Paul F. Freeman
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Paul F. Freeman a former Nashua resident and 1954 graduate of Nashua High School passed away June 4, 2021 in Georgia. He was a resident of Newnan Georgia. He was a retired 37 year employee of Delta Airlines and had been living in the Atlanta area since 1972.
Paul was born March 3, 1936 in Boston Massachusetts and is survived by his wife, Geneva Freeman, a daughter, Susan Kimberly Freeman and a son, Stephen Paul Freeman.
Paul was raised in Nashua New Hampshire. His parents were Pearl Marshall Freeman and Harold E. Freeman. He became part of a family with three grown sisters. Consequently, Paul grew up with many of his nieces and nephews.
Paul was an industrious lad and had many jobs as a teenager from delivering papers to being a soda jerk.
Paul joined the navy after high school. He was trained as an aviation ordnanceman, and was responsible for the maintenance of guns, bombs, torpedoes, rockets, and missiles. All ordnancemen must be eligible for a security clearance.
After his navy career Paul attended airline school in Boston, Massachusetts in 1958, and married the same year. He began his airline career in Jacksonville, Florida with Northeast Air Lines.
He subsequently worked the small, seasonal one- man stations of Berlin and Laconia in Northern New Hampshire. Here it was necessary to be a weather observer and he earned a certificate of authority from the U.S. Weather Bureau to broadcast aviation weather reports to all airline offices.
Later he became manager of the Island station in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Then, in 1972 Delta Air Lines merged with Northeast Airlines and the family became Georgia residents.
Paul retired from Delta Airlines in 1996 with 37 years of service. He enjoyed playing golf and serving as a marshal at a Jonesboro area golf course. He was an avid reader and spent a lot of time searching for the latest David Baldacci novel. He also read and collected all of the Zane Grey westerns. Paul enjoyed his family, his career at Delta Air Lines, and talking about his exploits during his navy days, such as flying in navy jets towing targets as well as the many places he was stationed at, or visited.
Paul is preceded in death by his parents, his sisters Ethel P. Tipping, Elsa Krueger Sandifer, and Irene Doughty Benner. He is survived by a number of nephews and nieces.
There is an online guestbook available at the Neptune Society website, or friends and relatives may use the link below to visit and share their memories of Paul.
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