Gene Sidore, 87, of Hollis, NH, handed away on October 9, 2025, after a interval of declining well being. Gene was formed unmistakably by the household he was born into, with its legacy of sharp mind, biting wit, exhausting work, and super achievement. Yet as Gene would say, “what you need to understand” is that he outlined himself most totally by way of the household he selected to create along with his spouse Linda and the three sons they nurtured with love and compassion.
Born Eugene Sidore on June 24, 1938, within the Bronx, he was one in every of 5 youngsters of the late Saul O. and May (Blum) Sidore, homeowners of the Pandora sweater manufacturing facility in Manchester. After graduating from the Woodstock School in Vermont and the University of New Hampshire, Gene started a different skilled profession that included an administrative position on the U.S. Postal Service and in gross sales for his household’s enterprise and elsewhere. Most remarkably, he retrained in his late 30s to turn into a programmer and database administrator in the course of the infancy of private computing, a subject wherein he labored till retiring from Geac Computer Corporation.
If his skilled life was multifaceted, Gene’s private life was one in every of deep and secure devotion. He was married for over 50 years to the late Linda (Cohen) Sidore and leaves behind a second spouse, Ellen Scocca-Sanchez. He is survived by three sons from his first marriage and their households: David and his spouse Nicole of State College, PA, with their son Benjamin; Michael and his spouse Jesset of Oakland, CA, with their son Austin; and Steven and his spouse Paula of Bad Honnef, Germany, with their sons Dante, Sebastian, and Tillman. He can also be mourned by his surviving siblings Sara Mae, Ralph, and Micala, and was predeceased by his sister Rebecca in 1994.
Beyond an abiding love for winter sports activities, classical music, and science fiction, Gene was deeply captivated with politics. For all his robust opinions on nationwide affairs, his actions targeted largely on the native. He served for over fifty years in a basis devoted to charitable giving to native organizations, however thought-about it an excellent better honor to be concerned with New Hampshire’s fabled direct democracy. For many years, he was a well-recognized presence at city conferences, persuasively arguing for or in opposition to native initiatives. Education, specifically, was of putting up with significance to him, and he expressed immense satisfaction that his sons and their wives all maintain superior levels.
Gene handed away at St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua and was interred on the Hebrew Cemetery of Manchester in a non-public ceremony. An open memorial service will probably be held at 1 pm on Sunday, November 23, on the Lawrence Barn Community Center, 28 Depot Road, Hollis, NH. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his title to the Hollis Social Library, the place he was a loyal and appreciative patron for over 4 many years.