Norman G. Sanborn Sr

Norman G. Sanborn Sr., age 95, died at the NH Veterans Home in Tilton on October 27, 2023.  He was born on May 24, 1928, to Guy R. Sanborn and F. Mabel (Morrill) Sanborn, in Rochester, NH-the city he loved, and where he lived his entire life until moving into the NH Veterans Home in 2020. Norm lived and worked on his family's farm in his early years, before spending much of his teen years living and working with his one-armed grandmother on her Rochester farm as well. In 1945, at the age of 16, Norm quit school to join the Merchant Marines, where he served on ships that sailed into mine- and wreckage-filled waters at the tail end of WWII and embarked on dangerous cleanup missions after the war ended. He also served in the Navy Reserves until 1955 and prided himself on the hands-on education his time in service to this country provided, which would serve him throughout his life-including practical lessons in things like basic electricity and wiring, which he would share with his children, and later...