Loved woodworking and travel
Published in the March 8, 2018 edition
PLAISTOW, N.H. — Arthur C. Bailey, 90, of Plaistow, N.H. and North Reading, died on Saturday, March 3, 2018. He was born in Everett on May 14, 1927, the son of the late Charles Lee and Sarah (Ferguson) Bailey.
Arthur was a graduate of Everett High School, Class of 1945 and the G.E. Apprentice Course in 1951. He retired in 1987 after 40 years of service at G.E. in Lynn. Arthur loved woodworking and traveling.
Since 1991, he was the husband of Shirley Osgood-Bailey of Plaistow, N.H. He was the father of James Bailey and his wife Margaret of Tewksbury, grandfather of Julie Glover and her husband Michael of Derry, N.H.; Jamie Morris and her husband Leonard of French Royal, Virginia, Chad Clabo and his wife Heather of Clovis, Canada and Charles Bailey of Tewksbury; great-grandfather of Aaron and Cameron Glover, Kyle, George and John Bailey, Piper and Hayden Clabo; stepfather of Stephen Robinson and his wife Daune of Danbury, N.H.; Cheryl Champ and her husband Mark of Fremont, Calif., Marcia Drake and her husband James of Menomonee Falls, Wis., and Ralph Osgood and his companion Joyce of Haverhill.
He was predeceased by his daughter Barbara Clabo in 1997, his wife Regina (Shea) Bailey in 1990 and his cousin George Herbert in 2015.
His funeral will be held at the Croswell Funeral Home, 19 Bow Street, North Reading on Friday, March 9 at 10 a.m. There will be no calling hours. Interment will be in Riverside Cemetery in North Reading. Memorial donations may be made in his memory to the charity of one’s choice. www.croswellfuneralhome.com.
