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"Life doesn't always work out in your favor."

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Originating from Milford, the Holloways have been a family name in Huddeen since the late 1940s when the former Holloway Textile Co. was consolidated into a larger company upon sale of the family business. James Holloway, eldest son of the late Francis Holloway and freshly home from overseas fighting in war-torn Europe, had used this as an opportunity to purchase a house in Huddeen, having found the town quaint and welcoming to raise a family in.

Since then, the Holloways have been an active member of Huddeen's community. Wherever you look, there has been a Holloway attached to almost every aspect of Huddeen, from the mayor's office to the fire department to even the local school board. Jill Holloway (née Cooke) was one such Holloway, working as the local weather correspondent until her passing of ovarian cancer just prior to the apocalypse.
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Blake is a man that looks more like someone's grandfather than someone in his middle forties. Time and stress has weathered him considerably to where one might mistake him for being older than he actually is.

Driving semis for a living, Blake was often away from home hauling cargo deep into Canada or elsewhere. Sometimes it was apples to Quebec, other times it was Christmas trees to the Midwest. It was long, tiresome work, and it often kept Blake from being home with his high school sweetheart, Jill, and their two daughters. But regardless of how stressful the hours were, it kept his family comfortable, and that was all he wanted.

Then came the diagnosis. His beloved wife had ovarian cancer—and it took her, fast. She had passed while he was out on the road, far away from home. Since then, Blake has been beating himself up for not being there during her final moments; his grief still affecting him to this day even into the apocalypse.▅
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________At five years old, Morgan was an unexpected yet welcomed member of the Holloway household. She doesn't quite understand why her mother is gone, and is known to ask innocent questions about her whereabouts. Additionally, Morgan also remains ignorant of the apocalypse, deliberately kept in the dark in hopes of somehow preserving her childish innocence. Her older sister, Holly, wants to tell Morgan about both, but she ultimately doesn't have the heart to do so. It'd crush her, and she likely would never be the same.▅
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 T H E   G R A V E S   F A M I L Y
T H E   G R A V E S   F A M I L Y



[ ❇ ]  B R I E F  F A M I L Y  H I S T O R Y

When Huddeen was small, Rutherford Graves – a veteran of the American Civil War – deciding to start a new page of his life far away from what he had become accustomed to. Through time he became the face of law and order in the New Hampshire township. It is through those roots that the Graves household traces back their residence in Huddeen. Though it may not be for very long.

“There has been a Graves in Huddeen since Ulysses S. Grant became President.”

That’s changed over time, but usually there’s been a Graves wearing a sheriff’s badge in some way or another. The last Graves to wear a badge, Paul D. Graves, died ten years ago after a terrible battle with lung cancer. He was a gruff, but charming and friendly character. But life carries on.
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________At 46, Lorraine never expected she’d be where she is now.

Ten years ago, her husband, Paul, lost his fight against lung cancer. She’s not particularly sure the family ever managed to do without him. After his funeral, neighbors and friends saw how she became more aloof and standoffish. Part of it was the stress of providing for the family by herself, but also just part of how she reacted to Paul’s sudden death.

Life was hard. Working at the high school during the day and working as a gas station attendant at night, Lorrie found time was a valuable resource she just didn’t have–but it was enough to keep the family afloat even if it kept her both physically and mentally exhausted at all times. She’s still not sure she did the best she could over the years, but with Davey helping out and Lee college-bound everything seemed to make sense again. It was a feeling she now is beginning to realize was very short-lived.

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“I dreamed of getting out of Huddeen once, never thought it’d be like this.”
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________About to hit his 25th birthday, Davey is beginning to prematurely think about his life.

With many of his friends now either out-of-state living life or starting families of their own in New Hampshire he is beginning to feel a certain way about his own life and the circumstances. When his father passed he was fifteen, in the prime of his high school experience. By the time he graduated, he had to find work to support the family as new bills seemed to swallow his mother whole with each passing year. But hey, at least he had his head on straight.

Confident, irreverent, but hard-working, Davey has earned a reputation as a solid handyman. The time he’s spent with his dad’s old bike has made him have a good sense for auto repair, though admittedly he still has a long way to go. Still, he’s twenty-four and a sense of longing and escape still weighs on him, though a sense of ironic humor has possessed him after the last two weeks.

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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________At 18, Hailee (or Lee to pretty much everyone) is finally happy that high school is over.

