Parade of well-wishers help venerable community activist, arts advocate Meri Goyette celebrate a milestone
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- Telegraph photo by DEAN SHALHOUP Along with her daughter Robin Whitman and Whitman’s husband Bill, Meri Goyette, whose 95th birthday was celebrated Sunday with a parade of well-wishers who drove past her Nashua home, greets occupants of a vehicle festooned with a bouquet of balloons. (Telegraph photo by DEAN SHALHOUP)
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- Telegraph photo by DEAN SHALHOUP Meri Goyette blows a kiss to some of the participants in Sunday’s happy birthday parade, which celebrated her 95th birthday. With her is one of her daughters, Robin Whitman. (Telegraph photo by DEAN SHALHOUP)
NASHUA – Sunday afternoon’s showers and occasional downpours failed to dampen the celebration of a milestone birthday for one of Nashua’s best known – and most esteemed – advocate and supporter of the local arts community.
Meri Goyette, sitting under an overhang in front of her Nashua home to ward off the elements, waved and blew kisses to the estimated 100 occupants of around three dozen vehicles that paraded in, around and out of the circular driveway.
The occasion was the celebration of Goyette’s 95th birthday, a milestone she greeted with the wide, trademark smile for which she is known.
The Sunday Telegraph, meanwhile, will pay tribute to Goyette in its April 4 edition, which will feature some of the artwork that Goyette – ever persistent and seemingly tireless – has most recently created.
Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256 or dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.
