Roger W Lachance

Roger W. Lachance, 76, passed away on Nov. 20th at Maine Medical Center after a brief illness. Roger was born in Rochester, NH on Feb. 14th, 1944, the son of Armand and Rose (Levesque) Lachance, Roger graduated from Holy Rosary High School class of 1962. He was also a graduate of the General Electric Apprentice Program and received a BS in Electrical Engineering from UNH in 1968. He later went on to receive his MBA from Northeastern. He went on to work for GE for 40 years at the Somersworth plant holding a variety of managerial positions. He had the opportunity to travel extensively during his career there. Upon his retirement, he opened and started his own successful business, ScrapSafe, of which he was very proud and the company is still going strong. When Roger was in high school, he was one of the original members of the Graniteer's Drum and Bugle Corps. While at UNH, his senior engineering project was to build an underwater habitat called Edalhab. The team built the lab at UNH, moved it to...