She misses her dad alot. A few days before she turned eight she sat in silence as he flatlined at a hospital in Manchester. It’s a memory she thinks about often and it's probably why she was such a snarky, angsty little kid in the years that followed. Before everything changed she was preparing to attend college at UCLA. She feels particularly fortunate that she’s in New Hampshire rather than California, though part of her is pretty convinced that the universe fucking hates her.

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B A I L E Y
B A I L E Y




"We may not be perfect, but we work through our faults and accept one another."

[ ❇ ]  B R I E F  F A M I L Y  H I S T O R Y
The Bailey family has been a long time staple for the town of Huddeen. Opening the Happy Days Diner in the 1960’s, Cynthia helped her mother and grandmother tend the small restaurant as the town that they loved grew. They would often host celebrations there for the community, as well as hold food drives, and other things that would help to benefit their community. They would even donate meals if a particularly bad storm came through the town, giving at least a little bit of reprieve for any affected by it. 

When her mother grew old, the Happy Days Diner was passed to Cynthia, who in turn passed it to her youngest son, Patrick. It has only been a few months since Patrick has returned to Huddeen with his wife and children. While Patrick himself had been a fervent part of the community in his youth, this is the first time Margaret has been out of the big city, and her apprehension is clear. Will she be able to live up to the Bailey name, and keep the family in the good graces of the community?
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Age: 44 || Occupation: Happy Days Owner / Overall Tech Guy

Patrick was always the quiet one out of all of his brother’s. Even at a young age he loved technology, and was often the one that his mother would call when she needed any kind of help with the computer, phone, or television. It wasn’t a surprise, then, when he told her that he wanted to leave Huddeen and go to school to become an IT professional. 

It was there in the city, working on his bachelor’s, that he met Margaret. They worked for the same company at the time, and her beauty captivated him, forcing him to come out of his shell and take a chance before someone swooped in and took it for him. Asking Margaret out was the best decision he ever made, and he couldn’t be happier. Now he has a family he would do anything in his power to protect.
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Age: 39 || Occupation: Executive Assistant to Beth Greene, owner of Coral Fashion

Having a family was always difficult for Margaret. Being raised by a single mother, she never wanted what she had as a child, watching her mom struggle to keep them afloat. Yet when she herself turned into a single mother, she refused to take the same course. Instead, Margaret flung herself into work, starting out as a simple receptionist for a large fashion company, and working her way up to executive assistant of Beth Greene, owner and operator of Coral Fashion. It was there that she met Patrick.

Margaret could never fathom why Patrick loved her. To her, she was boring, dry, and distant. She would yell over the kids to try to quiet them when they were being rowdy, her first born Tommy getting the brunt of her anger. She was distant, and while she floundered at parenting, Patrick seemed to excel. He completed her, grounded her, and helped her finally start to open up to her surroundings. Even after 14 years of marriage, she’s still learning and becoming a new person day by day.
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"I'm getting out of this family, one way or another."
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Age: 22 || Occupation: Begrudgingly works at Happy Days Diner

To say Tommy was a problem child would be an understatement. Ten years old when his mother married Patrick, he hated the man with every inch of his being. He wanted to be with his father - his real father - the man often letting him do everything and anything that he wanted to. The marriage between Margaret and Jude was toxic, but Tommy didn’t see that. How could he, when his true father was obviously playing favorites. 

The anger stuck with Tommy, festering in him. He often got into fights, took to fighting and smoking at a young age, and was overall just a horrible person to be around. Fighting with his mother was constant, but even through it all, Patrick never raised his voice to the young man. In fact, Patrick never treated him with anything but kindness; it only made Tommy angrier, however. 

Leaving the apartment they shared in the city, Tommy tried his hand at college. It ended poorly, though, with a fight breaking out between himself and other young men. Being kicked out of the university, and with nowhere else to go, Tommy found himself in Huddeen with his family. His mother hoped for a fresh start, but all he wanted was to run and never look back.

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"Never let anyone try to change you. Show your weirdness, and scream it out to the world!"
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Age: 15 || Occupation: Sophomore in High School

Spunky, weird and unrestrained, no one is sure where Emily’s personality came from. She is nothing like either of her parents, often being the life of the party, and the wildest one in the household. She speaks her mind, will defend her friends with her life if necessary, and loves to make new ones to add to that roster.

