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 Harold William Guiden
December 16, 2004
Harold William Guiden, 78, of 1241 Oblong Road died yesterday at the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington.
He owned and operated H.W. Guiden Plumbing Co. until his retirement in 1989.
Born in Williamstown on Aug. 10, 1926, son of Arthur and Frances James Guiden, he attended schools in Williamstown and was a 1944 graduate of the former Williamstown High School.
A Navy veteran of World War II, he served on the USS Topeka from 1944 to 1946 as a fireman first class.
After his military career, Mr. Guiden returned to Williamstown. He worked at GE in Pittsfield and, later, at the former Cornish Wire Co. in Williamstown.
For many years, he was the caretaker and a farmhand on Cricket Creek Farm on Oblong Road in South Williamstown. He then was employed by J.B. Wood Co., also in Williamstown.
He was a member of Second Congregational Church, Richard Ruether Post 152 American Legion and the Williamstown Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He and his wife, the former Marguerite Field, celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary Nov. 17. They were married in Pittsfield.
Besides his wife, he leaves two daughters, Jean Frances Richer and Bonnie Mae Clark, both of Williamstown; two sons, John Allen Guiden and James Arthur Guiden, both of Williamstown; a sister, Ethel Gildea of Albany, N.Y.; six grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- Services to celebrate the life of Harold William Guiden will be conducted Monday at 11 at Second Congregational Church in Williamstown by the Rev. Penny Rich, pastor. Burial with full military honors will follow in the family plot in Southlawn Cemetery, Williamstown.
Calling hours will be Sunday from 4 to 7 at FLYNN & DAGNOLI-MONTAGNA HOME for FUNERALS, West Chapels, 521 West Main St., North Adams. Memorial donations are suggested for Hospice of Bennington County or to the Vermont Veterans Home, in care of the C Wing, through the funeral home.
Survivors include a son-in-law, Don Clark; two daughters-in-law, Kristen Anderson and Deborah Guiden; six grandchildren, Scott Richer and his wife, Kate, Kelley Gagnier and her husband, Grant, Bradford Clark, Maggie Clark, Jesse Guiden and James Guiden; four great-grandchildren, Trent and Mason Gagnier, and Sophia and William Richer, and the loving and caring staff on the C wing at the Vermont Veterans Home in Bennington, Vt., who were members of his family for the past few years.
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