Roy Lucier died on March 2, 2023.

He was born in Bellows Falls, VT on February 14, 1920. He is the son of Arthur Lucier and Mary (Lemire) Lucier.

Roy is survived by his sister, Pauline Rousseau, and her children: John; Anne and her husband, Robert, and three children: Allison, Catherine, and Donald (Warwick, RI); Michael and his wife, Mary, and two children: Elizabeth and Meg (St. Louis, Missouri); Alan and his wife, Karen, and two children: Nicole and Natasha (Bend, Oregon). He was predeceased by his wife,  Marie Vecchione Lucier, his brother-in-law, Gerard Rousseau, and his two nephews, Edward and Thomas Rousseau.

In 1929 the Lucier family moved from Charlestown, NH, to a farm in Claremont. Arthur continued to work at Jones & Lamson Machine Tool Company in Springfield, VT. After moving Roy continued in the public schools in Claremont. He graduated from Stevens High School in 1939. After graduation Roy found work at the shop with his father in Springfield.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor the Jones & Lamson Company became a defense plant, and he continued working there until he was drafted.

After entering the army Roy was sent to Camp Grant, Illinois, for 16 weeks of army basic medical training. Later he was sent on to Atlanta, Georgia, and continued studies at Lawson General Hospital where, after 12 weeks, he graduated as a Medical Technician. After that Roy was sent to the Pacific and assigned to the 2 ^nd Battalion 145 Infantry. Here he was occasionally sent out to temporarily replace line medics. While on one such assignment Roy was wounded and hospitalized for a short time. At the end of the war, he was honorably discharged on December 23, 1945.

In 1946 Roy started his college education under the G.I. bill for veterans. He entered St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH. After two years Roy transferred to St. Louis University. Later he graduated from Niagara University in Niagara, NY with a B.A. degree.

The western nations won the war against Hitler and Stalin but the West was losing the peace. People with a Communist philosophy were even infiltrating western nations everywhere. The Cold War found Eastern Europe still enslaved under godless Communism even to the center of Berlin.

Madeline Murray with her son, William, had convinced the United States Supreme Court to remove prayer from public schools. By removing prayer in public schools, one removes the name of God in prayer. Years later when William had changed, William wrote that his mother was a Communist and that she did not want to see a church spire in sight as she walked down the street.

In 1960 even though Roy did not have money or a law degree he needed to find work with a little more than board and room so that he could have time to do research. Therefore, Roy left for Boston, Massachusetts. Roy found temporary work in a restaurant. Roy approached a friend of the lay apostolate about finding such a job. Finally, word came from Boston College that the school had made arrangements with a realtor to start the college's first off-campus five-story dormitory. Roy was placed in charge of the dormitory with free board and room and a small stipend.

Each floor would be overseen by a college law student. Roy's board would be free, and he would take his meals with the law students at their table at the university. This would allow Roy to do research in the libraries of Boston during the day while the students were in class.

Roy found that the law library at Boston College was an excellent one and that the University itself had superb documentary material on the founding history of this country. Roy started recording his findings in a small booklet, and with the help of volunteers had printed 3,000 copies which were mailed from coast to coast to people who would be interested in prayers in public schools such as State's Attorney Generals, law libraries, legislators, and churches that had full-time secretaries, and the like. To show the quality of the research, a letter from the Dean of Wayne State University states "Thank you for sending me a copy of your study on the subject of prayer in the public schools. I have read it with interest and have placed it in the Law Library so that it will be available to both students and faculty".

In 1964, after four years in Boston, Roy returned to Claremont. On June 29, 1983, Roy married Marie Vecchione. Marie would come up from Florida and stay in Claremont for the summer months. Roy met her often at the Charismatic prayer meetings. She later died on April 4, 1997.

Roy's involvement in the parish life of St. Mary took on many aspects. On May 6, 1985, Father Andre Gagnon invited four lay people to start St. Mary's Adoration Chapel. They were Gerard Bellavance and his, wife Magella, along with Roy Lucier and his wife, Marie Vecchione Lucier. This was the first adoration chapel in the Diocese of Manchester, NH. The Adoration Chapel began in St. Mary Rectory and then moved to the former St. Mary Convent. This ministry started with many committed adorers from 6 AM to 9 PM. There were eighteen coordinators whose responsibility it was to keep in touch with the people who covered the eighteen hours that the chapel was open.

Shortly after the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s the lay readers program started with four lectors. Roy was a member of this group and continued on for many years to come.

Roy was also a weekly/daily altar server for many years. Roy was also a leader in the Charismatic Renewal.

In 1986 Roy found work as a carpenter and bought a building at 145 Main Street in Claremont which had been used for storing mattresses for Bourdon Mattress Company. Roy started out by making apartments in the building. Two men from the State approached Roy because it seemed that the local police were concerned about putting men, who were under the influence of alcohol, in a cell without medical supervision and that maybe he could take care of that need. The agency "Headrest" in Lebanon, NH gave $3,000 to help partially complete the center. Money was made available to Roy to take courses in the treatment of alcoholism. In time this became known as the Jericho Inn. Roy's background experience as a Medical Technician during World War II; his work for New Hampshire Catholic Charities from 1954 to 1956; and his course work in social services from Boston College's Graduate School of Social Studies prepared him for this new job. Two other people joined him as volunteers and together with Roy took training in Vermont and were licensed as EMTs. The Jericho Inn Center became a shelter and rehabilitation center for homeless people and all types of social problems. The shelter was a private non-profit non-governmental center. Its staff was unpaid. Its financial support came from apartment rents, donations, and Roy's disability pension. It accepted people off the streets as well as referrals from churches and local agencies.

Calling hours will be on Thursday, March 9, from 9:30-10:30am at Stringer Funeral Home, 146 Broad Street, Claremont, NH. A mass of Catholic burial will follow at 11:00am at St. Mary Parish, Central Street, Claremont, NH.  In lieu of flowers donations can be made to St. Mary Parish or the Claremont Soup Kitchen.