George Allen Hibbard, 73, of Red Water Brook Road died Sunday Morning November 15, 2009 at home with his family. He was born March 31, 1936 in Lisbon, New Hampshire, the son of the late John and Vera (Huntington) Hibbard. He graduated from Lisbon High school and New Hampshire Technical Institute of Manchester, New Hampshire. In 1958 he entered the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, Long Island, New York. Upon graduation in 1961, he married his high school sweetheart, Marion Moore and then went to work for the Boeing Aircraft Company in Seattle, Washington where he worked on the Minute Man Missile Project as a manufacturing engineer. In 1964, he came to work for Joy Manufacturing in Claremont as a design engineer and progressed to head of new product development. During these years, he received 13 U.S. Patents for hydraulic mining machinery. In 1983 he accepted the position as Engineering Manager at the Joy Electric Product Division in LaGrange, North Carolina. It was in 1988 he returned home to Claremont to start an antique car engine rebuild shop which was his life long passion. He was an active member of the North Country Region Model A Restorers Club.
The family includes his wife Marion of 48 years and two sons; Aaron and his Karyn of Belchertown, Massachusetts and Timothy and Jodi Lynne of Lempster, NH as well as five grandchildren, Heather, Hayley, Christopher, Hannah and Hope, also several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his sister Elsie Patterson and an infant grandson Michael Aaron Hibbard.
Family and friends may call the Stringer Funeral Home, 146 Broad Street, Claremont, NH on Saturday, November 21st from 2 to 4pm and 6 to 8pm.
Graveside services will be held privately in the spring in the Grove Hill Cemetery in Lisbon, New Hampshire.
The family suggest donations be made in his memory to the Connecticut Valley Home Care, 958 John Stark Highway, Newport, NH 03773 or the educational fund for the North Country Region MARC C/O Glenn McKinley, PO Box 245, Fairlee, VT 05045.