Once they moved, Emily tried to not let it get her down. They weren’t that far from the city, after all, and once she was able to drive in a year she would go and visit her best friends as much as she could. She was able to make some new friends in Huddeen as well, showing them the city ways, as well as learning as much as she could about her new home. 
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"I prefer silence and the company of books, over being around other people. It's just how I am.."
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Luca is just like his father when he was younger. Quiet, shy, and knowledgeable, he tends to keep to himself, now more than ever. Being pulled away from any friends he had made in the city hasn’t helped, and the poor boy is often going from school straight to his room, where he connects with his old pals online. 

Shyness has kept him from making any new friends, and when his own aren’t around online, he tends to wander the wilderness around their house. 

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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Age: 63 || Occupation: Owner of Happy Days Diner

Being a resident of Huddeen since she was born, Cynthia always did whatever she could to help the community. She pushed her four sons to be the best people they could be, and grew her household name to be a prominent part of their society. With her husband Matthias, they enjoyed a life of happiness, living in God’s Grace. 

Even with all of her stubbornness, though, she couldn’t save her husband. The old man died 5 months before the world began to end, heart failure catching up with him, no matter how many times Cynthia tried to get him to see a doctor. The weight of already losing a son to an accident, mixed with losing her partner of forty-three years, began to bog her down. Calling up her youngest son, Patrick, it was quickly decided that the family would move back to Huddeen in support of her. 

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"We may be a different kind of family than most, and we have gone through some trouble, but we are here for each other no matter what.

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The Hawthorne family has been in the town for five years now but has mostly kept to themselves. Though Lara and her brother Zach tend to be more active than their stepfather Grayson or as he likes to be called, Gray. Before being a family, the siblings and Gray had their ups and downs in life before meeting and Gray taking the troubled pair in. They have been together ever since and are a tight-knit family, Gray seeing a second chance at having a stable family and the siblings having a good parent in their lives. It was Gray's idea to move to a quiet, small town, and he figured that would be a good place for the pair to grow up after all that stress in their lives. An idea that the twins agreed to try out and so far have not regretted it.           
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Grayson had a life growing up with his parents and made him escape by joining the military when he was old enough. Grayson would end up meeting his future wife while with the army and would leave the army in order to marry her and have a family together. They would end up with two kids. However, this would not last, and after problems and fights, Grayson would end up divorced. Though he was still able to see his kids. For years, he lived on his own, just getting by. 

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 T H E   S P A R L I N G   F A M I L Y
T H E   S P A R L I N G   F A M I L Y




"They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder. They say..."

[ ❇ ]  B R I E F  F A M I L Y  H I S T O R Y
The Sparling name is an old one in Huddeen. Faded headstones in the town's graveyard bear testament to that. However, their line has been rather sparse over the past couple of decades as successive generations have left for the greener pastures of Boston, Providence, and New York. Then, a dozen years ago, family matriarch Hattie passed away and the old family house ended up in the hands of her granddaughter, pregnant young grad student and former wild child Alana, along with her growing family. Moving back from Boston to the town where she used to spend summers with her grandma after her parents' divorce, she brought her husband Devon, a stereotypically geeky storyboard artist, and her children Lila and Jason. While the grand old home was everything they could've hoped, vintage 1970s-era decor and some electrical issues aside, their first few years were difficult, as Devon had to switch jobs, Alana had to delay setting up her own practice when their youngest daughter Winnie was born, and Lila suffered an accident that confined her to a wheelchair and necessitated the installation of a ramp and extensive renovations. Things have calmed down since then, and the family has flourished... at least outwardly. 

