Biographie Pombrio Oral-David

Aurele (Oral) David was born on April 20, 1904 in Barre, Vermont. He married on the second of September 1933 at St. Peter's Church in Plattsburgh, New York to Albaine Blanche Naomi Elizabeth Laravie the youngest child of the late Napoleon E. Laravie (founder of the first paid fire department in the city of Plattsburgh) and Philomene Fountaine. It was a very simple ceremony with only a few family members present. They were married at St. Peter's Church Plattsburgh, New York in the sacristy chapel with Marjorie Laravie and Wilmer Pombrio as their witnesses. The Rev. G. Ouellette, OMI., officiated at the ceremony.

Blanche was born in the spring of 1907 in Plattsburgh, New York. The first Laravie (Larrivee) to come to Plattsburgh was Calixte Laravie (Larrivee) who was married to Marguerite Smith. The granddaughter of John Smith and Anastasia Hebert, an accepted Royal descent that have common ancestors with Henry I of England, William the Conqueror, Alfred the Great and Charlemagne etc.. She was a graduate of the Plattsburgh Normal School now the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. A career girl she was twenty-six years old when they married, Oral was twenty-nine. Blanche gave up her career to become a full time wife and mother.

They moved into their first home on the Quarry Road in Plattsburgh. Blanche purchased the home from Francis Archambault and his wife Rose for $2,032.99. It was a one-quarter acre lot. Within a few years they would sell the house to her brother Arthur and move to 3 Lynde Street in Plattsburgh.

Oral soon settled down to earning a living for his family. He found employment at the U. S. Post Office where he remained until his retirement. It was estimated that he had walked the circumference of the earth while doing his deliveries over the years. An avid fisherman it was not unusual to hear that he and Blanche had gone fishing for the day with the children. He even belonged to the local Rod and Gun Club. 

Both sons received the sacraments at St. Peter's Church and attended Mount Assumption Institute (now Seton Catholic).

Oral died December 17, 1981 in Plattsburgh, New York and Blanche died February 20, 1988 in Plattsburgh.