Thelma Louise Ferland, 82, of Pine Hill Mobile Home Park, died Tuesday morning, October 11, 2005 at her home on Megan Place in Claremont. She was born in Charlestown, NH on March 3, 1923 the daughter of Orson P. and Sadie (Lombard) Nichols.  She was raised in Charlestown and graduated from Charlestown High School.  She married Lawrence W. Ferland on June 9, 1951 and moved to Claremont and lived on East Green Mt. Rd., later on Mulberry St. and at Pine Hill since 1993. Mrs. Ferland retired in 1985 from the Holson Photo Album Company where she worked for three years, previously at W.T. Grants for ten years, Hood Egg Plant in Bellows Falls, VT and during the war at Jones & Lamson Machine Co. in Springfield, VT. She loved her family and enjoyed baking, cake decorating, flowers, knitting and crocheting. The surviving family includes her husband of Claremont; two sons, Thomas A. Ferland and William B. Ferland both of Charlestown; one daughter, Carol A. Noel of Salem, OR; four grandchildren, Eric & Matt Ferland and Nick & Savannah Noel; one brother, Herbert W. Nichols of SCNH, Unity also numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. She was pre-deceased by a daughter, Barbara Sinor who died June 4, 2004 and four sisters, Lillian French, Vera LaClair, Norma Chisholm and Marion Forest. Friends may call at the Stringer Funeral Home, 146 Broad Street in Claremont on Friday evening from 5 to 7 PM. A Memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Saturday morning, Oct. 15th at Eleven O'clock in St Joseph Church with Rev. Father Stanley J. Piwowar, Pastor, officiating.  Interment will follow in St Mary Cemetery. The family suggest that donations may be made in her memory to the American Lung Association of New Hampshire, 9 Cedarwood Drive, Unit 2, Bedford, NH 03110 or to either St Joseph Church, P.O. Box 824,  or St Mary Church, 32 Pearl Street, both of Claremont, NH 03743.