While Devon's career has taken him to conferences across the country and Lila has gone off to the Juilliard School in New York to study violin, small-town star athlete Jason doesn't see much of a future, Winnie grows ever stranger and more introverted, and Alana continues to fray at the edges as she wears too many hats, commutes for too long every day, and juggles too many responsibilities in her desperate determination to make sure that her family won't go the way that her parents' did. Add to this the recent arrival of Devon's older sister Carina from Boston, fresh off of some serious controversy, as well as Lila back on holiday, and things are... volatile. Oh, then zombies. Zombies have happened too. Is there any way that this fraying family can pull itself together long enough to survive and maybe even be an asset? I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Growing up, Alana was just about the most obnoxious possible version of a ca. 1995-2002 first-gen edgy gamer girl. She never thought she'd be a psychologist. She assumed her job would be something in a creative industry but, here she is, and there's a kind of art to patching minds back up, she supposes. She's certainly had to do more than her share of that over the course of her life. As an ex-urbanite, this mother of three commutes into Manchester for work whenever her job requires it of her. While she was born in nearby Nashua, Alana's parents broke up when she was small and she bounced around. She spent much of her later childhood and early teens in Huddeen with her grandmother before moving to Boston with her dad and becoming a child of the early internet. Luckily, her most absurd exploits were pre-social media and, just after her twenty-second birthday, she was a mother anyhow and her crazy days fast faded. After inheriting her grandmother's house a dozen years ago, she packed her young family up and moved out to Huddeen, with its lower cost of living and safer streets. Now into her early forties, Alana's weathered far more storms than she'd ever imagined and is a lot number to it all than she imagined that she'd be at this point in life. She'll often go on about how she loves this town, and is an active member of all the relevant community organizations. Embarrassed about her wild past and her husband's at-times immature behaviour, she tries as hard as she can to fit in, never quite feeling like she manages it. Secretly, her interest in her marriage is waning but, remembering her childhood, she's determined not to let it fail. You know how they say that shrinks are as much of a mess as their clients? At least she's not abusing prescriptions... yet.▅
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________If Alana eventually grew up, Devon never quite managed the trick. A storyboard artist and gig worker, he pursues jobs in the videogaming industry with particular gusto and has built up a fairly impressive portfolio. A proud nerd and daydreaming creative, he lives for his work and loves his family, very much in the mold of the 'cool dad'. He convinces himself that it's natural, but he works hard at it. Yet, he can also be a bit of an avoidant husband and father: enthusiastically there for the good times but absent for the more challenging ones. While he's certain it's only an unfortunate coincidence, he's beginning to understand how bad it looks and how much trouble it's causing his loved ones. Devon's never quite mastered the fine art of 'adulting', but he's trying. He's always been somewhat awkward but has grown socially and in confidence over the years and has become unused to failure. Sometimes, however, in his more anxious moments, he suffers from impostor syndrome. He constantly worries that his creative spark is leaving him and that he might end up embarrassing or holding back his family members, particularly his daughter Lila. As his career has finally started to take off in recent years, he's been seeing more of her in New York and they've grown somewhat closer. At the start of our story, Devon's trapped in Boston where he was attending a conference. He calls his family on the phone at every opportunity while they still have service. He's trying to get someone in the Boston Quarantine Zone to do something or, barring that, to make his way back, but he doesn't quite know where to begin.▅
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________A surprise child and the reason that Alana and Devon are married, Lila is twenty-one as the story begins, and was visiting home from university in New York when the epidemic struck. A perfectly average, if somewhat rambunctious kid before being paralyzed from the waist down in a tree-climbing accident at the age of twelve, she was forced to reinvent herself and find new purpose. Since then, with her mother's relentless support , the oldest of the Sparling children has become the sort of inspirational story that's a magnet for bursaries, scholarships, speaking engagements, and interest pieces by local new outlets. An extremely talented violinist from an early age, she has already featured in major productions and boasts nearly a hundred thousand subscribers on her YouTube channel. Living the young, sophisticated urbanite's dream, Lila has left her small-town roots behind and flourished in New York: a young virtuoso headed for success. Yet, deep down, vicious insecurities about being a burden - about being incapable and unattractive - tear at her, and the constructed world and its many obstacles act as constant reminders that she cannot just do many of the things she would like. In truth, she is very much like her younger siblings, though they probably don't think of her as such. In her dreams, she's still a spontaneous creature, wandering the neighbourhood with Jason in tow, climbing trees and hiking in the ravine, pulling Winnie in a wagon, and playing games of tag or basketball that stretch into the night. There's a shared history with her family and she loves them, but she hasn't spent all that much time with them in years. She loves her mother, too, who pushed her hard to pick herself back up and to succeed, but there's something else there as well: resentment at stealing her away from her childhood with endless practice, rehearsal, and travel, for molding her into an 'inspiration' instead of a person. With her friends, in their little shared apartment, Lila's fun, irreverent, and vivacious, always ready with a quick quip or pithy observation. Here, at 'home', she increasingly feels like the odd one out in her family of lovable losers. Huddeen is a pleasant place full of fond memories, but indelibly part of her past, not her future.▅

