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- According to Lea (ARCAND) RIZZI, Paul is the biological son of Cora's brother Paul Homer PILOTTE and his wife Irene M. WOLFE.
From Lea (ARCAND) RIZZI on 10 Jun 2005: Hello Family and Friends: I am sure you remember the accident that took my cousin Paul Arbour's son Justin and his wife. Baby Autumn is doing very well. Shortly after, Paul's wife had to go to the hospital for a medical problem that she has hadfor many years. She is now in a nursing home and possibly will not make it home. Now Paul, who had had three strokes, had his fourth about a little over a week ago. He is totally paralyzed on one whole side. Thedoctors said he had no left brain action and last night he recommended Paul be taken off his feeder since he could not swallow or think. It will be done sometime today with his family around him. Please pray for this sweet person and gentle man whotook care of everyone except himself.Thank you so much for your prayers.
From Lea (ARCAND) RIZZI on 13 Jun 2005: Paul had made a written requestthat if he was on tubes after a few days, he wanted the tubes removed.They now have him on morphine and the doctors feel without his blood pressure medication he would have a massive heart attack and it wouldn'tbe long after that. His sister handled the request to the doctor and Paul was able to answer to the fact that was what he wanted. They brought his wife to him from the hospital to say goodbye and when his daughter came to see him, he was trying to cry; he really loved her. All his family left yesterday because many had to go home. They were all affected by this happening to him, but they all expected it because it was hisfourth stroke and was very serious this time.
From Lea (ARCAND) RIZZI on 07 Jul 2005: Paul will be in a nursing home for the rest of his life and Mickey is settled in at home, according toPaul's sister Holly Turner who was settling Mickey at home.
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www.projo.com (RI) -- Wednesday 26 Dec 2007 -- by Alisha A. Pina
WHERE LOVE BLOOMS
This couple proved love is ageless and the determined will make it happen. The bride couldn't wear heels. Fluffy, comfortable slippers decorated with lace and pearl-like beading will do. In reciting his vows, the groom was barely understood.But hisgrin, and the sparkle in his eyes, screamed, "I do." Neither could stand and hold hands during the ceremony. Serena Cole and Paul Arbour, instead, sat and faced each other. They touched by clutching the chaplain's knee-length stole. And neither hadthe finances for last Wednesday's wedding. The staff at Eastgate Nursing& Rehabilitation Center, where the two met just three months ago, tookcare of that. A volunteer, Ines Heirsch, made the dress and veil by hand and bakedthe three-tier cake.Others catered, decorated, got the legal paperwork and donated the rings. "Paul came to us in August, and in October they announce to us that they were getting married and were in love," said Renee Ferruccio, the Waterman Avenue center's charge nurseand unit manager for the first floor. "At first, we thought it was cute and then we knew they were serious, so we went right to work." It was a first for the center, which houses 63 residents on its two floors. Cole, 65, and Arbour, 62, had roomsonopposite wings on the same floor. Theymet at one of the many activities held there. "We met in exercise class," Cole said, while confiding she caught him sneaking a peak. Next came the love letters, whichArbour had the nurses deliver. Cole walkedher responses back to his room once she found out where it was. When asked what she likes most about Arbour, she looked at him, his eyes still dancing with delight, and said, "His looks and his smile." Ferruccio said,"They began holding hands atallthe activities. They set the wedding date for December 19." It was Arbour's third marriage. His first two wives died, Cole explained. And it was Cole's first. "My mother wouldn't let me getmarried, but now that she passed away, I can get marriedwhenever I want," the former Maine resident said. "She didn't like the guys I picked." When asked if her mother would approve of Arbour, Cole said, "She better, because I married him."Arbour is a former tow truck driver who grew up in East Providence.The wedding took place in a common area and the aisle was the center's corridors. The Eastgate chaplain, Susan Eenigenberg, who usually helps the residents through grief, illnesses, loneliness and the death of friends and relatives, officiated. "Ohhh, I'm gonna cry," a staff member said as the traditional music began to play. Another said, "We did it. Look, look, the bride is coming!" The best man was Eastgateresident Melvin Goldenberg; the matron of honor, Cole's roommate, was JoannaFortes."Welcome," Eenigenberg said. "A wedding is such a wonderful occasion, full of hopes, dreams and excitement. Loveis powerful and yet it is also simple. It is the highest achievement."She skipped several lines of their vows, stating theyhave already proved they are committed to each other "in sickness and in health." The chaplain continued, "Love never fails. What you have given me is [the ideato]never give up. That is love." When it was time tosay, "I do," Arbour didn't wait until Eenigenberg finished. "I will with the help of God," the groom said. He was dressed in a maroon button-down, black slacks,and a tie. His boutonnièrewas pinnedto his red-and white-striped suspenders. Said Cole, "Paul, I wish to be your wife. Ipromise to lgrant, Ae,e Le ssaole?ees18 Rivitab» «tab»ove and support you from this day forward as long as we both shall live." She got up and walked to himfor their first official kiss. Those in the audience -- including one of Arbour's daughters, a lot of staff, disabled residents and others -- thenthrew fake rose petals at them. Cole gladly showed off her diamond ring aspeople congratulated her. Yet she wouldn't let go ofher man'shand. They will move into a new room together in the coming days.
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1944 - 2013 (68 ans)