward, Leo, Rose, Julia, Bethany, Amber, Ashley, Kaitlyn, Isabelle, Madison, Molly, Leo Jr., Abigail, Leslie, Lynne, Lisa and Dianne Ganley. Mika Hess, Dr.Tim Russell, Rebecca Russell, baby Mathew Grisett. Brothers-in-law Daniel Fennell and Arnold Hess.

A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at St. Michael Church, corner of Front and Lincoln Streets, Exeter, Monday, July 17, 2017 at 10 AM. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited and may vist with the family, Sunday from 2-4 PM at the Stockbridge Funeral Home, 141 Epping Road, Exeter. Burial will follow in the Exeter Cemetery. If desired, donations may be made to the Society for Protection of NH Forest or the YMCA in Portsmouth, NH.

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