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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Three and a half years younger than Lila, Jason was always playing keep-up with her when they were kids: in school, where teachers went on glowingly about her; for attention, where she seemed to lap up their parents' love with her musical talent and witty remarks; and in the little pencil marks measuring height on the doorframe, where he could never quite catch her. Then, after she had her accident, he won the third of those battles definitively, and lost the others. As his parents' and, especially, his mother's attention reoriented itself toward Lila, and his playmate returned home less able to... play, the boy found other ways of entertaining himself. Where his father was a genuinely creative person, Jason merely aped and dreamed. Instead, his talents lent themselves elsewhere. A natural athlete and good with his hands, he is a mediocre student at school, but well liked by both teachers and other students, co-captaining his high school basketball team to the state's final four in his junior year. Yet, the scholarship offers from major universities haven't exactly been flooding in. He enjoys shop class, console gaming, and skateboarding more than anything else, and is just tall enough to dunk on the basketball hoop in the driveway. In between occasional games of Horse with his dad or his sisters, it takes relentless punishment while the curbs and railings in town see similar treatment from his skateboard. At the end of the day, Jason is more than a little bit edgy, with a mohawk, a couple of tattoos, and a fondness for music that would make his once-rebellious parents blush. This, he eagerly blasts out the window of his 2007 Buick, recently purchased from an estate sale for $1700. There is nothing academic that really interests Jason, but he can play shooters and zombie survival games for hours and, yes, he has a (very humble) sword collection. With little to no direction in life, a secret part of him is... weirdly kind of excited that the apocalypse is nigh. He's already constructing traps and barriers and he practices with his cheap knockoff katana in the backyard. Perhaps the dire nature of the situation just hasn't dawned on him yet, so the question is: when will it?▅
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Jake Gauthier, 43
Helen Gauthier, 43
Jake Gauthier, Jr., 17
Jenn Gauthier, 16
Kyle Gauthier, 14

 G A U T H I E R
G A U T H I E R




"Sacrifice for a friend or neighbor in need so they may succeed is the noblest virtue."

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Jacob Gauthier was born and raised in Concord, NH. His family is still there. After he came home from Iraq in 2003, he got a job on the Springfield Terminal Railway, and became reacquainted with his High School Sweetheart, Helen Mansen. They got married in 2005 and bought the house on Mulberry St. in 2007 just after Jacob Jr. was born.

The children attend public school in Huddeen with all three in Huddeen High School. Jacob's wife Helen is active in the PTO at school and Jacob spends much of his time away from the family's house working for the Railroad. Helen has many friends in the community and is well liked. Jake's connections are stronger in Concord where he grew up and since his job has him on the road quite often, he just hasn't taken time to get to know too many people in town. He is acquainted with his immediate neighbors on Mulberry St.

The children have many friendship connections all over town. Jake Jr. is a Senior and four-year varsity Track and Cross Country member. Jennifer is a Junior and plays tennis in the spring getting mostly As and a few Bs on her report cards. Jake jr. gets As, Bs, and a few Cs on his report card and can't wait to get out of High School. Kyle plays the trumpet in the High School marching band and plays Dungeons and Dragons with his friends. Kyle loves to dream about science fiction which he has a voracious reading appetite for. He is working towards a 4.0 GPA his freshman year of high school.
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When Jake was a boy his father, William often took him and his twin brother John hunting. Uncle Bob would often go on these hunting trips with Jake, his brother John and his father. Uncle Bob served in Vietnam in the USMC in 1969 - 1970. His father never served in the military. Uncle Bob has two daughters and no sons. He never considered bringing his daughters hunting. It was not something you did then.

In more recent times, Jake and his twin brother John often take Jake Jr. and Kyle on hunting trips just like they did when they were children. Like Uncle Bob, John only had daughters and no sons. Again, he never considered bringing his daughters hunting and they never pushed the idea.

Jake Gauthier is very close to his brother and parents. He often calls his mom and dad in Concord as well his brother who is married to Lisa (Kennedy) and live in Concord with their daughters Stella (12) and Penny (10). Any chance he gets, he drives up to Concord to visit family. His sister Leslie lives in Durham, NH with her husband Ed Welcome and their three children, Norman, Grace and Adam. Norman is actually an illegitimate child Leslie had before she married Ed Welcome. Professor Welcome teaches History at the University of New Hampshire. Jake's sister Clarice is married to George Allen who runs his own auto repair shop in Concord. They have five children; Pam (15), Jackson (11), Marylin (9), Nick (7), and Boden (5).

