Barre City - Romeo Paul Bilodeau, 82, has joined his wife Gloria in the home of Our Lord on January 25, 2020. He went peacefully with his loving family at his side after a long bout with brain cancer.
Romeo was born in Barre, Vermont on August 8, 1937. He was the son of the late Leo J. Bilodeau and Antoinette (Constant) Bilodeau Dufresne and step-father, Conrad Dufresne. Romeo grew up in Barre with his brothers, Maurice, Henry, Leopold and Bernard and his sister Jeannine. With the strictest Mother and Father, they were all always up at the crack of dawn each day, no matter what, doing their farm chores, attending school and going to church every Sunday. In their spare time, which was hard to come by, the brothers managed to fit in fighting with each other, dances at school, fighting over girls, swearing, competing with each other on who was the strongest, who's the most handsome and learning how to sing and yodel.
Romeo graduated from St. Monica's graded school and went on to graduate from...