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Fred L. Cournoyer 1879 ~ 1954 |
| The Cournoyer Funeral Home and Cremation Center was founded in 1915 by Fred L. Cournoyer, and has been serving families from the same location since 1917. Mr. Cournoyer was a former selectman of Jaffrey; he was also owner-operator of the F.L. Cournoyer grocery store on Main Street in Jaffrey. Mr. Cournoyer was a civic-minded individual and, upon the encouragement of family and friends, decided to enter the funeral profession. After graduating from the Massachusetts College of Embalming, he established the business and pioneered a legacy of excellent service under its original name, F.L. Cournoyer & Sons. |
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Randyl P. Cournoyer 1915 ~ 2001 |
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Fred’s son, Randyl P. Cournoyer, graduated from Boston College in 1936 after receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Medical Science. Soon after, he joined his father in the operation of the family business. Randyl then passed the State of New Hampshire’s Funeral Director and Embalmer exams and became a licensed funeral director in 1938. After his father's death in 1954, Randyl closed the grocery store in 1958 and continued to operate the funeral home as well as an insurance agency, which he had purchased from Louis Cournoyer in 1939. Randyl was very active in the Jaffrey community, having served for many years as the trustee of the trust funds for the Town of Jaffrey, as well as having served on the Jaffrey Gilmore Foundation and with the Jaffrey Grange. In 1997, The Jaffrey Chamber of Commerce selected Randyl as the Director’s Award recipient of 1997. He continued to be actively involved with the business until his death on January 1, 2001. |
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Randyl P. Cournoyer, Jr. |
| Randyl’s son, Randy, joined the family business after his graduation from both St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire and the New England Institute of Anatomy and Science in Boston, Massachusetts. He became a licensed funeral director in 1966. The business continued on more or less unchanged in the family home on River Street until 1980, when the legal owner of the business, Mrs. Kathleen Cournoyer (Randyl, Sr.'s mother) died. Following her death, Randy, also a licensed insurance agent in his father's agency, decided to make the funeral business his full-time occupation. Randy began reconstructing the family home into the current facility, now known as the Cournoyer Funeral Home & Cremation Center. Randy has also been very active in the Jaffrey community. He has been involved with St. Patrick Church, the Knights of Columbus, the Jaffrey- Rindge Lions Club, Jaffrey’s Boy Scout Troop 33, the Jaffrey Gilmore Foundation, the Jaffrey Conservation Commission, Monadnock Compassionate Friends, and the Alice Poole Fund. Randy was chosen as the Jaffrey Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year in 1994. |
| Mark R. Cournoyer |
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Randy's son, Mark, joined the family business and became fully licensed in 1994 after graduating summa cum laude from The New England Institute of Funeral Service Education at Mount Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts. Mark had previously enjoyed an active life in public safety. He had served on the Jaffrey-Rindge VFW Memorial Ambulance Service as an EMT-Intermediate for over 8 years. Mark had also worked in law enforcement for over 10 years on the Jaffrey and Fitzwilliam Police Departments and had been a member of the Jaffrey Juvenile Diversion Committee. He remains a Critical Incident Stress Debriefer for the local Fire, Rescue, EMS and Police agencies and is the only funeral director in New Hampshire currently certified and active in Mass Casualty and Disaster Response. Mark is a member of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) in Region 1. Mark attained the rank of Eagle Scout in 1986 and remained very active with Jaffrey's Boy Scout Troop 33. He had served on the Troop Committee for several years and is still a strong supporter of scouting. He is currently on the Pack Committee of Cub Scout Pack 33 in Jaffrey. Mark is also very involved in NASCAR and is a crew member of Gauthier Racing in Jaffrey. |
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