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 G A U T H I E R, Helen || M O T H E R / Well known in the PTO
G A U T H I E R, Helen || M O T H E R / Well known in the PTO
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Helen's family is also from Concord, NH. They are of Irish descent and the young woman fell in love with her high school sweetheart as teenagers. After graduating High School, Jake wanted to break up with Helen so she wouldn't feel tied down at home while he was off playing at being a soldier in the US Army. She realized, he did this to set himself free to get into whatever mischief he wanted while he was traveling the world. She knew in her heart there was no one else for her and decided to wait for her one true love to return home. He did.

Helen chose to support her husband and her children anyway she could. She has a lot of close friends in Huddeen and the women of the PTO work together to help one another out. Helen was an attractive woman in High School and still is. She was not as confident then as she is now. She knows her mind and is not afraid to share it. She does keep physically fit with running and working out in the gym.

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 G A U T H I E R, Jacob Jr. || E L D E S T  S O N / Senior and Varsity Runner
G A U T H I E R, Jacob Jr. || E L D E S T  S O N / Senior and Varsity Runner
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Jake Junior idolizes his father. He knows he is a veteran like Uncle John who served in the Marine Corps, but doesn't ask his dad too many questions. He is aware some veterans don't like to talk about any bad things they may have done in their past. Maybe there is something he is ashamed of? Jake just doesn't ask even though he is extremely curious and has considered joining the military after school.

Jake dates Tessa Hempstead a junior who happens to be friends with his sister, Jennifer. The two have been dating for a year and fawn over one another frequently. Jake's mother Helen often compares Jake Jr and Tessa to herself and his father Jake Senior.

Jake is considering going to a trade school either during or after the military to become an electrician later in life. He does not want to work on the railroad and does not want to go to school. His mother would love for him to go to college, but knows they cannot afford it.

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 G A U T H I E R, J E N N I F E R || D A U G H T E R / HS Junior, Tennis Player & Popular girl in school
 G A U T H I E R, J E N N I F E R || D A U G H T E R / HS Junior, Tennis Player & Popular girl in school
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Jenn enjoys playing tennis and is very intelligent. She would love to be a doctor one day but knows her parents cannot afford to send her to medical school. Her father's cousin, Martha who is the daughter to his Uncle Bob is married to a doctor Tom Maroni and they live in Boston, MA. She has mentioned her intent to both Martha and Tom. Her Uncle Eddie is a professor and UNH and she may consider studying biology, nursing or pre-med at the Durham, NH campus to get a degree.

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 G A U T H I E R, K Y L E || Y O U N G E S T  S O N / Honor Student in High School and band member
 G A U T H I E R, K Y L E || Y O U N G E S T  S O N / Honor Student in High School and band member
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Kyle is a big fan of Star Wars and Star Trek. Most people choose one or the other, but he enjoys both. He often dreams of being a Jedi Knight or flying in space aboard the Starship Enterprise. He spends a lot time writing creatively in his journals and he has several. He has considered publishing a novel, but most of his writing is incomplete as he jumps to different ideas too frequently. Kyle has at least five close friends who play DnD with him frequently. He plays Hockey as a Defenseman, but he is not that good at it. He does not dream of one day playing for the Boston Bruins.

Kyle, like his brother, Jake idolizes his father. He doesn't feel restrained about asking his dad about his time in the Army. He has sat on Uncle Bob's lap when he was little listening to him talk about his time in Vietnam in the Marine Corps.

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Jean-Pierre Gauthier (b. 6-21-1892) @ Saint-Ignace-du-Lac, Quebec, Canada (dec. 9-1-1962)
Stella (nee Lebrun) Gauthier (b. 3-14-1899) Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada (dec. 11-5-1983)

Jean-Pierre & Stella's families relocated to the Concord, NH area in 1905 and 1910 respectively. They met around the time of The Great War, fell in love, and married in 1920.

Children of Jean-Pierre & Stella
	Alexandre b. 1-12-1921 in Concord, NH (USA) dec. 9-11-2001
	Claire b. 11-26-1922 in Concord, NH dec. 3-19-2005
	Maurice b. 4-3-1924 in Concord, NH dec. 6-6-1944 Normandy, France USA
	William b. 8-7-1925 in Concord, NH dec. 11-20-43 Gilbert Islands USMC
	Barbara, b. 12-10-1927 in Concord, NH dec. 12-10-1927


Alexandre Gauthier is Jacob Gauthier's Grandfather. His Aunt Claire have lost contact with the family. Jacob does not know what happened to her. His uncles Maurice and William both died during World War II, one in the Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO) and the other in the European Theater of Operations (ETO).

Alexandre Gauthier, (b. 1-12-21) in Concord, NH (dec. 9-11-2001)
m. Olivia (nee Belanger) Gauthier (9-15-23) in Concord, NH (dec. 12-9-2009)


Alexandre met Olivia Belanger during the 1940s. Alexandre was not medically qualified to be drafted into the military. He felt shame for his physical irregularity but settled himself to help out in their hometown of Concord, NH. Alexandre and Olivia were married in 1943. They had three children.

Children of Alexandre & Olivia
	Jean, b. 1-2-1944 in Concord, NH
	Robert, b. 6-10-1951 in Concord, NH
	William b. 11-21-54 in Concord, NH



William's Sister Jean lived in Concord and married Donald McNamara in the 1960s.

Jean (Gauthier) McNamara (1-2-1944)
Uncle Donald “Donnie” McNamara (7-17-1941)


Children/Grandchildren to Donnie & Jean
		Caroline (McNamara) Zewinski, 55 in Nashua, NH
		Leonard “Lennie” McNamara, 52 in Nashua

		Caroline (McNamara) Zewinski
		Dana Zewinski, 58 Nashua
			Jesse, 30
			Cynthia, 28
			Lynne, 27
			Michael, 25
			Alice, 22

		Leonard “Lennie” McNamara, 52 in Nashua
		Katherine “Kate” (Flynn) McNamara, 46 in Nashua
			Robin, 27
			Rachel, 27
			Tyler, 24

William's Brother Bob also lived in Concord, NH. Bob Gauthier served in the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. He survived, returning home to marry Monique Bouchard, and had two daughters.

Robert Gauthier, b. 6-10-1951 in Concord, NH
Monique (Bouchard) Gauthier, b. 2-14-54 in Concord, NH


Children/Grandchildren of Bob and Monique
		Martha, 45 in Concord, NH
		Danielle, 42 in Concord, NH

		Martha Gauthier married Tom Maroni and moved to Boston, MA. Tom Maroni is/was a surgeon at Mass General Hospital.

		Martha (Gauthier) Maroni, 45 in Boston, MA
		Tom Maroni, 46 in Boston, MA
			Sissy, 18
			Anthony, 17

		Danielle Gauthier married Marcus Cortland and moved to Lowell, MA. Marcus is employed in the Tech field.

		Danielle (Gauthier) Cortland, 42 in Lowell, MA
		Marcus Cortland, 42, in Lowell, MA
			Glenn, 17
			Philip, 15
			Margaret, 11

William Gauthier, (11-21-54)
m. Betty (Carter) Gauthier (12-10-56)


William & Betty are Jacob's parents and live in Concord, NH. William & Betty had four children. Jacob and John are twin brothers.

Children/grandchildren of William and Betty Gauthier of Concord, NH
	Leslie, b. 3-2-1979 in Concord, NH
	Jacob, b. 5-5-1981 in Concord, NH
	John, b. 5-5-1981 in Concord, NH
	Clarice, b. 2-29-1984 in Concord, NH

Jake’s siblings and their families:


Leslie married Ed Welcome, a professor at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH. They have three children. the oldest son, Norman is an illegitimate child Leslie had when she was 18 years old. Edward Welcome has raised him as his own son.

		Leslie (Gauthier) Welcome, 45 in Durham, NH (sister)
		Edward Welcome, 47 in Durham, NH
			Norman, 27 (illegitimate birth)
			Grace, 20
			Adam, 18

Jake's twin brother John married Lisa Kennedy from Concord. They own a service station in the state's capital. John is very good at fixing things.

		John Gauthier, 43 in Concord, NH (twin brother)
		Lisa (Kennedy) Gauthier, 40
			Stella, 12
			Penelope, 10

Jake's youngest sister, Clarice married George Allen from Concord, NH. George is employed as a New Hampshire State Police Officer. The couple have five children and were currently separated at the time of the zombie apocalypse, but George returned to his family to ensure they were safe.

		Clarice (Gauthier) Allen, 40 in Concord, NH (sister)
		George Allen, 44
			Pamela, 15
			Jackson, 11
			Marylin, 9
			Nicholas, 7
			Boden, 5

Jacob Gauthier, (5-5-81)
m. Helen (Mansen) Gauthier (7-4-81)

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